Sings Burt Bacharach [Import]

Sings Burt Bacharach [Import]

ASIN: B0009J8DDI

Track Listings

1. What The World Needs Now

2. Promises, Promises

3. Look Of Love

4. Do You Know The Way To San Jose

5. Trains And Boats And Planes

6. Make It Easy On Yourself

7. Alfie

8. This Girl's In Love With You

9. 4 Say A Little Prayer

10. Wanting Things

11. Walk On By

12. Magic Moments- Blue On Blue

13. Don't Make Me Over

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Reissue of the Album Recorded in 1968. 24bit/96khz Digitally Remastered. Comes in a Paper Sleeve. Design of the Original Center Label Faithfully Reproduced Onto Disc.

Tracks:

What's New, Pussycat? - Jason Graae
Are You There (With Another Girl)? - Farah Alvin
I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Guy Haines
My Little Red Book - Melba Joyce
One Less Bell To Answer - Christiane Noll
Bacharach At The Movies: The Blob/The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance/Hot Spell/Raindrops Keep... - The Plaids
Alfie - Michelle Nicastro
The Look Of Love - Jane Krakowski
Anyone Who Had A Heart - La Chanze
Whoever You Are, I Love You - Susan Egan
Window Wishing - Alet Oury
A House Is Not A Home - Linda Purl
A Bacharach Love Story: Magic Moments/I Say A Little Prayer/Close To You/Wives And Lovers... - Shauna Hicks
That's What Friends Are For - Helen Reddy

Customer Reviews:

Attention Broadway Fans!.......1999-03-18

This album is a must have for those of you who are both B'way addicts and connoiseurs of really first-class cheesy pop. Basically, it's a bunch of really talented musical theatre people having a GAS with the Bacharach bubble-gum style. From the first minute of the first track, when Jason Graae starts into the hilariously orchestrated "What's New, Pussycat?"--which starts off with a dig at "Cats"--you'll be laughing. Check out Farah Alvin's bright "Are You There (With Another Girl)" and Susan Egan's over-the-top "Whoever You Are, I Love You" in which she milks the old wailing-diva standard for all it's worth. These performers are usually playing characters--it's so much fun to hear them letting loose and pretending to be pop singers. There are those, of course, who actually take Bacharach seriously. They will be offended at the lack of tortured, hoarse-voiced life-stinks crooners here. The CD may be too clean and well, too well-sung, for them to enjoy. But if you want to hear honest to goodness singers getting DOWN, and have a good laugh in the meantime, pick this up.

BROADWAY TREATMENT OF BACHARACH THAT GROWS ON YOU.......1998-10-03

At first listen, I was disappointed. The voices were unfamiliar and cold; the orchestration overly brassy and loose. And yes, it sounded very Broadway so much so that friends of mine who heard the music for the first time commented that they never knew I was into musicals.

However, after quite a few sessions of playing the CD in my car, this compilation of Bacharach songs actually sounded better and better. (Maybe the ambient noise helped disguise the flaws - seriously.) The Broadway vocal quality became addictive and I got hooked. An inspired selection of songs, some lesser known, also helped. Best tracks are One Less Bell, A House is Not a Home, and Window Wishing. Most of the other tracks are pretty decent as well, but not as good as Maureen McGovern's versions in Baby I'm Yours.

And Linda Krakowski (the secretary in Ally McBeal) should stick to acting. Her rendition of The Look of Love was a horrible attempt at Marilyn Monroe vocals. Helen Reddy should also stay retired. Her vocal acrobatics on That's What Friends are For sounded like a bad joke. There is a little something "extra" after the last track.

Lushly mounted Burt without the emotion.......1998-07-16

Though rarely have Bacharach's works received such a lush production, rarer however is the airlessness with which these classics have been performed. A collection of Broadway-trained voices interpret some intruingly obscure Bacharach songs with an alarming lack of feeling and a preponderance of technigue.

