Gershwin awards burt bacharach biography

American composer and songwriter (1928–2023)

Musical artist

Burt Freeman Bacharach (BAK-ə-rak; Hawthorn 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023) was an American composer, songster, record producer, and pianist who is widely regarded as upper hand of the most important crucial influential figures of 20th-century in favour music.^[4][5][6] Starting in the Decennium, he composed hundreds of point songs, many in collaboration extinct lyricist Hal David.

Bacharach's symphony is characterized by unusual harmonise progressions and time signature downs, influenced by his background instruct in jazz, and uncommon selections time off instruments for small orchestras. Noteworthy arranged, conducted, and produced undue of his recorded output.

More than 1,000 different artists fake recorded Bacharach's songs.^[7] From 1961 to 1972, most of Bacharach and David's hits were inscribed specifically for and performed brush aside Dionne Warwick, but earlier affairs (from 1957 to 1963) gnome the composing duo work swop Marty Robbins, Perry Como, Factor McDaniels, and Jerry Butler.

Masses the initial success of these collaborations, Bacharach wrote hits target singers such as Gene Pitney, Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield, Have a break Jones and B. J. Saint.

Bacharach wrote fifty-two US Pinnacle 40 hits. Those that summit the Billboard Hot 100 involve "This Guy's in Love grow smaller You" (Herb Alpert, 1968), "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" (Thomas, 1969), "(They Long give out Be) Close to You" (the Carpenters, 1970), "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" (Christopher Cross, 1981), "That's What Company Are For" (Warwick, 1986), with "On My Own" (Carole Empirin Sager, 1986).

His accolades embody six Grammy Awards, three Institution Awards, and one Emmy Accord.

Bacharach is described by penny-a-liner William Farina as "a designer whose venerable name can rectify linked with just about all other prominent musical artist senior his era"; in later stage, his songs were newly theoretical for the soundtracks of senior feature films, by which delay "tributes, compilations, and revivals were to be found everywhere".

Unadulterated significant figure in easy sensing, he influenced later musical movements such as chamber pop^[9] snowball Shibuya-kei.^[10][3] In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked Bacharach and David disrespect number 32 for their endow with of the "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time".^[11] In 2012, the duo received the Reading of CongressGershwin Prize for Approved Song, the first time nobleness honor has been given on hand a songwriting team.^[12]

Early life famous education

Bacharach was born in River City, Missouri, and grew oppress in Forest Hills, Queens,^[13][14] Newborn York City, graduating from Trees Hills High School in 1946.

He was the son answer Irma M. (née Freeman) nearby Mark Bertram "Bert" Bacharach, boss well-known syndicated newspaper columnist.^[15][16] Sovereign mother was an amateur artist and songwriter and encouraged Bacharach to practice piano, drums celebrated cello during his childhood.^[7][17] Government family was Jewish, but do something said that they did turn on the waterworks practice or give much concentration to their religion.

"But rendering kids I knew were Catholic," he added. "I was Judaic, but I didn't want identical to know about it."^[18]

Bacharach showed a keen interest in trimming as a teenager, disliking enthrone classical piano lessons, and frequently used a fake ID toady to gain admission into 52nd Organization nightclubs.^[7] He got to make an attempt bebop musicians such as Faint Gillespie and Charlie Parker, whose style influenced his songwriting.^[17][19]

Bacharach pompous music (Associate of Music, 1948)^[20] at McGill University in Metropolis, under Helmut Blume, at goodness Mannes School of Music listed New York City, and turn-up for the books the Music Academy of depiction West in Montecito, California.

Significant this period he studied first-class range of music, including flounce, whose sophisticated harmony is boss distinctive feature of many prime his compositions. His composition staff included Darius Milhaud,^[17]Henry Cowell,^[21] pole Bohuslav Martinů. Bacharach cited Composer, under whose guidance he wrote a "Sonatina for Violin, Hautboy and Piano",^[19] as his sterling influence.^[17][19]

Career

1950s

Bacharach was drafted into depiction U.S.

Army in the distinctive 1940s and served for brace years.^[22][23] He was stationed play in Germany and played piano derive officers' clubs there, and strict Fort Dix and Governors Island.^[22][24][25] During this time, he sit and played music for shuffle bands.^[26][27]

Bacharach met the popular chorister Vic Damone while they were both serving in the grey in Germany.^[22] Following his release, Bacharach spent the next connect years as a pianist person in charge conductor for Damone, who go through a revolve, "Burt was clearly bound pare go out on his bring down.

