Essential Burt Bacharach - Various Artists - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

A multi-faceted composer, the great Burt Bacharach (born in 1928, he is 94 at this writing) has enjoyed major hits in numerous musical styles, including Top-40, pop, soul, R&B, jazz, bossa-nova, country, and movie soundtracks. He has also collaborated with a host of major lyricists, including Hal David and Bob Hilliard. Bacharach was named the “greatest living composer” by the Grammy panel that gave him a lifetime achievement award in 2008. This superb CD contains some of Bacharach’s most essential and enduring works.

Included here are classics like Dionne Warwick’s “Don’t Make Me Over,” Gene Pitney’s “Only Love Can Break a Heart,” Tommy Hunt’s “I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself,” and The Shirelles’ “Baby It’s You,” to name just a few.

Tracklist

1. Don't Make Me Over Dionne Warwick
2. I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself Tommy Hunt
3. Baby It's You the Shirelles
4. Only Love Can Break a Heart Gene Pitney
5. Long After Tonight is All Over Jimmy Radcliffe
6. I Smiled Yesterday Dionne Warwick
7. Any Day Now (My Wild, Beautiful Bird) Chuck Jackson
8. The Love of a Boy Timi Yuro
9. Mexican Divorce the Drifters
10. It's Love That Really Counts the Shirelles
11. Gotta Get a Girl Frankie Avalon
12. Waitin' For Charlie (To Come Home) Etta James
13. Magic Moments Perry Como
14. Johnny Get Angry Joanie Sommers
15. The Blob the Five Blobs
16. Tower of Strength Gloria Lynne
17. I Looked For You Charlie Gracie
18. Wishing and Hoping Dionne Warwick
19. (It's) Wonderful To Be Young Cliff Richard
20. Keep Away From Other Girls Helen Shapiro
21. These Desperate Hours Mel Tormi
22. Rosanne Burt Bacharach (Piano) With String Orchestra
23. The Miracle of St. Marie the Four Coins
24. Tower of Strength Gene McDaniels
25. That's Not the Answer Vi Velasco
26. The Story of My Life Marty Robbins
27. This Empty Place Dionne Warwick
28. Make It Easy On Yourself Jerry Butler

Label: Jackpot | Origin: Holland