The Say a Little Prayer creator composed more than 500 songs during his career – and won six Grammy Awards.
Oscar-winning Bacharach wrote hits such as Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head and dozens of other songs.
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This guy put out more pop garbage than any 100 songwriters combined.
I always thought they should've immediately put him in front of a firing squad for writing that Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head garbage.
That guy looks like the dude who dint kill hisself!
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You're an f'ing idiot.
ReplyDeleteHe was hugely successful and you are a felon living in a trailer.
Sweet Jesus, get a clue
Sorry, but I've never lived in a trailer and I'm so law abiding that I make a preacher look bad. Looks to me like you're the one that needs to get a clue, fuckface.
DeleteAnd the only reason he was so successful was because of martini sipping pussies such as yourself. Now go put on your Lawrence Welk Greatest Hits album and mellow the fuck out.
This is not me, there is some one using my name!
DeleteYeah, I think he's the same flamethrower who shows up from time to time to insult readers of this blog. He showed earliier using the name Shell and his comment was equally forgettable.
DeleteYawn.
Hey lay off Burt, my grandmother thought Mr. "Show Me the Way" Bacharch was right up there with Mitch "Bouncing Ball" Miller and Lawrence "Champange Music" Welk.
ReplyDeleteI second your comment, bogsidebunny. He brought a lot of comfort/happiness with the music and lyrics he wrote (made a lot of money doing it) to the generation which weathered the Depression, WW2, built the USA's "Golden Age" we now remember as the 50s and 60s and all the craziness that happened afterwards.
DeleteWhat about us that had to weather his 'music' when we were teenagers?
DeleteScarred for life!
DeleteAs one who shares this particular life experience, I think there's a lot out there worse than Burt. Barry Manilow, for example, and huge pile of AM pop drivel from the late 60's and early 70s.
Still better than rap and hip-hop.
-- Mr. Mayo
It made you stronger and built character. ;)
DeleteWell, what about all of us that had to weather all of the acid-rock random noise generators when we were teenagers?
DeleteLook, I get it. You don't like Bacharach's style of music. It's okay. You don't have to buy it. You don't have to play it. Stick with your own. However, putting him "in front of a firing squad" for writing a song you don't like? Isn't that a bit over-the-top - even for hyperbole.
Favil: It made me cry is what it made me.
DeleteRoy: You're gonna hate tomorrow's 8PM music post then.
Mr Mayo: You forgot disco, sir.
Yeah, I had forgotten it - 'til you reminded, ya fuck! :) But I won't escalate.
Delete-- My. Mayo
way worse than Burt, who-the-fuck-ever who wrote McArthur Park
Delete"Roy: You're gonna hate tomorrow's 8PM music post then."
DeleteProbably not. I'll click on it and if it's not my style, I'll just skip it. No big deal. Free American citizens are allowed to have different tastes than mine. (...or yours ;-) No firing squads necessary.
And by the way, just because I like Burt Bacharach in general doesn't mean I like *everything* he ever wrote. (I did, however, like The Carpenters, because in my opinion, Karen Carpenter had one of the finest alto voices. He wrote a lot of their songs.)
NOOOOO!!! NOT THE CARPENTERS!!!
DeleteJimmy Webb. Nope, I didn't need to look it up. Even I'm amazed at the crap I have stored in my head. Webb, BTW, while not as prolific as Bacharach, has quite a few hits to his credit.
DeleteYou probably don't like Leonard Cohen either.
-- Mr. Mayo
I liked Lawerence Welk just for his accent...a onea Anda twoa
DeleteI can't picture WC crying over a song--a dog--definitely (I never met G-DCharlie but with all the stories about him it's like I knew him and my "allergies" acted up a bit when I read how he passed)--but a SONG?!?!?!
DeleteI really miss that dog.
Deletehell, I miss Charlie and never met him in person, brother.
DeleteOriginal Grandpa
Yeah? WTF have YOU ever written? Pinheaded prick!
ReplyDeleteStories on this blog…
DeleteWiscoDave
Stories. I write stories that are ten times more entertaining than the shit he writes.
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DeleteHe was married to Angie Dickenson so he gets some props from me on that account.
ReplyDeleteAngie was a perfect example of a tough broad. Hot as hell, and would surely break your dick off in the bedroom Olympics. And you'd die smiling
DeleteOriginal Grandpa
Keep saying "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" a few more time. I'm sure that half the reading audience has an earwig going and are googling the lyrics.
ReplyDeleteI know I can't get it out of my head now. I knew I shouldn't have clicked on that story.
DeleteMilitary base I lived on when I was 8-10, that was the base commander's favorite song. So having only one, yes, one radio station to pick up, guess what was played about every 20-30 minutes? Fucking hate that song with a burning passion only exceeded by hatred for Springsteen and Dylan.
DeleteRather listen to BeeGee quality disco or The Carpenters than listen to Springsteen and/or Dylan.
Burt's music was non-threatening in its messages, just deadly ear-worm level tunes.
Meh.
Jeff Lynn can't get it out of his head either, no no... no no.
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Beans: My dad who was a career soldier and 2 tour Vietnam Vet, played Dylan and Joan Baez around the house, believe it or not. Looking back, I now realize he probably did it to keep other people away.
Delete"...just deadly ear-worm level tunes."
DeleteNow THAT I will agree with. But that's not necessarily bad.
"...probably did it to keep other people away."
That made me laugh. I remember back during the "Boom-Car" fad, (You know - boom-cars - where guys would drive around in a car with a sound system worth more than the car, blasting hip-hop at 9 decibels above the threshold of pain.) I thought a good antidote might be for me to build a high-end, powerful system in my own car and then blast Bacharach tunes right back at em.
