Less Common Burt Series
For Parts 1-6, please copy and paste link below (or highlight and right-click on "Go To"):https://musicyouwont.blogspot.com/search?q=less+common+burt.
Sheila Southern
DOWNLOAD: Sheila Southern--The Burt Bacharach Songbook, 1969
Longines Symphonette
DOWNLOAD: Close to You--The Longines Symphonette and the Symphonette Choraliers (1972)
Lee
16 comments:
Burt was one of the greats - your compilations are just about the best tributes imaginable.
When I heard the news this morning, I was wondering if you were going to round up all of your Burt-related links in one post. I am eventually going to get back to the Sheila Southern one that you posted before the holidays as well as give you new comments on your last Ray Ellis post--I had a review already to be posted yet was rejected because it exceeded the comment word limit!! It is a mixed bag, that is for sure, kind of on the fence. Looking forward to plumbing the depths of your Bacharach archive. Thanks.
Buster,
Thanks for the kind words! There are few blog duties I've enjoyed more than presenting Burt.
musicman1979,
I didn't realize there a comment word limit! Sorry your review got zapped. Would still love to read a truncated version, even if you weren't crazy about the LP. Enjoy the Burt.
Great! Goodbye to King of Kings!
Sorry to hear about the passing of Burt, but glad to see the return of your phenomenal collections highlighting his backstory. There's more to him than Dionne Warwick, Lost Horizons, Elvis Costello and Austin Powers. Thanks!
Thanks, gimpiero and Ernie!
Direct downloads are great. But reading your commentary is even better! Here's a link so others can read your scholarship as well as listen -- https://musicyouwont.blogspot.com/search?q=less+common+burt.
And thanks again!
Diane,
Wow--that works fine! And, in my haste, I guess I thought only to link to the zip files, when, had I given it more thought, I would have linked to the entire posts. Thanks so much.
I am planning to do a new review for the Ray Eliis album eventually. There were some good songs on it, yet some of the tunes were a real mixed bag. A couple of the tunes on the Ellis album were done in the Billy Vaughn style to my ears.
I have all of Petula Clark's Warner Bros. albums. So far, the only other Bacharach cut from her peak '60's Golden Era is the gender-changed "This Girl's in Love with You" on the 1968 LP Petula (known to some of her fans as the Pink Album). This LP is headlined by two of my all-time favorite hits from her, "Don't Give Up" and "Kiss Me Goodbye." Still have to check my copies of I Know A Place, My Love, and These Are My Songs to see if there are any other Bacharach tunes, she covered. At least you now have another one to add to the collection, if you haven't already found one--My present copy is not in the best of shape, and I have had it since 2001! Hopefully, I will find a better copy really soon.
I love Petula! Thanks, musician1979, for reminding me to play her records again.
I think there's a track missing here. Didn't you share "The Blob" at one point? Wasn't that Bacharach? Been listening to this great collection on repeat for a while now, and thought about that one song today.
You are welcome, Diane. A lot of her Warner Bros. albums are great. I think my favorite might be the Color My World/Who Am I album, with A Sign of the Times/My Love and The World's Greatest International Hits being great runner-ups. Best choice album cut of hers that wasn't a hit that should have been is "Love Is Here" from These Are My Songs.
Diane and musicman1979,
Another vote for Petula--I love her hits to death, The productions are astounding. And "Downtown" is a priceless pop-cultural artifact. A relic of the days when downtown was "where it was at." And when people used expressions like "where it was at."
Ernie,
I don't think I ever posted "The Blob"--it's one of his big hits, and my goal was to focus on lesser-to-unknown Burt titles. In fact, I think I'm the very person who brought that 1954 Bell label 45 (with Burt conducting) to the attention of the Burt community. I don't think I ever got credited for same, though... And what's up with that? Nerd credit should be given whenever nerd credit is due, I say.
Ernie,
I saw Burt in person in Zanesville OH, and he did a medley of his earliest hits, including "The Blog," which he lampooned by doing the "pop" sound, finger in mouth. Unfortunately, to get an autograph from Burt, I'd have had to pay $40 to the Zanesville something society. I decided no.
Well, I thought I had seen it here, but perhaps it was elsewhere. My bad...
Musicman, I apologize for misspelling your handle -- spellcheck hates me!
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