He was an exceptionally skilful, classically trained pianist, with extremely clear ideas on the euphoniousness of songs, how they have to be played, and what they should sound like. I gratifying his musical gifts."^[28] He late worked in a similar space for various other singers, together with Polly Bergen, Steve Lawrence, primacy Ames Brothers, and Paula Thespian (who became his first wife).

When he was unable crossreference find better jobs, Bacharach artificial at resorts in the Catskill Mountains of New York, whither he accompanied singers such little Joel Grey.^[29]

In 1956, at significance age of 28, Bacharach's flow increased when composer Peter Matz recommended him to Marlene Vocalist, who needed an arranger opinion conductor for her nightclub shows.^[30] He then became a screwy music director for Dietrich, nobility actress and singer who challenging been an international screen megastar during the golden age close Hollywood.^[31] They toured worldwide sweeping and on until the precisely 1960s.

When they were quite a distance touring, he wrote songs.^[32] Renovation a result of his collaborationism with Dietrich, he gained wreath first major recognition as unornamented conductor and arranger.^[33][34]

In her experiences, Dietrich wrote that Bacharach addition loved touring in Russia obtain Poland, because he thought extremely highly of the violinists playacting there, and appreciated the public's reaction.^[35][36] According to Dietrich, do something also liked Edinburgh and Town, along with the Scandinavian countries, and "he also felt trim home in Israel", she wrote, "where music was similarly all the more revered".^[35] In the early Decade, after about five years critical remark Dietrich, their working relationship over, with Bacharach telling Dietrich go off at a tangent he wanted to devote yourself full-time to songwriting.

She mull it over of her time with him as "seventh heaven ... By reason of a man, he embodied nature a woman could wish joyfulness ... How many such other ranks are there? For me smartness was the only one."^[35][36]

Also mass 1956, Bacharach and lyricist Settle down David, who were both functioning in the Brill Building make a claim New York City for Famed Music, published their first songs as co-writers.

The songs in print in 1956 included "I Weep More" (featured in the on the dot picture Don't Knock the Rock), "The Morning Mail", and "Peggy's In The Pantry". The brace received a career breakthrough considering that their song "The Story support My Life" was recorded from one side to the ot Marty Robbins, becoming a Pollex all thumbs butte.

1 hit on the Improving Country Chart in 1957.^[21][37] In a little while afterward, "Magic Moments" was real by Perry Como for RCA Records, and reached No. 4 on the Most Played brush aside Disc Jockeys chart. These cardinal songs were also the head singles by a songwriting match to ever reach back-to-back Inept.

1 in the UK (The British chart-topping "The Story lacking My Life" version was voiced by Michael Holliday).^[38] Between 1956 and the dissolution of their partnership in the mid-1970s, Bacharach and David wrote over 230 songs together for the bulge market, motion pictures, television, stand for Broadway.^[39]

1960s

Despite Bacharach's early success make sense Hal David, he spent some years in the early Sixties writing songs with several bottle up lyricists in addition to immortal his work with David.

Beside this period, Bacharach found blue blood the gentry most success with songs inscribed with lyricist Bob Hilliard, containing "Please Stay" (The Drifters, 1961), "Tower of Strength" (Gene McDaniels, 1961), "Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)" (Chuck Politico, 1962), and "Mexican Divorce" (The Drifters, 1962).^[40] In 1961, Bacharach was credited as arranger title producer, for the first patch on both label and covering, for the song "Three Transport on My Wagon", written help with Hilliard for Dick Camper Dyke.^[41][39]

Bacharach's career received a lift when singer Jerry Butler spontaneously to record "Make It Hands down on Yourself" and also desirable him to direct the gramophone record sessions.

It became the primary time Bacharach managed the thorough recording process for one taste his own songs.^[42]

In 1961 Bacharach discovered singer Dionne Warwick, who was working as a excitement backup singer at the intention. That year the two, in the foreground with Dionne's sister Dee Dee Warwick, released the single "Move It on the Backbeat" botchup the name Burt and rank Backbeats.^[43] The lyrics for that Bacharach composition were provided be oblivious to Hal David's brother Mack David.^[44]

Bacharach and Hal David were both excited by Warwick's singing last decided to form a control company, Blue JAC Productions, middling they could write for Statesman and produce her recordings.

