DESCRIPTION ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TRACKLIST • 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’. TRACK LISTING DISC ONE The First Book of Songs 1952-59 1 Nat King Cole – Once in a Blue Moon 2 Patti Page – Keep Me In Mind 3 Mel Torme – These Desperate Hours 4 Sherry Parsons – Peggy’s In The Pantry 5 The Gallahads – The Morning Mail 6 Alan Dale – I Cry More 7 June Valli – Beauty Isn’t Everything 8 Della Reese – How About? 9 Johnny Mathis – Warm And Tender 10 Jo Stafford – Underneath The Overpass 11 Marty Robbins – The Story Of My Life 12 Michael Holliday – The Story Of My Life 13 Jerry Lewis – Sad Sack 14 Gale Storm – Winter Warm 15 Peggy Lee – Uninvited Dream 16 Bob Manning – Love Bank 17 Perry Como – Magic Moments 18 The Four Preps – Humble Pie 19 Bernie Nee – Country Music Holiday 20 Patti Page – Another Time, Another Place 21 Margaret Whiting – Hot Spell 22 Mary Mayo – It Seemed So Right Last Night 23 Marty Robbins – Sitting in a Tree House 24 Tony Bennett – The Night That Heaven Fell 25 The Five Blobs – The Blob 26 The Four Coins – Wendy Wendy 27 Marty Robbins – The Last Time I Saw My Heart 28 Sonny James – Dream Big 29 Steve Lawrence – Loving Is A Way Of Giving 30 Jack Jones – Make Room For The Joy 31 Four Aces – Paradise Island 32 Burt Bacharach – Searching Wind 33 Burt Bacharach – Rosanne DISC TWO Long Ago Last Summer 1959-61 1 Gloria Lambert – Moon Man 2 John Ashley – The Hangman 3 Jane Morgan – With Open Arms 4 Johnny Mathis – Heavenly 5 The Eligibles – Faker Faker 6 Gene McDaniels – In Times Like These 7 Johnny Mathis – Faithfully 8 Larry Hall – A Girl Like You 9 Rosemary June – Your Lips Are Warmer Than Your Heart 10 Paul Hampton – Two Hour Honeymoon 11 Paul Hampton – Creams 12 The Avons – You’re Only Young Once (Yeh Yeh Yeh) 13 Keely Smith – Close 14 Charlie Gracie – I Looked for you 15 Diana Trask – Long Ago Last Summer 16 Everit Herter – Boys Were Made For Girls 17 Rusty Draper – Ten Thousand Years Ago 18 The Wanderers – I Could Make You Mine 19 Buddy Clinton – Joanie’s Forever 20 Dick Van Dyke – Three Wheels On My Wagon 21 Frankie Avalon – Gotta Get a Girl 22 Connie Stevens – And This Is Mine 23 The Turbans – Three Friends (Two Lovers) 24 The Rangoons – Moon Guitar 25 The Drifters – (Don’t Go) Please Stay 26 Tommy Sands – Love In A Goldfish Bowl 27 Chuck Jackson – I Wake Up Crying 28 Del Shannon – The Answer To Everything 29 The Shepherd Sisters – Deeply 30 Gloria Lynne – You Don’t Have To Be A Tower Of Strength 31 The Four Coins – The Miracle Of St. Marie 32 The Shirelles – Baby It’s You DISC THREE Make It Easy On Yourself 1962 1 Jerry Butler – Make It Easy On Yourself 2 Sophia Loren – Donne Moi Ma Chance 3 Jack Jones – Dreamin’ All The Time 4 Jack Jones – Pick Up The Pieces 5 The Four Coins – The Windows Of Heaven 6 Gene McDaniels – Another Tear Falls 7 The Drifters – Mexican Divorce 8 Etta James – Waiting For Charlie To Come Home 9 Jane Morgan – Forever My Love 10 Gene Pitney – (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance 11 The Fairmount Singers – (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance 12 The Exotics – Manpower 13 Chuck Jackson – Any Day Now (My Wild And Beautiful Bird) 14 Babs Tino – Forgive Me (For Giving You Such A Bad Time) 15 Timi Yuro – The Love Of A Boy 16 Andy Williams – Don’t You Believe It 17 Gene Pitney – Only Love Can Break a Heart 18 Gene Pitney – Little Betty Falling Star 19 Tommy Hunt – I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself 20 Tommy Hunt – Don’t Make Me Over 21 The Shirelles – It’s Love That Really Counts (In The Long Run) 22 Jimmy Radcliffe-(There Goes)The Forgotten Man 23 Helen Shapiro – Keep Away From Other Girls 24 Dionne Warwick – Don’t Make Me Over 25 Dionne Warwick – I Smiled Yesterday 26 Joey Powers – Don’t Envy Me 27 Bobby Vee – Anonymous Phone Call 28 Paul Evans – The Bell That Couldn’t Jingle 29 Marlene Dietrich – Kleine Treue Nachtigall (Small True Nightingale) 30 Marlene Dietrich – Sag Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind (Where Have All The Flowers Gone) DISC FOUR Burt Bacharach / Influences and Inspirations 1 Mel Torme – The Christmas Song 2 Claude Debussy – Reflets dans l’eau from Images Pour Piano Book 1 – Marcelle Meyer (piano) Maurice Ravel – Daphnis & Chloe – No 2 15.39 3 Lever Du Jour 4 Pantomime 5 Danse Générale – Detroit Symphony Orchestra / Paul Paray Darius Milhaud – from Saudades do Brasil 6 Overture 7 Soracaba 8 Botafogo 9 Corcovado – Concert Arts Orchestra / Darius Milhaud 10 Bohuslav Martinu – Parable Of A Sculpture. Andante Pastorale from The Parables – Czech Philharmonic / Karel Ancerl 11 Henry Cowell – Intro to The Tides Of Manaunaun 12 Henry Cowell – Tides Of Manaunaun 13 Arnold Schoenberg – Mondestrunken (Moonstruck) from Pierrot Lunaire – Jeanne Héricard (soprano) / Hans Rosbaud 14 Alban Berg – Allegro misterioso from Lyric Suite Juilliard String Quartet 15 Anton Webern – Langsam, Marcia funebre (Funeral March) from 6 Pieces for Orchestra, Op 6 SWR Baden-Baden / Hans Rosbaud 16 Leonard Bernstein – Masque from The Age of Anxiety – Lukas Foss (piano) New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein 17 Gil Evans Orchestra – La Nevada 18 Tadd Dameron – Fontainebleau 19 Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie – An Oscar for Treadwell 20 Count Basie – April in Paris 21 Agostinho Dos Santos and Roberto Menescal – A Felicidade (from Black Orpheus)
