Remembering Burt Bacharach, master of the melodic hook
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Remembering Burt Bacharach, master of the melodic hook

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Remembering Burt Bacharach, master of the melodic hook No '60s pop composer wrote more sophisticated songs than Bacharach, who died Feb. 8. Songs written by pop composer Burt Bacharach include "Walk On By," "Wishin' And Hopin'," "What The World Needs Now," "What's New, Pussycat?" KEVIN WHITEHEAD, BYLINE: Marty Robbins, 1957, with Burt Bacharach's first hit, an early collaboration with his longtime lyricist, Hal David. On that chipper song about failure, "Do You Know The Way To San Jose," the hook is a Morse code bounce on that melody's lowest note.

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Burt Bacharach: 20 essential songs
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Burt Bacharach: 20 essential songs

LA Times  

Burt Bacharach plays the piano in his Hollywood home in 1969 as wife Angie Dickinson looks on. The Drifters, “Mexican Divorce” After crafting a witty arrangement to illustrate Bob Hilliard’s lyric about “an old adobe house where you leave your past behind,” Bacharach met Dionne Warwick, then a background singer, at the recording session for this Drifters tune. Dionne Warwick, …

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