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Four CD collection following the songwriting beginnings of Burt Bacharach. Four CD collection following the songwriting beginnings of Burt Bacharach.

Featuring vintage Bacharach interpreted by Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Tony Bennett, Frankie Avalon, Gene Pitney, Andy Williams and many more.

Including a CD of Bacharach’s Influences and Inspirations.

Burt Bacharach revolutionised popular songwriting, employing a previously unimagined technical sophistication that would find full expression in the 1960s, when with an astonishing run of memorable hits, he and his lyricist partner Hal David ruled the pop charts.

Inspired by his love of the French Impressionist composers, Brazilian folk music, Bebop and modernist jazz, Bacharach won the respect of everyone from Brian Wilson to Bill Evans, to Frank Zappa, but his early years had been ones of struggle and frustrating compromise.
This collection reveals an eclectic apprenticeship (a dizzying world of Frankie Avalon- esque US teen idols, male and female soul singers, doo-wop and close harmony groups, B movie theme tunes, torch singers, crooners and novelty records) that culminated in the landmark first hits; ‘Magic Moments’, ‘The Story of My Life’, ‘Make It Easy on Yourself’, ‘Baby It's You’, ‘I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself’ and (with the emergence of Bacharach & David's greatest interpreter Dionne Warwick) ‘Don't Make Me Over’. CD1: The First Book of Songs 1952-59
Nat King Cole - Once in a Blue Moon
Patti Page - Keep Me In Mind
Mel Torme - These Desperate Hours
Sherry Parsons - Peggy's In The Pantry
The Gallahads - The Morning Mail
Alan Dale - I Cry More
June Valli - Beauty Isn't Everything
Della Reese - How About?
Johnny Mathis - Warm And Tender
Jo Stafford - Underneath The Overpass
Marty Robbins - The Story Of My Life
Michael Holliday - The Story Of My Life
Jerry Lewis - Sad Sack
Gale Storm - Winter Warm
Peggy Lee - Uninvited Dream
Bob Manning - Love Bank
Perry Como - Magic Moments
The Four Preps Humble Pie
Bernie Nee - Country Music Holiday
Patti Page Another Time, Another Place
Margaret Whiting - Hot Spell
Mary Mayo - It Seemed So Right Last Night
Marty Robbins - Sitting in a Tree House
Tony Bennett - The Night That Heaven Fell
The Five Blobs - The Blob
The Four Coins - Wendy Wendy
Marty Robbins - The Last Time I Saw My Heart
Sonny James - Dream Big
Steve Lawrence - Loving Is A Way Of Giving
Jack Jones - Make Room For The Joy
Four Aces - Paradise Island
Burt Bacharach - Searching Wind
Burt Bacharach - Rosanne
CD2: Long Ago Last Summer 1959-61
Gloria Lambert - Moon Man
John Ashley - The Hangman
Jane Morgan - With Open Arms
Johnny Mathis - Heavenly
The Eligibles - Faker Faker
Gene McDaniels - In Times Like These
Johnny Mathis - Faithfully
Larry Hall - A Girl Like You
Rosemary June - Your Lips Are Warmer Than Your Heart
Paul Hampton - Two Hour Honeymoon
Paul Hampton - Creams
The Avons - You're Only Young Once (Yeh Yeh Yeh)
Keely Smith - Close
Charlie Gracie - I Looked for you
Diana Trask - Long Ago Last Summer
Everit Herter - Boys Were Made For Girls
Rusty Draper - Ten Thousand Years Ago
The Wanderers - I Could Make You Mine
Buddy Clinton - Joanie's Forever
Dick Van Dyke - Three Wheels On My Wagon
Frankie Avalon - Gotta Get a Girl
Connie Stevens - And This Is Mine
The Turbans - Three Friends (Two Lovers)
The Rangoons - Moon Guitar
The Drifters - (Don't Go) Please Stay
Tommy Sands - Love In A Goldfish Bowl
Chuck Jackson - I Wake Up Crying
Del Shannon - The Answer To Everything
The Shepherd Sisters - Deeply
Gloria Lynne - You Don't Have To Be A Tower Of Strength
The Four Coins - The Miracle Of St. Marie
The Shirelles - Baby It's You
CD3: Make It Easy On Yourself 1962
Jerry Butler - Make It Easy On Yourself
Sophia Loren Donne Moi Ma Chance
Jack Jones - Dreamin' All The Time
Jack Jones - Pick Up The Pieces
The Four Coins - The Windows Of Heaven
Gene McDaniels - Another Tear Falls
The Drifters - Mexican Divorce
Etta James - Waiting For Charlie To Come Home
Jane Morgan - Forever My Love
Gene Pitney - (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance
The Fairmount Singers - (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance
The Exotics - Manpower
Chuck Jackson - Any Day Now (My Wild And Beautiful Bird)
Babs Tino - Forgive Me (For Giving You Such A Bad Time)
Timi Yuro - The Love Of A Boy
Andy Williams - Don't You Believe It
Gene Pitney - Only Love Can Break a Heart
Gene Pitney - Little Betty Falling Star
Tommy Hunt - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
Tommy Hunt - Don't Make Me Over
The Shirelles It's Love That Really Counts (In The Long Run)
Jimmy Radcliffe-(There Goes)The Forgotten Man
Helen Shapiro - Keep Away From Other Girls
Dionne Warwick - Don't Make Me Over
Dionne Warwick - I Smiled Yesterday
Joey Powers - Don't Envy Me
Bobby Vee - Anonymous Phone Call
Paul Evans - The Bell That Couldn't Jingle
Marlene Dietrich - Kleine Treue Nachtigall (Small True Nightingale)
Marlene Dietrich - Sag Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind (Where Have All The Flowers Gone)
CD4: Influences and Inspirations
Mel Torme - The Christmas Song
Claude Debussy - Reflets dans l'eau from Images Pour Piano Book 1 - Marcelle Meyer (piano) Maurice Ravel - Daphnis & Chloe - No 2 15.39
Lever Du Jour
Pantomime
Danse Générale - Detroit Symphony Orchestra / Paul Paray Darius Milhaud - from Saudades do Brasil
Overture
Soracaba
Botafogo
Corcovado - Concert Arts Orchestra / Darius Milhaud
Bohuslav Martin - Parable Of A Sculpture. Andante Pastorale from The Parables - Czech Philharmonic / Karel Anerl
Henry Cowell - Intro to The Tides Of Manaunaun
Henry Cowell - Tides Of Manaunaun
Arnold Schoenberg - Mondestrunken (Moonstruck) from Pierrot Lunaire - Jeanne Héricard (soprano) / Hans Rosbaud
Alban Berg - Allegro misterioso from Lyric Suite Juilliard String Quartet
Anton Webern - Langsam, Marcia funebre (Funeral March) from 6 Pieces for Orchestra, Op 6 SWR Baden-Baden / Hans Rosbaud
Leonard Bernstein - Masque from The Age of Anxiety - Lukas Foss (piano) New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein
Gil Evans Orchestra - La Nevada
Tadd Dameron - Fontainebleau
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie - An Oscar for Treadwell
Count Basie - April in Paris
Agostinho Dos Santos and Roberto Menescal - A Felicidade (from Black Orpheus)

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