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Last updated on July 27th, 2017 at 12:47 pm
Burt Bacharach gets political! And he even has an Australian angle; the lead song on his new protest CD is entitled Please Explain.
- Burt Bacharach?!? I thought his gigs these days consisted of making the rounds of old folks homes in Ft. Lauderdale, crooning to captive audiences. In fact, I thought I heard somewhere that he had developed a new style: creating a castanet effect with his false teeth while singing “In a Little Spanish Town”? Somehow, when it comes to protest music, I just don’t see him as a consort for, say, Grace Slick.
- Burt Bacharach? I thought he was dead.Posted by wronwright on 11/07 at 11:13 AM • permalink
Burt Bacharach? I thought he was dead.
You’re thinking of Snake Plisken.
Who, to be honest, I’d much rather hear from.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 11/07 at 11:34 AM • permalink
- I just don’t know what to do with myself.Posted by chinesearithmetic on 11/07 at 11:40 AM • permalink
- I particularly liked his Sympathy for a Suicide Bomber</i>…
<i>Just like me,
They long to be
Close to you…Posted by richard mcenroe on 11/07 at 12:15 PM • permalink
- I don’t think Burt’s enlistment in the Moonbattery is going to make a huge difference. In the first place, as indicated in the comments above, most people seem to think he was already dead. Secondly, he wasn’t what you call real popular even at his “peak”. I mean, this is a guy whose LP’s can be found outside of thrift stores in a big box marked “Take As Many As You like”.
- Interesting side comment in Bacharach’s article:
“[Bacharach] did not call on the “brilliant” [Hal] David, with whom he has written such pop standards as “The Look of Love,” because, in part, “I (did not) know where he stood on some of the issues”
Hey Burt: if you don’t know the views of your decades-long writing partner, you might want to ask yourself why he didn;t share them with you. Maybe he sensed that he’d have better results talking to his own foot.
Posted by Paul Wright on 11/07 at 03:42 PM • permalink
- Shut up and sing Burt.
You’re only an entertainer.
— Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 11/07 at 04:08 PM • permalink
- I won’t hear a word said against Burt. The man is a stone-cold solid-gold genius. As for his politics, if you’ve seen any interview footage with Burt over the last 10 years or so, it’s painfully evident that he is suffering from some form of nervous/mental illness. Seriously. So let’s be charitable, and put his political opinions down to that cause.
- Joke c. 1970
Q: what sits on top of your car and plays the piano?
A: Burt Pack rack
Posted by Consuela Potez on 11/07 at 06:18 PM • permalink
- Another good reason not to listen to that syrupy, meaningless, err, uhm – crap.
All right, all right: “Moon River” was good.
He should be taken to task just for giving the Carpenters something to sing. I never could figure out what was wrong with Angie anyway. I mean, she used to hang with Sinatra, man. Well, at least she redeemed herself.
- #15. I agree – most major talents are kind of whacky. The only fault I can find with Burt is that his songs get stuck in your head.
‘why do birds , suddenly appear…’ ARRGGHH!!
It’s so good it’s BAD!Posted by Deo Vindice on 11/07 at 07:12 PM • permalink
- I don’t know, the older I get, the more I like Burt Bacharach. And the Carpenters for that matter. If I had said that in the seventies, I would have been ostracized.
I still hate Abba though.
Posted by wronwright on 11/07 at 09:41 PM • permalink
- wronwright — My 72-year-old MOTHER doesn’t even listen to Burt Bacharach anymore…!
Of course she has this unhealthy fixation on Michael Flatley dance revues…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 11/07 at 11:27 PM • permalink
I won’t hear a word said against Burt. The man is a stone-cold solid-gold genius.
Yeah, he wrote “Close to You,” the song that is now playing over and over in my head because all I have to do is see the title in print and my childhood memories of repeated forced listenings makes the song start playing in the channel it carved in my brain. You know that scene in Pi where the protagonist puts an electric drill through his skull?
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 11/08 at 12:45 AM • permalink
- On the day that you were born/the angels got together/and decided to make a dream come true/so they sprinkled gold dust in your hair/and golden starlight in your eyes of–
DRILLLLLLLLLLLLL
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 11/08 at 12:47 AM • permalink
- #28 lol!! You’re lucky. I had the trumpet solo from ‘Close to you’ on a loop in my head for maybe close to a week. I dont even LIKE trumpet solos.Posted by Deo Vindice on 11/08 at 01:12 AM • permalink
- Andrea, if all else fails to get the song out of your mind, there’s always the trusty Bananaphone…
- I’ve been “Wishin’ and Hopin’” he’d keep his mouth shut. As he has always had a poor singing voice, he left the singing to actual singers. I wish he’d take the same policy for politics.
I don’t know, the older I get, the more I like Burt Bacharach. And the Carpenters for that matter. If I had said that in the seventies, I would have been ostracized.
People in the seventies thought Jimmy Carter was the answer to America’s problems. I’d be honored to be ostracized by such tone-deaf philistines.
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No wait, that was Bert Kaempfert. Never mind.