Burt Bacharach index

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latest edit: 17 October 2023
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with specific lyricists, 1957-1968, including hits:

Burt Bacharach & Hal David

• selected hit songs, 1957-1962 + Another Tear Falls
• selected hit songs, 1963 + This Empty Place and A Lifetime of Loneliness
• selected hit songs, 1964 + A House Is Not A Home, (There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me*, and To Wait for Love
• selected hit songs, 1965 + Here I Am
• selected songs, 1967
• This Guy’s in Love With You, 1968
  • This Girl’s in Love With You
• more to come

with lyricist Bob Hilliard

• Burt Bacharach and Bob Hilliard: selected songs 1960-62 + ’65

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selected non-hits, 1962-1965

• Burt Bacharach: selected songs, 1962-1965, excluding hits

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featured song:

• 1959 — The Hangman
• 1961 — Another Tear Falls
• 1961 — Baby It’s You
• 1962 — Don’t Make Me Over
• 1963 — (They Long to Be) Close to You
• 1963 — This Empty Place
• 1964 — Walk On By
• 1965 — Alfie
• 1965 — Who’s Got the Action
• 1967 — The Windows of the World
  
• 1967 — The Look of Love
• 1967 — One Less Bell to Answer
• 1967 — I Say a Little Prayer
• 1968 — This Guy’s in Love With You
  • 1968 — This Girl’s in Love With You

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2023 tribute posts

• Goodbye Burt #1 – selected instrumentals, 1966 to 1969
• Goodbye Burt #2…..selected Bacharach & David songs sung by B. J. Thomas
• Goodbye Burt #3…..Bacharach and David medleys, 1968-2016
• Goodbye Burt #4…..All Kinds of People

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Burt Bacharach – selected external links

• Bacharach Online
  • Burt Bacharach songs: 100 hit recordings 1957-1990**
  • Lyrics and chords
• Burt Bacharach, Song by Song, by Serene Dominic (2003)
• Burt Bacharach – Wikipedia
  • Burt Bacharach songs: hit singles
• BB JazzWax 2011 interview, five parts
• Brill Building Pop (spectropop.com)
  
  • The Sound of Bacharach, booklet (2000 CD issue)
• Hal David profile and interview (celebrityaccess.com)

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Burt Bacharach… This Is Now — PBS Great Performances series, Season 25, Episode 18, originally aired on 17 May 1997

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(below) interviews

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* (There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me” – Sandie Shaw’s recording was a big hit in several countries, but not in the US, where it failed to reach the top forty (#51). It was #1 in the UK, Canada, and South Africa, and also did quite well in Australia (#16), Ireland (#7) and the Netherlands (#10).

** The page titled Burt Bacharach’s Hit Recordings at the site Burt Bacharach: A House is Not a Homepage contains a list that includes 100 hit recordings of songs with music by Burt Bacharach, but (for unknown reasons) also includes a number of other recordings that weren’t hits. To be a hit on the Billboard charts a recording must enter the top 40 for at least one week. At the top of the list we find the following breakdown:

Top 40 Hits: 66
Top 10 Hits: 28
No. 1 Hits: 6

However, every top 10 and no. 1 hit is, ipso facto, a top 40 hit. Therefore, without having counted them, I gather that the number of top 40 hit recordings in the list is 66 + 28 + 6 = 100. Fewer than one hundred songs are represented among these one hundred hits because for some songs there were multiple recordings that became hits.