Cool Beans. I thought I was one of only a few who would like to get a bag of quarters, put Springsteen in a laundromat dryer, weld the door shut and drink a 12 pack watching him spin. I guess I could still put that on my bucket list.
DeleteAh, Mr. Mayo, I see what you did there.
DeleteYeah, sure, uh-huh. And next you're gonna tell us he knew all the words and sang along to Country Joe's fish cheer.
Delete"What's that spell?
What's that spell?
What's that smell?" ;^)
No, I'm dead serious. He listened to Dylan and Joan Baez. Except for hard rock, I don't think there was much music he didn't care for back then and he didn't give a shit about politics.
DeleteJust yankin' your chain, sir. About that time I stopped listenin' to that hard rock shit as I got away from the druggie-types. Went back to mostly C&W.
DeleteYour Pop sounds like the kinda guy I might've enjoyed havin' a tall, cool one with on a hot day, as long as he didn't mind a long-haired, bearded redneck.
Next time ya say a prayer for him, include my thanks for his service. After all, he must've had more time in the chow line than I had in uniform...
He'd drink with anybody. Hell, he even drank with me once I became of age.
DeleteI despised that song. I hated all those asinine songs back then like midnight at the oasis, here me roar shit and then fuckin disco occured. Niel Diamond and that Manalow shit I don't even like to talk about. As far as calling people fuckin idiots you must be in the wrong room. Most people in here, I choose to believe, would only call someone a fuckin idiot to their face cuz it takes a set of balls.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE YOU, MAN!!!
Delete♫ Sweet Caroline...wah, wah, wah...Good times never seemed so good....♫
Delete♫ Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl/With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there...♫ ENJOY the earworms
I enjoyed his music.
ReplyDeleteNo good tunes to listen to about bitches and ho’s and the po po
ReplyDeleteThese comments just made my day, I haven't laughed so hard in a while.
ReplyDeleteI'm having fun with it.
DeleteMan, I hate elevator music, fake supermarket music, call holding music, smooth jazz, soft rock and all related forms of insipid air pudding.
ReplyDeleteI despise rap and hip hop- especially that autotuned crap.
*Logs off and fires up some BOC. *
The only time I can listen to jazz is when I'm in a club drinking bourbon.
DeleteJazz is too close to jizz for me.
DeleteNot sure whether to say, "Too bad for you", because there are worse things than having a few drinks in a good club.
DeleteProblem with "jazz" is similar to "rock". What the hell is it? I have no idea what the boundaries might be. There's a lot out there to enjoy, and stinkers as well. Both have become so encompassing, that they're useless as labels for a genre, at least without qualifiers.
-- Mr. Mayo
I'm not real big on brass, although quite a few of the rock bands I like have used horns.
DeleteAs far as the jazz club thing goes, I discovered it by accident. I was invited out to a club and it turned out to be a jazz club in the Bay Area. We were close to a hundred miles from home and I didn't drive, so I didn't have much choice but to go in.
I actually had a really nice time sitting there sipping my drink and visiting with my date and our friends while listening to the music, and I didn't even have to worry about a bar fight breaking out.
Ahh. Dave Brubeck, "Take Five"
DeleteI think all music genres have their red headed stepchildren. Raindrops was written in 1969 as a soundtrack for the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I haven't thought about that song in many years but as someone who seems to start out every day now shaking my head and thinking "what the fuck is going on"...and not having that many more days left, I don't mind being reminded of times when I was younger (that song played on every AM radio in America) and when things at least SEEMED more innocent and sane. It's a book mark, like it or not.
ReplyDeleteIMO the overall quality of American music just bounced up. People get nostalgic for 60's and 70's music and forget just how much of it was mindless crap. May i remind you that the Archies had a number 1 hit.
ReplyDeleteNow if you want to hear some truly amazing music, try Nightwish, maybe start with the live version of "Ghost Love Score" from 2013.
Anon, just recently heard a nightwish song than downloaded a couple dozen. It's an oddly interesting sound and I can't believe I like it. I'm a 70's 80's guy (big hair bands, rock and roll etc. etc.). I'm not sure what their category of music is but I'm digging it. And that goth looking singer ain't too hard on the eyes either.
DeleteThe category is symphonic metal and it has been big in Europe and South America since the mid 90s. There are a lot of amazing bands out there but Nightwish is a good place to start. It is best to listen to their concert videos because they can sound like studio recordings live and their crowds really get into it. There is a version of I Want My Tears Back they did in South America where the entire audience in this huge venue was dancing along with the vocalist. All of the musicians are top quality, but they play within themselves, no showing off.
DeleteI just hope Austin Powers makes it through the night...
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the funniest threads I've read here!
ReplyDeleteI was never a Burt fan, but I thought it was cool when Elvis Costello and him got together. It was nice.
hey, I'll look for that.
DeleteBurt was radio of my childhood. Those songs are ingrained.
I always thought he looked creepy, though
https://youtu.be/_BOp4luu40o
ReplyDeleteWe all have our peculiar tastes in music. I like most of it. Not much into the modern shitty rock they claim is country, but stuff from those bygone days I can love.
ReplyDeleteOh, can't forget the Retarded Anal Pricks aka rap music when you hear it, you check that your EDC is loose in the holster then check your six to make sure it's not an ambush.
Anyone mind if we add that gawd-awful “Piano Man” to the pyre?
ReplyDeleteI hereby nominate Don McClane's "Bye, Bye Miss American Pie" for inclusion to the list of 'Stupid Songs That Made Me Wretch'.
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