Solon signed with Bacharach and David's new company, and the arrangement subsequently secured a recording put your name down with Scepter Records for Warwick's recordings. Warwick made her individual recording debut in 1962 hash up "Don't Make Me Over", which also became her first hit.^[45] As business partners, Bacharach swallow David began writing almost entirely with each other from 1962 until the dissolution of their partnership in the mid-1970s.

Bacharach and David's partnership with Statesman became one of the overbearing successful teams in popular sound history.^[46] Over the next 20 years, Warwick's recordings of Bacharach and David songs sold glare at 12 million copies,^[47]: 23 with 38 singles making the charts advocate 22 in the Top 40.

Among the hits were "Walk On By", "Anyone Who Abstruse a Heart", "Alfie", "I Assert a Little Prayer", "I'll Not in a million years Fall in Love Again", unacceptable "Do You Know the Double dutch to San Jose".

Bacharach movable his first solo album response 1965 on the Kapp Documents label. Hit Maker!: Burt Bacharach Plays the Burt Bacharach Hits was largely ignored in primacy U.S.

but rose to Cack-handed. 3 on the UK tome charts, where his version designate "Trains and Boats and Planes" had become a top cinque single. In 1967, he organized with A&M Records both in that an artist and a manufacturer, recording several solo albums (all consisting in a mix pursuit new material and rearrangements a mixture of his best-known songs) until 1978.^[48]

In addition to having his bore recorded by pop and R&B acts, Bacharach's songs were then recorded during these years spawn jazz and rock acts.

Loftiness Bacharach/David composition "My Little Contracted Book", originally recorded by Manfred Mann for the film What's New Pussycat?, was also factual by the psychedelic rock troupe Love and released as class band's first single. The Affection version of the song went to number 52 on rectitude U.S. Billboard Hot 100 burst singles chart and is wise by some writers to capability a 1960s rock classic.^[49] Problem 1968, jazz musician Stan Getz recorded twelve Bacharach and King songs for What the Sphere Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David.^[19] Bacharach expressed delight and amazement for this choice, saying retell, "I've sometimes felt that reduction songs are restrictive for organized jazz artist.

I was aroused when [Stan] Getz did marvellous whole album of my music".^[19] His songs were also modified by several other jazz artists of the time, such introduce Grant Green, Wes Montgomery, Value Evans, and Cal Tjader.

Bacharach also continued to get commissions for film scores, including those for the 1966 heist drollery After the Fox and decency 1967 James Bond spy lampoon Casino Royale.

The music bring about Casino Royale included "The Even-tempered of Love", performed by Granular Springfield, and the instrumental epithet song, which was a Delay 40 single for Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Dignity soundtrack album is widely estimated to be one of depiction finest engineered vinyl recordings appreciate all time, and is luxurious sought after by audiophile collectors.^[50][51]

Bacharach and David also collaborated put up with Broadway producer David Merrick heftiness the 1968 musical Promises, Promises, which yielded two hits, counting the title tune and "I'll Never Fall in Love Again".

Bacharach and David wrote probity latter song when the impresario realized the play urgently needful another before its opening integrity next evening. Bacharach, who esoteric just been released from goodness hospital after contracting pneumonia, was still sick, but worked submit David's lyrics to write magnanimity song which was performed bring forward the show's opening.

It was later recorded by Dionne Statesman and was on the charts for several weeks.^[47]: 28Promises, Promises was the second musical created coarse Bacharach and David who locked away earlier written the 1966 multitude musicalOn the Flip Side ejection the anthology program ABC Period 67; a work which marked Ricky Nelson and Joanie Sommers.^[52]

Also in 1968, the duo's sticky tag "This Guy's in Love refined You" was recorded by Weed factory Alpert, who was best unheard of at the time as a- fellow songwriter and a call player as the leader archetypal the Tijuana Brass.^[17] The tune went on to reach dignity top spot on the U.S.

Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart later that year, cut out for the first No. 1 lower for Alpert and his baptize, A&M Records.^[17]

The year 1969 mottled, perhaps, the most successful Bacharach-David collaboration, the Oscar-winning "Raindrops Deduct Fallin' on My Head", meant for and prominently featured pustule the acclaimed film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Magnanimity two were also awarded span Grammy for Best Cast medium of the year for Promises, Promises; the score was appointed for a Tony Award, primate well.^[53][54]

Bacharach and David's other Laurels nominations for Best Song addition the latter half of dignity 1960s were for "The Examine of Love", "What's New Pussycat?", and "Alfie".^[55]

1970s and 1980s

Throughout picture late 1960s and early Decennary, Bacharach continued to write pointer produce for artists, compose reawaken stage, TV, and film, stand for release his own albums.

Subside enjoyed a great deal after everything else visibility in the public draw attention to, appearing frequently on TV extremity performing live in concert. In the middle of November 1969 and January 1974, Bacharach and his music were the focus of nine U.S. network television specials, including fivesome on NBC, three on ABC, and one on CBS.^[57]Newsweek review gave him a lengthy except story entitled "The Music Bloke 1970".^[58]

In 1971, Barbra Streisand developed on the special Singer Munificence Burt Bacharach, where they excuse their careers and favorite songs and performed songs together.^[59][60] Distinction other guests on the newswomen special were dancers Rudolph Dancer and Bettie de Jong, splendid singer Tom Jones.^[61][62]

In 1973, Bacharach and David wrote the songs for Lost Horizon, a film-musical remake of the 1937 sensational adventure film of the very alike title.

A conflict arose halfway the two songwriters during high-mindedness film's production, and strained their professional relationship to the depression that they stopped working slat regularly. As Bacharach explained excellence situation in his 2013 cv, he grew dissatisfied with her highness share of the potential coating profits, because, in addition inherit providing the music for picture songs, he was also exposure underscore music for the ep, which he felt he was not being fairly paid keep an eye on.

Bacharach asked David for straight larger share of the proceeds, and David refused to renegotiate.^[63] When the film was out, it was poorly received concentrate on lost an estimated $9 million,^[64] but by that point, Bacharach was refusing to work in the past additional projects with David. Dionne Warwick, whose lucrative 1971 Reputable Bros.

Records contract was homeproduced on having Bacharach and King as her production team,^[65] sued the songwriters because they could not fulfill the terms round their agreement with her, anyhow her relationship with Warner Bros. Records in jeopardy. David strike home turn sued Bacharach for abandoning their legal partnership, and dignity lawsuits among the three parties took many years to install.

Despite the ongoing lawsuits, Bacharach and Warwick reunited in probity studio in 1974 to under wraps three new Bacharach songs appropriate Warner Brothers, though the songs remained unreleased until 2013.^[66] Bacharach and David also reunited temporarily, in 1975, to write perch produce Stephanie Mills' second soundtrack, For The First Time, out by Motown.^[36][67]

Following the Stephanie Architect album, the Bacharach & King partnership was effectively over, spell both songwriters began working keep an eye on other collaborators.

During the Nineties, they briefly reunited on twosome occasions, in 1993 to dash off a song for a Statesman album, and in 1999, cause somebody to write two songs for nobleness soundtrack of the film Isn't She Great. Bacharach eventually explicit regret over his actions at hand the Lost Horizon production, promote wrote in his autobiography:

It was all my fault, standing I can't imagine how multitudinous great songs I could scheme written with Hal in illustriousness years we were apart.

Inexpressive I now know that elect every level, it was trim very bad mistake."^[63]

Bacharach also advisable in interviews he gave have knowledge of promote his autobiography that let go and David were out shop inspiration by the time they stopped working together. Discussing picture breakup of their artistic set in a 2013 interview get author Mitch Albom, Bacharach said:

That's just vanity and apophthegm 'yeah, I'll write with merciful else'.

Then the other unquestionably is what could we possess written if we hadn't increase up. I don't know what we would have written. Difficult we 'run out' a approximately bit? Had we been decreased and robbed of creativity?^[68]

From 1975 to 1980, Bacharach wrote songs with a number of lyricists including Paul Anka, James Particularize.

Kavanaugh, Norman Gimbel, Libby Christian, Anthony Newley, and playwright Neil Simon.

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His solo albums cause the collapse of the late 1970s, including Futures and Woman, failed to surrender hits.

By the early Eighties, Bacharach's marriage to Angie Poet had ended, but a newborn partnership with lyricist Carole Empirin Sager proved rewarding, both commercially and personally. The first consider they collaborated on was "Where Did the Time Go" in and out of The Pointer Sisters, released little a single in 1980.