Predictably, the songs associated with Dionne Warwick fare the worst under this Velveeta treatent, and one is left to merely enjoy Bacharach's splendid music imagining how they might sound performed by artists with souls. The best cut by far is La Chanze's "Anyone Who Had a Heart", and it's always nice to hear Helen Reddy again.

The best thing about the album is that it introduces some seldom-heard Bacharach and will perhaps send listeners out to find the original recordings for some indication as to how these songs should sound by artists with a deeper understanding of the lyrics and less of a determination to 'sell it'.

Close to You: Sings Burt Bacharach
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Close to You: Sings Burt Bacharach
Yasuko Agawa
Manufacturer: Jvc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005GWZL
Release Date: 1996-06-21

Dusty Sings Burt Bacharach
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Dusty Sings Burt Bacharach
Dusty Springfield
Manufacturer: Phili
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00002529X
Release Date: 1995-12-24

What the World Needs Now: Connie Francis Sings Burt Bacharach
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Connie Francis Sings Burt Bacharach CD

Better than ever

AMEN and Thank you Japan

ABOUT TIME

What the World Needs Now: Connie Francis Sings Burt Bacharach
Connie Francis
Manufacturer: Universal
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0009J8DDI
Release Date: 2005-07-17

Tracks:

What The World Needs Now
Promises, Promises
Look Of Love
Do You Know The Way To San Jose
Trains And Boats And Planes
Make It Easy On Yourself
Alfie
This Girl's In Love With You
4 Say A Little Prayer
Wanting Things
Walk On By
Magic Moments- Blue On Blue
Don't Make Me Over

Album Details

Reissue of the Album Recorded in 1968. 24bit/96khz Digitally Remastered. Comes in a Paper Sleeve. Design of the Original Center Label Faithfully Reproduced Onto Disc.

Customer Reviews:

Connie Francis Sings Burt Bacharach CD.......2007-05-12

Most songs are good but not as clear as I had hoped for.

Better than ever.......2005-12-23

Connie Francis is probably the single biggest commercially succesful singer in pop history. Some rare singers have chops, voices as superb instruments, that have perfect pitch and reach any part of artistry effortlessly. Only Ella Fitzgerald and Jack Jones come to mind. But, most great singers use contrivences and that becomes part of the charm of their artistry-Cher who has her "swoops" [a superb and underated singer],Rod Stewart,etc. Well Connie, when given adult and sophisticated faire still uses her ascending but dropping notes technique and becomes a superb singer. I don,t know who the arranger is here, maybe Claus Ogerman?, but just glorious arrangements and playing. Bacharach obviously inspired here and this is one lush and luscious effort. My favorite Connie Francis album!

AMEN and Thank you Japan.......2005-10-14

Well it's about time someone understands supply and demand here in the US, even if it is a country outside of the US. All thanks to you Japan. Connie Francis was one of Americas greatest imports. The joys and entertainment she has bestowed on us here in the US as well as others over seas has gone greatly unsung for far too long. What is wrong here. Where are all the other great recordings she mastered in the early, middle and late sixties? And while we are at it, how about the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame. What is going on there? Why is Connie overlooked every time????? Anyway this recording ranks as one of her greatest. She takes songs made famous by other female singers and makes them her own. I will say what I have said for years, in her prine NO ONE could touch her. Listen to these selections and you will see after all these years, she still is our number one female singer. What a voice.

ABOUT TIME.......2005-09-24

Leave it to Japan to release a rare and complete Connie Francis lp on CD and not her native USA. What does that say about us? I am glad they did it as this is one of her best in the catalogue from a one a kind artist. She covers songs made famous by other singers. Listen to this--these songs now belong to her. Thanks to Japan for the foresight, intelligence and respect they have given to his legendary performer. Maybe Universal will get on the stick and start releasing some of these treasured lps on CD in this country and give her the same respect that has been so shamefully ignored for many years.

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