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Burt Freeman Bacharach (/ˈMay 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023) was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner.

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It is with heavy hearts that we pay tribute to the legendary Burt Bacharach, who passed away last Wednesday, February 8th. Burt was a pioneering composer, songwriter, and pianist who blended elements of jazz, pop, classical, and R&B to create a distinct and recognizable sound that still resonates with audiences today.

Burt collaborated with numerous lyricists over the years, including Hal David, and produced a string of timeless hits including "What the World Needs Now is Love," "Close to You," "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," "Walk On By," and of course the near and dear to our hearts at AncientFaces - "Do You Know the Way to San Jose."

He was awarded multiple Grammy Awards and an Academy Award for Best Original Song for his outstanding contributions to the music industry. Burt was married four times, starting with Paula Stewart in 1953, followed by Angie Dickinson in 1965, Carole Bayer Sager in 1982, and Jane Hansen in 1993.

Burt Bacharach will always be remembered as one of the great songwriters. We invite you to visit AncientFaces and share your memories about this remarkable musician. Rest in peace, Burt.

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Few songwriters have been able to enjoy hits across six decades, as well as the bonus of a dramatic revival of interest in their work during the later years of their careers. Burt Bacharach, who has died aged 94, could claim both.

With his writing partner Hal David, Bacharach launched himself into the front rank of pop songwriters with a brilliant streak of hits for Dionne Warwick during the 1960s, beginning in 1962 with Don’t Make Me Over and proceeding through (among others) Walk on By, Anyone Who Had a Heart, I Say a Little Prayer, Trains and Boats and Planes, and Do You Know the Way to San Jose. All became standards in Bacharach’s chosen pop-easy-listening genre, and meanwhile he was turning out equally durable classics for a string of different artists. Tom Jones never particularly liked What’s New, Pussycat?, the Oscar-nominated theme from the 1965 film of the same name, but acknowledged its enduring popularity.

Herb Alpert topped the US chart with the winsome ballad This Guy’s in Love With You, Jackie DeShannon did likewise with What the World Needs Now Is Love, and BJ Thomas was the lucky recipient of Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head, from the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (which brought Bacharach and David Oscars for best theme song and best original score). Bacharach was an Oscar-winner for a third time in 1982, with Arthur’s Theme from the film Arthur.

The son of Bert Bacharach, a sports star turned nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, and Irma Freeman, an artist and songwriter, Burt was born in Kansas City, Missouri. The family moved to Kew Gardens in Queens, New York, when he was a child. At the insistence of his mother, Burt studied the cello, drums and piano. His ears were opened by the innovative harmonies and melodies of jazz musicians of the day such as Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker, and he played with several jazz combos before enrolling in music courses at the Mannes School of Music, New York, and at McGill University in Montreal.

He served in the US army (1950-52), and while acting as a dance band arranger in Germany he met the singer Vic Damone. Back in the US after his discharge, Bacharach worked as piano accompanist to Damone and to numerous other artists on the club circuit. One of them was the actor and singer Paula Stewart, whom he married in 1953.

He was fortunate to fall into one of the all-time great songwriting partnerships with David, whom he first met at the New York songwriting beehive, the Brill Building (also to be the home of other renowned songwriting duos including Leiber & Stoller, Goffin & King and Pomus & Shuman). David had been writing hits for such luminaries as Sarah Vaughan and Frank Sinatra since the late 40s. Bacharach and David scored their first big commercial coup when the country singer Marty Robbins took their song The Story of My Life into the US Top 20 in 1957. A cover version by Michael Holliday reached No 1 in the UK the following year, and Perry Como brought them another smash with his recording of Magic Moments, which spent eight weeks at No 1 in Britain.

After the breakdown of his marriage (he and Stewart divorced in 1958), Bacharach travelled to Europe to become pianist and bandleader for Marlene Dietrich, a role he would sustain until 1964. By 1961 he was back in New York, and wrote some material for the Drifters, as well as the Chuck Jackson hit Any Day Now before resuming his partnership with David. Their song (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance, inspired by the John Wayne/James Stewart western, became a US No 4 hit for Gene Pitney in 1962. Pitney did better still with the duo’s composition Only Love Can Break a Heart, which reached No 2 later that year.