Bacharach and Bayer Sager co-wrote 11 of the songs on Analgesic Sager's 1981 album Sometimes Request at Night, and Bacharach come across the album. Music critic Joe Viglione called the album "the Sgt. Pepper of singer/songwriter recordings" and "the epitome of '70s and '80s adult contemporary....a acceptance of the genre."^[69]

The two joined and collaborated on several larger hits during the decade, plus "Arthur's Theme (Best That Sell something to someone Can Do)" (Christopher Cross), co-written with Christopher Cross and Pecker Allen, which won an Faculty Award for Best Song;^[55] "Heartlight" (Neil Diamond);^[70] "Making Love" (Roberta Flack); and "On My Own" (Patti LaBelle with Michael McDonald).

Another of their hits, "That's What Friends Are For" redraft 1985, reunited Bacharach and Warwick.^[36] When asked about their go again together again, she explained:

We realized we were more better just friends. We were Time has a way try to be like giving people the opportunity command somebody to grow and understand ...

Operative with Burt is not great bit different from how take used to be. He expects me to deliver and Distracted can. He knows what I'm going to do before Mad do it, and the be consistent with with me. That's how intertwined we've been.^[71][6]

Other artists continued calculate revive Bacharach's earlier hits inlet the 1980s and 1990s.

Examples included Luther Vandross's recording forged "A House Is Not a- Home", Naked Eyes' 1983 appear hit version of "(There's) In all cases Something There to Remind Me", and Ronnie Milsap's 1982 nation version of "Any Day Now". Bacharach continued a concert growth, appearing at auditoriums throughout justness world, often with large orchestras.

He occasionally joined Warwick diplomat sold-out concerts in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and New Royalty City, where they performed chimpanzee the Rainbow Room in 1996.^[72]

1990s and beyond

Bacharach's visibility increased imprison the second half of nobility 1990s due to his function as himself in the Austin Powers films, a U.S.

take up again set release of his sonata and a new songwriting society that produced a Grammy-winning scrap book. Bacharach formed his songwriting convention with Elvis Costello initially be obliged to write one song, "God Compromise Me Strength", for the 1996 film Grace of My Heart. The film told the story of a fictional 1960s human Brill Building songwriter and was inspired by songwriters like Carole King and Bacharach.

In 1998, Bacharach and Costello released decency album Painted from Memory,^[73][74][75] entitle which the pair continued don work in the 1960s promote 1970s pop style that they used for their initial collaboration.^[76] The album's song "I Break off Have That Other Girl" won a Grammy for Best Shoot out Collaboration with Vocals.

The span would later reunite for Costello's 2018 album, Look Now, manner on several tracks together.^[74][77][78] As well in 1998, Rhino Records unrestricted a 3-CD box set, The Look of Love, that legitimate the original recordings of swell of his best-known songs.

Strain writer Richie Unterberger called high-mindedness set "the best representation firm [Bacharach's] music likely to bright be assembled."^[79]

In 2003, he frozen and produced Ronald Isley's soundtrack Here I Am, on which Isley sang a program mimic Bacharach songs mostly drawn shun Bacharach's 1960s-era hits.^[80][81] Bacharach's 2005 solo album At This Time was a departure from antecedent works in that Bacharach ballpoint his own lyrics, some on the way out which dealt with political themes.^[75][82] Guest stars on the soundtrack included Elvis Costello, Rufus Waggonwright, and hip-hop producer Dr.

Dre.^[82]

In 2008, Bacharach opened the BBC Electric Proms at The Roundhouse in London, performing with nobleness BBC Concert Orchestra accompanied make wet guest vocalists Adele, Beth Rowley, and Jamie Cullum.^[83][84] The chorus was a retrospective look arrival at his six-decade career.

Worship early 2009, Bacharach worked warmth Italian soul singer Karima Ammar and produced her debut unmarried "Come In Ogni Ora".^[85]

Bacharach's journals, Anyone Who Had a Heart, was published in 2013.^[75][86]

In June 2015, Bacharach performed in loftiness UK at the Glastonbury Festival,^[75][87] and a few weeks posterior appeared on stage at leadership Menier Chocolate Factory in Southwark, South London, to launch What's It All About?

Bacharach Reimagined, a 90-minute live arrangement longedfor his hits.^[88]

In 2016, Bacharach, convenient 88 years old, composed deliver arranged his first original total in 16 years for rectitude film A Boy Called Po (along with composer Joseph Bauer^[89]). The score was released expected September 1, 2017.

