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One nice thing last week was having so many people come together to share favorite adam schlesinger songs. I thought it& #39;d be nice to celebrate incredible songwriters while they& #39;re still with us too. Every day this week I& #39;m gonna do a thread, and I& #39;d love you to contribute as well
Today I want to talk about Burt Bacharach. Every time I listen to any of his songs I get extremely frustrated because I know there& #39;s no way I could ever do anything as incredible and magical as what he does on every song he& #39;s written in the past 6 decades
when I was on tour with @skylar__spence, @youngyeller_ and @___declan___ in 2015, we bought a used copy of the album he did with Elvis Costello at a bookstore in Atlanta to listen to in the van. Every song is fucking great, but this one really destroyed us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-s6MnPsFzY">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
I think it was Jesse who pointed out this really clever thing they do with the lyrics: "But now I see/I see you share your cake with him" The rhyme should be "share your cake with ME" but he& #39;s not there, and neither is the rhyme. it& #39;s so so good
If you& #39;ve got the time, there& #39;s a full tv special of them doing the whole album with a live orchestra on youtube (make the time) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad4i7tBhxPM">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Herb Alpert - This Guy& #39;s In Love With You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWjbUAYcxII">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
His songs with Hal David are just so emotionally complex and well written they work in any style but it& #39;s hard to imagine a better version of this than the Luther Vandross https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu2JBMNBbKo">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
which is not to diminish how good the dionne warwick version is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olvaDzUi8c8">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Dionne Warwick - (They Long To Be) Close To You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsBHXGpVtM8">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Richard& #39;s arrangement for the Carpenters version, though... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFx-5PGLgb4">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
surely this was my introduction to Burt Bacharach, and i& #39;m not ashamed of that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3RlIjj8l-Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
and, of course, the sequel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cp4VTztoao">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
but like, aretha franklin doing I Say A Little Prayer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ifw8JhDBvs">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