Then came Bacharach and David’s historic hook-up with Warwick. She was a member of the Drifters’ backing group, the Gospelaires, and the songwriters invited her to make some demo recordings at their office at the publishers Famous Music, in the Brill Building. One of them was for Make It Easy on Yourself, which became a big hit for Jerry Butler. David recalled: “She said, ‘I thought that was my song!’ We said, ‘No, you just made a demo’. She was really very hurt and angry. Then we realised here’s this wonderful singer and we’re using her to make demos – she could be a star!”

So it proved, and the hits with Warwick became their calling card. They wrote and produced 20 American Top 40 hits for her over the ensuing decade, including seven that reached the Top 10. One of these songs, I Say a Little Prayer, also gave Aretha Franklin a US Top 10 hit and her biggest solo hit in Britain, where it reached No 4. Throughout the 60s anything Bacharach and David touched became commercial gold dust. They wrote film scores for What’s New, Pussycat?, Alfie and Casino Royale, and scored the successful Broadway musical Promises, Promises, whose title song provided another hit for Warwick and spun off a chartbuster for Bacharach himself with I’ll Never Fall in Love Again.

The writers always had a soft spot for the UK, probably because so many British-based artists had No 1 hits with their material, including Cilla Black – whose version of Anyone Who Had a Heart was her breakthrough hit – Sandie Shaw, the Walker Brothers and Frankie Vaughan.

The Carpenters ushered in the 70s with (They Long to Be) Close to You, a US No 1 which also reached No 6 in the UK, but although Bacharach’s 1971 album (called just Burt Bacharach) became a sought-after collector’s item, the decade would prove disappointing. In 1973 Bacharach and David collaborated on a new musical version of the 1937 film Lost Horizon, but it was a commercial disaster that prompted angry splits between Bacharach, David and Warwick, and involved them in a spate of lawsuits. The writers parted company after a disagreement over royalties. Bacharach’s second marriage, to the actor Angie Dickinson, whom he had married in 1965, began to come apart, although they did not divorce until 1980.

It was not until the early 80s that Bacharach’s magic touch returned, when he won the Oscar for best original song for the chart-topping theme from the film Arthur, which he had also scored. One of its co-writers was the lyricist Carole Bayer Sager, whom Bacharach married the following year. The couple went on to write Making Love for Roberta Flack and Heartlight for Neil Diamond. In 1986, Bacharach enjoyed one of his best ever years, achieving two US No 1s with That’s What Friends Are for, recorded by Warwick with Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder as a charitable fundraiser for Aids, and the Patti LaBelle/Michael McDonald recording of the lachrymose On My Own.

In 1991 his marriage to Bayer Sager ended, and two years later he married Jane Hansen. In a 2015 interview, Bacharach – who was nicknamed “the playboy of the western world” during the 60s – admitted: “I didn’t mean to hurt anybody, but when you wind up being married four times, there are a lot of bodies strewn in your wake.”

During the 90s, Bacharach and David reunited with Warwick for Sunny Weather Lover, from her album Friends Can Be Lovers, and Bacharach wrote songs for James Ingram and Earth, Wind & Fire. In 1995 he co-wrote God Give Me Strength with Elvis Costello for Allison Anders’ film about the Brill Building era, Grace of My Heart, and this resulted in the Costello-Bacharach album Painted from Memory (1998).

Bacharach’s contribution to pop history was acknowledged in a 1996 BBC documentary, Burt Bacharach – This Is Now, and he would find himself being hailed as an icon of cool by bands as varied as Oasis, REM, Massive Attack and the White Stripes. In 1997, an all-star cast including Costello, Warwick, Chrissie Hynde, Sheryl Crow and Luther Vandross banded together at the Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, for a serenade of Bacharach’s songs called One Amazing Night, and the Rhino label issued The Look of Love, a three-disc compilation of his music.

Bacharach’s profile received a huge boost from his appearances in all three of Mike Myers’s 60s-spoofing Austin Powers films. He earned an Oscar nomination for the song Walking Tall, his first collaboration with the lyricist Tim Rice, which was performed by Lyle Lovett on the soundtrack of Stuart Little (1999).