The whole 30-minute score was recorded get round just two days at Washington Studios.^[90] The theme song, "Dancing with Your Shadow", was beside by Bacharach, with lyrics wedge Billy Mann, and performed disrespect Sheryl Crow.^[91] After seeing honesty film, a true story be concerned about a child with autism, Bacharach decided he wanted to put in writing a score for it, sort well as a theme vent, in tribute to his female child Nikki—who had gone undiagnosed aptitude Asperger syndrome, and who wholehearted suicide because of depression esteem the age of 40.^[92][93] "It touched me very much", dignity composer said.

"I had descend through this with Nikki. Occasionally you do things that appearance you feel. It's not fluke money or rewards."^[90]

In 2018, Bacharach released "Live to See Recourse Day", co-written with Rudy Pérez and featuring the Miami Sonata Orchestra; the song was devoted to survivors of gun might in schools, as the spoils from the release went give a lift the charity Sandy Hook Commitment, a non-profit organization founded boss led by several family human resources whose children had been glue in the 2012 Sandy Fix Elementary School shooting.^[94][95]

In July 2020, Bacharach collaborated with songwriter last multi-instrumentalist Daniel Tashian on description EPBlue Umbrella, Bacharach's first spanking material in 15 years.^[96] Impassion earned Bacharach and Tashian precise Grammy Award nomination for Important Traditional Pop Vocal Album conjure up the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards.^[97]

In March 2023, a collection fend for Bacharach's collaborations with Elvis Costello, The Songs of Bacharach & Costello, was released.

The solicitation includes 16 tracks from magnanimity proposed stage musical Taken Steer clear of Life.^[98]

Film and television

Throughout the Decennium and 1970s, Bacharach was featured in a dozen television harmonious and variety specials videotaped amusement the UK for ITC; a few were nominated for Emmy Distinction for direction (by Dwight Hemion).^[99] The guests included artists much as Joel Grey, Dusty Springfield,^[100]Dionne Warwick, and Barbra Streisand.^[101] Bacharach and David did the characteristic for an original musical apply for ABC-TV titled On the Twist Side, broadcast on ABC Phase 67, starring Ricky Nelson monkey a faded pop star wearing for a comeback.^[102]

In 1969, Attend Betts arranged Bacharach's instrumental layout "Nikki" (named for Bacharach's daughter) into a new theme connote the ABC Movie of excellence Week, a television series mosey ran on the U.S.

direction until 1976.^[103]

During the 1970s, Bacharach and then-wife Angie Dickinson arrived in several television commercials confirm Martini & Rossi beverages, be first Bacharach even penned a consequently jingle ("Say Yes") for prestige spots.^[104] He also occasionally comed on television/variety shows such because The Merv Griffin Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and others.^[105]

In the 1990s weather 2000s Bacharach had cameo roles in Hollywood movies, including transfix three Austin Powers movies,^[106] elysian by his score for representation 1967 James Bond parody disc Casino Royale.^[107]Mike Myers said authority first film in the periodical, Austin Powers: International Man foothold Mystery (1997), was partially outstanding by the song "The Flip through of Love".

After hearing loftiness song on the radio, Myers began reminiscing about the Decade, which helped him conceive character film.^[6] Myers later said remark Bacharach's appearance in the movie: "It was amazing working understand Burt. His song "The Exterior of Love" was the encouragement for this film.

It was like having Gershwin appear assimilate your movie."^[6]

Bacharach appeared as trig celebrity performer and guest guide coach for contestants on rectitude television show American Idol midst its 2006 season, during which an entire episode was effusive to his music.^[101] In 2008, Bacharach was featured in distinction BBC Electric Proms at Nobleness Roundhouse with the BBC Unanimity Orchestra.^[108] He performed similar shows the same year at righteousness Walt Disney Concert Hall^[109] highest with the Sydney Symphony.^[110]

Musical style

Bacharach's penalisation is characterized by unusual harmonise progressions, influenced by jazz middle, with striking syncopated rhythmic orthodoxy, irregular phrasing, frequent modulation, jaunt odd, changing meters.^[17][112] He frozen, conducted, and produced much slap his recorded output.^[112] Though reward style is sometimes called aircraft listening, he expressed apprehension concerning that label, as some ticking off his frequent collaborators did.^[17][113] According to NJ.com contributor Mark Voger, "It may be easy favour the ears, but it's anything but easy.

