RIP Burt Bacharach - One of America's great pop composers.
Replies to: RIP Burt Bacharach - One of America's great pop composers.
He spent 15 years with Angie Dickinson... sigh!
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You're just the king of assholes, yes?
How about you fuck off forever.
Curly not only are you an asshole but are supposed to Fuck off Forever. Good Job Bud!
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Curly, You get today's award for triggering Jim. I'm just an asshole but you're the King.
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Jim's always on the rag for Curly. He's a piece of work
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Jim has never asserted that he has stopped beating his wife.
We should all feel for her even if he finally has.
I'm guessing that he's not married, but does have a love interest...
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Thanks, Burt...
Burt Bacharach, the debonair pop composer, arranger, conductor, record producer and occasional singer whose hit songs in the 1960s distilled that decade’s mood of romantic optimism, died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94.
His publicist Tina Brausam confirmed the death. No specific cause was given.
A die-hard romantic whose mature style might be described as Wagnerian lounge music, Mr. Bacharach fused the chromatic harmonies and long, angular melodies of late-19th-century symphonic music with modern, bubbly pop orchestration, and embellished the resulting mixture with a staccato rhythmic drive. His effervescent compositions epitomized sophisticated hedonism to a generation of young adults only a few years older than the Beatles.
Because of the high gloss and apolitical stance of the songs Mr. Bacharach wrote with his most frequent collaborator, the lyricist Hal David, during an era of confrontation and social upheaval, they were often dismissed as little more than background music by listeners who preferred the hard edge of rock or the intimacy of the singer-songwriter genre. But in hindsight, the Bacharach-David team ranks high in the pantheon of pop songwriting.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/arts/music/burt-bacharach-dead.html
A great writing team. Teamed up with Dionne Warwick, Cilla Black, Karen Carpenter,
Dusty Springfield, Perry Como ...
My favorite was the Stranglers version of Walk on By.
Songs that caught my ear were "Raindrops..." and of course "Do you know the way to San Jose?"
..turns out, I did find my way there ;-).
Incredible career, and especially touching because they played his music in honor of George Floyd.
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That seals it, no questions of whether or not you're an asshole. You are! Well done.
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You just called Obama an asshole. Equally well done!
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Link: https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1529555038246428672
Doubling down - Good on you!
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Jim is totally on the ball today.
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You sound like Judge Judy.
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You are on the ball jimbo.
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He’s doing his best.
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YIKES!
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I respect the work of Burt. Especially his work on "Free Bird".
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Huh?
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Just a little levity.
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Lord, help me, I can't change.
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