Love Songs of Burt Bacharach

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 1, 1999)
• Original Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hip-O Records
• ASIN: B00000J7QG
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #212,472 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Say a Little Prayer

2. Do You Know the Way to San Jose?

3. I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself

4. Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head

5. What the World Needs Now Is Love

6. The Look of Love

7. What's New Pussycat?

8. Baby It's You

9. Magic Moments

10. Make It Easy on Yourself

11. Wishin' and Hopin'

12. You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)

13. Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)

14. Always Something There to Remind Me

15. Walk on By

16. Anyone Who Had a Heart

17. On My Own

18. This House Is Empty Now

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Classic original Bachrach tunes, 1960's production, July 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Love Songs of Burt Bacharach (Audio CD)

Burt Bacharach's music is infused into the subconscious of everyone who listened to popular music in the 60's and 70's. This CD is a compilation of the airplay hit versions of Bacharach/David songs. They are interesting, but Burt is not playing on them (except for the last song w. Elvis Costello). The original production quality of many of these 60's cuts is pretty rough by today's standards. I was looking for more polished Bacharach-performed orchestrations... If you want to hear Burt play his songs, keep looking thru the CD bin. I did not enjoy Jerry Butler's version of "Make It Easy on Yourself", which I think is one of Burt's best songs ... The Naked Eyes version of "Always Something There to Remind Me" is a trite 80's jingle. Why is it so hard to find a CD with "THis Guy's in Love" on it? Jackie DeShannon does a great job with "What the World Needs Now" and Sergio Mendes cooks with "Look of Love".

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A fair sampling of classic Bacharach, but not the best, August 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Love Songs of Burt Bacharach (Audio CD)

Contrary to the last reviewer's comments, Burt was actually in the studio when many of these cuts were recorded, and whether or not he actually sat at the piano, he shaped every aspect of the arrangements he supervised. That said, this compilation is a bit of an odd mix of classic "original" versions and later versions. The Rhino Records box set has the best versions of most of these songs, and would be a much better choice if you can afford to spring for 3 CDs.As to Burt's own slick orchestral intrumental versions of his hits, I find the mid-fi 1960s radio versions infinitely more charming. Burt's reputation as the elevator music king was certainly reinforced by those mediocre solo albums he released in the 60s and 70s.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Love Songs of Burt Bacharach, May 20, 2000

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Philip Le Bas (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love Songs of Burt Bacharach (Audio CD)

The Australian pressing (Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd - Catalouge No.541 564 2) of the above is better. It has 22 songs including "This Guy's In Love With You" - Herb Alpert, "Magic Moments" - Perry Como and some others not on the US CD. It sure brought back some memories from the 60's