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5.0 out of 5 stars
The Burt you need, January 11, 2006
This review is from: Look of Love: Burt Bacharach Collection (Audio CD)
Five stars are for Burt as a composer and director and for his melodies which are something extremely beautiful. Extremely beautiful. This collection comprehend all the music Burt is rightly famous for plus some more. Burt is really one of the greatest composers from the most recent decades. Raindrops, Wifes and Lovers, What the world needs now, I'll never fall in love again and all the greatest songs he wrote are rightly super famous. I think these songs as immortal popular songs. I love Bacharach and David's music. I think they wrote like the greatest standards authors, Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Johnny Mandel, Mancini etc. Infact their songs became in the sixties even progressions which jazz players played occasionally with very nice results by the way! I suggest if you love Bacharach' music to check Stan Gets Bacharach songbook for example, extremely pleasing. Even in the lyrics field David (and I think Burt contributed too for sure) wrote tender but clever songs. I love these songs, for real. But this collection contains still some not essential tunes. It's strange in my opinion to consider how diverse were those songs, the essential ones and the unessential ones. The quality grade is so different. I think radically different. I think that Burt should be aware of that, but you know how inspiration is... something it's there and sometimes simply, not. If you own this collection I think you possess all the music from Burt you may ever desire. His genius its all here.
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