Burt bacharach

'Sometimes it flows smoothly. At others it's like rowing a boat upstream,' he said of working

Songwriter whose hits, including I Say a Little Prayer and Walk On By, became classics of easy-listening pop

Burt Bacharach (1928-2023)

An Ivy Style reader recently submitted this fine photo of composer Burt Bacharach circa 1966. Fans of the Great American Songbook will likely consider him the last in a line of succession that stretches back to the parlor tunes of the early 1900s. After Bacharach’s hits for Dionne Warwick in the late ’60s and early ...

Burt Bacharach, who became one of the 20th century’s most celebrated songwriters with hits such as Walk on By and Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head, has died. He was 94.

Adam Gopnik on the songwriter Burt Bacharach, who died on Wednesday, and whose sound, Gopnik says, was as singular as that of a composer like George Gershwin.

At home, in the studio, on TV, at the Oscars and on stage with countless singing legends from Dionne to Dusty … here are the great hit-maker’s finest moments in a career that took off in the 60s and rarely flagged

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Burt Bacharach, early 70s

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1998 CD release of "The Look Of Love (The Burt Bacharach Collection)" on Discogs.