His 2005 album At This Time unusually found Bacharach writing lyrics as well as music and even provoking some controversy by touching on political themes. “All my life I’ve written love songs, and I’ve been non-political,” he said. “So it must be pretty significant that I suddenly have strong feelings of discomfort with the state of the world, and what our [US] administration is doing.” This did not prevent the album from winning the 2006 Grammy award for best pop instrumental album.

In 2008 he opened the BBC Electric Proms at the Roundhouse, in London, with Adele and Jamie Cullum among his supporting musicians. His autobiography, Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music, was published in 2013, and in 2015 he performed at the Glastonbury festival. He continued to tour past his 90th birthday, with concerts in the UK, US and Europe in 2018 and 2019.

In addition to his Oscars and six Grammy awards (plus a lifetime achievement award in 2008), he was awarded the Polar music prize in Stockholm in 2001. In 2011, the Library of Congress awarded Bacharach and David the Gershwin prize for popular song.

A daughter, Nikki, from his second marriage, died in 2007. He is survived by Jane, their son, Oliver, and daughter, Raleigh, and another son, Cristopher, from his third marriage.

🔔 Burt Freeman Bacharach, songwriter, singer and musician, born 12 May 1928; died 8 February 2023

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Burt Bacharach Burt Freeman Bacharach May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023

American Musician | Composer | Songwriter | Performer Six-time Grammy Award Winner Three-time Academy Award Winner Mr. Bacharach composed many of his works in collaboration with lyricist Hal David

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Burt Bacharach, Master Pop Composer, Dead at 94 - RollingStone Grammy- and Oscar-winning songwriter helped pen timeless singles like "What the World Needs Now Is Love," "Walk on By," "I Say a Little Prayer," and "Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head"

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Burt Freeman Bacharach (1928-2023).

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12 May 1928 – 08 February 2023

Burt Freeman Bacharach

Burt Freeman Bacharach (/ˈbækəræk/ BAK-ə-rak) was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner, Bacharach's songs have been recorded by more than 1,000 different artists. As of 2014, he had written 73 US and 52 UK Top 40 hits. He was one of the most important composers of 20th-century popular music.

Bacharach's music is characterized by unusual chord progressions, influenced by his background in jazz harmony, and uncommon selections of instruments for small orchestras. Most of Bacharach and David's hits were written specifically for and performed by Dionne Warwick, but earlier associations (from 1957 to 1963) saw the composing duo work with Marty Robbins, Perry Como, Gene McDaniels, and Jerry Butler. Following the initial success of these collaborations, Bacharach went on to write hits for Gene Pitney, Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield, Jackie DeShannon, Bobbie Gentry, Tom Jones, Herb Alpert, B. J. Thomas, and the Carpenters, among numerous other artists. He arranged, conducted, and produced much of his recorded output.

Songs that he co-wrote which have topped the Billboard Hot 100 include "This Guy's in Love with You" (1968), "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" (1969), "(They Long to Be) Close to You" (1970), "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" (1981), and "That's What Friends Are For" (1986).

A significant figure in easy listening music, Bacharach is described by writer William Farina as "a composer whose venerable name can be linked with just about every other prominent musical artist of his era". In later years, his songs were newly appropriated for the soundtracks of major feature films, by which time "tributes, compilations, and revivals were to be found everywhere. He influenced later musical movements such as chamber pop[8] and Shibuya-kei. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked Bacharach and David at number 32 for their list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. In 2012, the duo received the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first time the honor has been given to a songwriting team.

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This is just a tribute to some of the musicians who died in 2023. It will only be a limited list, because so many died, especially in January there were more deaths then there were days. Jeff Beck, member of The Yardbirds, founder of the Jeff Beck Group and one of the most influential rock guitarists of all time, died on Tuesday (Jan. 10). He was 78 years old. Burt Freeman Bacharach was an…

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Burt Bacharach Wiki, Bio, Age, Career, Parents, Education, Relationship, Death, Net Worth, Nationality And More

Burt Bacharach Wiki:- Burt Freeman Bacharach was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who lived from May 12, 1928, to February 8, 2023. From the late 1950s to the 1980s, he wrote hundreds of pop songs, frequently in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. Bacharach, a six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner, has had more than 1,000 different musicians record his songs.

