Herb Alpert’s version of “This Guy’s In Love With You,” became a chart-topping single, in 1968. “He knew that to achieve the greatness of the music they were writing, which was extraordinary, they needed some extraordinary voices.” While Burt Bacharach recorded albums, singing songs he cowrote with David, “It wasn’t the kind of voice he would build a career around,” said Newmyer. Warwick’s hits with now-standards written by Bacharach and David include “Walk on By,” “Do You Know the Way to San Jose,” “I Say a Little Prayer” and “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again,” written for the 1968 musical “Promises, Promises.” ‘Extraordinary songs needed extraordinary voices’ “Burt knew she had the vocal skills to pull off anything that he wanted to dream up melodically, and she had an incredibly agile voice, full of adult emotions,” said Newmyer. The pair began their collaboration in 1957, but in 19, Dionne Warwick had two hits with Bacharach/David compositions: “Don’t Make Me Over” and “Anyone Who Had a Heart.”Įxtending through 1981, Warwick charted 38 singles cowritten or produced by Bacharach and David. “Amazing tempo changes, incredibly beautiful chords, orchestrations - things that you just didn’t hear on the radio.” With Bacharach’s music and David’s lyrics, “They managed to write these two-and-a-half or three-minute songs that felt like you’d watched a whole movie, with the emotion that coursed through every one of their songs,” said Newmyer.
His concert production company is presenting “The Songs of Burt Bacharach & Hal David,” Friday, at The Birchmere, in Alexandria, Virginia. “Burt Bacharach and Hal David were songsmiths that worked out of the Brill Building - essentially a songwriting factory in New York City - alongside other great songwriters like Carole King and Gerry Goffin,” said Newmyer. “But every now and then, these great, catchy songs would sneak in there, and invariably, they were written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David,” said Ron Newmyer, who will host a concert paying tribute to two of America’s greatest songwriters this Friday. In the early 1960s, pop radio and music charts were dominated by the British Invasion and Motown. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.
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