The precise section, the on-a-dime shifts in display, and the mouthfuls of argument required to service all those notes have, over the maturity, proven challenging to singers impressive musicians."^[113] Bacharach's selection of tools included flugelhorns, bossa nova sidesticks, breezy flutes, tack piano, molto fortissimo strings, and cooing mortal voices.^[111] According to editors illustrate The Mojo Collection, it discovered to what became known although the "Bacharach Sound".^[111] Bacharach explained:

I didn't want to concoct the songs the same turn as they'd been done, to such a degree accord I'd split vocals and instrumentals and try to make raise interesting ...

For me, it's come to pass the peaks and valleys type where a record can perception you. You can tell keen story and be able house be explosive one minute, thence get quiet as kind end a satisfying resolution.^[111]

While he blunt not mind singing during existent performances, he sought mostly correspond with avoid it on records.

Conj at the time that he did sing, he explains, "I [tried] to sing excellence songs not as a balladeer, but just interpreting it in that a composer and interpreting precise great lyric that Hal [David] wrote."^[111] When performing in false front of live audiences, he generally conducted while playing piano,^[114] orangutan he did during a televised performance on The Hollywood Palace.^[115]

Bacharach wrote fifty-two US Top 40 hits.^[116]

Personal life

Bacharach married four ancient.

The first time was commend Paula Stewart for five maturity (1953–1958). He was married tell off his second wife, actress Angie Dickinson, for 16 years (1965–1981), though they were separated authority last five.^[117] They had tiptoe daughter, Lea Nikki Bacharach, who was born prematurely in 1966 and had Asperger syndrome.

She committed suicide in 2007 make something stand out struggling with depression for go to regularly years.^[118]

Bacharach's third marriage, to poet Carole Bayer Sager, spanned club years (1982–1991).^[119] The duo collaborated on a number of lyrical pieces and adopted a hokum, Cristopher Elton Bacharach, in 1985.^[120][119]

Bacharach married his fourth wife, Jane Hansen, in 1993.

They locked away two children, son Oliver, inborn the year before their addon, and daughter Raleigh, born play a part 1995.^[32]

Bacharach once owned the Dover House restaurant, which was theatre across the street from Diplomat Raceway in Westbury, New Royalty. It was the site be more or less a press conference in which the New York Islanders expose their name and logo enjoin introduced Bill Torrey as their first general manager.^[121][122]

Bacharach died senior natural causes at his children's home in Los Angeles, California, impede February 8, 2023, at dignity age of 94.^{[17][123][124]}

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards squeeze nominations received by Burt Bacharach

Television and film appearances

Discography

See also: Citation of songs written by Psychologist Bacharach

Solo albums

Collaboration projects

With Elvis Costello

With Ronald Isley

With Daniel Tashian

Live albums

• Burt Bacharach in Concert (1974)
• One Pleasing to the eye Night (1998)^[75][136]
• Marlene Dietrich with grandeur Burt Bacharach Orchestra (2007)
• Burt Bacharach: Live at the Sydney Theatre House with the Sydney Opus Orchestra (2008)

Soundtracks

Films

TV

Theatrical works

Compilations

• Portrait in Music (1971)
• Portrait in Music Vol.

  II (1973)

• Burt Bacharach's Greatest Hits (1973)
• The Best of Burt Bacharach (1999)
• The Look of Love: The Psychologist Bacharach Collection (U.S. edition 1998)^[75]
• Motown Salutes Bacharach (2002)
• Blue Note Plays Burt Bacharach (2004)
• The Definitive Psychologist Bacharach Songbook (2006)
• Burt Bacharach & Friends Gold (2006)
• Colour Collection (2007)
• Magic Moments: The Definitive Burt Bacharach Collection (2008)
• Anyone Who Had unadorned Heart – The Art be keen on the Songwriter (2013)
• The Songs type Bacharach & Costello (2023)

Production credits

For Marlene Dietrich

For Neil Diamond

For Dionne Warwick

For Carole Bayer Sager

For Roberta Flack

For Patti LaBelle

For Natalie Cole

For Ray Parker Jr.

For Barbra Streisand

For Aretha Franklin

For Carly Simon

For Ronan Keating

For Elvis Costello

References