Burt Bacharach Wiki

Burt Bacharach had penned 52 UK Top 40 hits of 2014. He was a key figure in 20th-century popular music composition. Burt Bacharach's work is distinguished by odd chord progressions, influenced by his training in jazz harmony, and unusual choices of instruments for tiny orchestras. However, prior collaborations (from 1957 to 1963) saw the songwriting team team up with Marty Robbins, Perry Como, Gene McDaniels, and Jerry Butler. Dionne Warwick performed and recorded the majority of Bacharach and David's hits.

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Parents And Education

Bacharach was raised in the Kew Gardens neighbourhood of New York City and received his high school diploma from Forest Hills High School in 1946. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He was the child of Irma M and renowned syndicated newspaper columnist Mark Bertram Bert Bacharach. Bacharach was forced to learn the piano as a child by his mother, an amateur painter and songwriter. He claims that although his family was Jewish, they did not practise or pay much attention to their faith. But the youngsters I knew were Catholic, he continues. "Even though I was Jewish, I didn't want anyone to know."

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Career

Bacharach and lyricist Hal David started writing together after meeting at the Brill Building in New York City in 1957. They experienced professional success when Marty Robbins covered their song "The Story of My Life," which peaked at number one on the U.S. Country Chart in 1957. Soon after, Perry Como recorded "Magic Moments" for RCA Records; it peaked at No. 4 in the U.S. Bacharach and David hold the distinction of being the first songwriters to have produced back-to-back No. 1 UK singles with these two songs (Michael Holliday sang the "The Story of My Life" version that topped the British chart).

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Relationship

Bacharach had four marriages. Paula Stewart was the subject of his first, five-year marriage. Angie Dickinson, an actress, was the subject of his second marriage, which lasted 15 years. Nikki Bacharach, an autistic daughter of Bacharach and Dickinson, committed herself on January 4, 2007, when she was 40 years old. Bacharach's third marriage, which lasted nine years, was to lyricist Carole Bayer Sager. In addition to adopting Christopher, Bacharach and Bayer Sager worked together on a number of musical compositions. The Meaning of Life by Monty Python makes reference to this union. In 1993, Bacharach wed Jane Hansen, his fourth wife; the couple has two children: Oliver, a son, and Raleigh, a daughter.

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Death

Burt Bacharach, a dapper pop composer, arranger, conductor, record producer, and sporadic performer whose popular songs captured the romantic optimism of the 1960s, passed away on Wednesday at his Los Angeles home. He was 94. The death was verified by Tina Brausam, his publicist. She chose not to give a reason.

Net Worth

Burt Bacharach has a $150 million to $200 million net worth. Though he was raised in Queens, New York, he was actually born in Kansas City, Missouri. Burt attended Forest Hills High School and has a passion for music ever since he was a young child.

Nationality

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Burt Freeman Bacharach, o conhecido Burt Bacharach (Kansas City, 12 de maio de 1928 - Los Angeles, 08 de fevereiro de 2023).

Burt Freeman Bacharach, the well-known Burt Bacharach (Kansas City, May 12, 1928 - Los Angeles, February 8, 2023).

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Burt Freeman Bacharach (May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023)

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Burt Bacharach dies at the age of 94

Today we heard the sad news that American composer Burt Bacharach died yesterday at the age of 94. BornBurt Freeman BacharachMay 12, 1928Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.DiedFebruary 8, 2023��(aged 94)Los Angeles, California, U.S.EducationMcGill UniversityMannes School of MusicMusic Academy of the WestOccupationsComposersongwriterrecord producerpianistsingerconductor Dame Shirley Bassey sang the…

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Burt Freeman Bacharach (1928-2023)

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In Memoriam: Burt Bacharach (1928 - 2023)

Burt Freeman Bacharach (May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023) was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner, Bacharach’s songs have been recorded by more than 1,000 different artists. As of 2014,…