Biography

Bacharach exposed music at McGill University and Mannes School of Music. In the 1950s and the early 1960s he was the piano player & bandleader for Marlene Dietrich. He teamed by using lyrist Hal David & others to write many popular songs in the Sixties and 1970s.

Bacharach's music has been sung by a total of popular singers including the Carpenters, Aretha Franklin, Jack Jones, Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield, Luther Vandross, and especially Dionne Warwick, who recorded his demonstration. His music, which is mostly classified when Easy listening has been praised for its distinctive melodies, sophisticated style, and lightly authoritative sense. He has the amount of 52 Top 40 hits. Additionally, numerous of his songs were adapted by jazz creative person of the instance, like Stan Getz and Wes Montgomery. A Bacharach-David composition "My Little Red Book", written for Manfred Mann in 1965, has become the rock standard.

He has been married 4 days, to Paula Stewart, actress Angie Dickinson, lyricist Carole Bayer Sager (with whom he collaborated in the total of pieces), & presently (as of 2003) Jane Hanson.

Around 1998 he collaborated on an album known as Painted From either Memory by owning singer/songwriter Elvis Costello.

Bacharach has got cameo roles inside the total of Hollywood movies including all triplet Austin Powers movies. His music is when well credited as providing inspiration for these film.

Known albums
Hitmaker! Burt Bacharach Plays His Hits (1965) ''What's Future Pussycat Soundtrack (1965) Email Out (1967) Casino Royale Soundtrack (1967) Produce it Real life in Yourself (1969) Butch Cassidy & The Sundace Kid Soundtrack (1969) Promises, Promises Soundtrack (1969) Burt Bacharach (1971) Residing Together (1974) Stock (1977) Woman (1979) A single Amazing Nighttime (1998) Painted From either Memory by using Elvis Costello (1998) Isley Meets Bacharach: On this button We are By owning Ronald Isley (2003)* At This Period'' (2005)

Hits
"Baby, It's You" (The Shirelles, 1962) "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (Gene Pitney, 1962, from a movie of the same title) "Don't Make Me Over" (Dionne Warwick, 1962) "Make it Easy On Yourself" (Jerry Butler, 1962) "Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa" (Gene Pitney, 1963) "Blue on Blue" (Bobby Vinton, 1963) "Anyone Who Had a Heart" (Dionne Warwick, 1963) "Wives and Lovers" (Jack Jones, 1963) "Walk On By" (Dionne Warwick, 1964, then Isaac Hayes,1970) "Wishin' and Hopin' " (Dusty Springfield, 1964) "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" (Sandie Shaw, 1964, then Naked Eyes, 1982) "A House is Not a Home" (Brook Benton, 1963, Dionne Warwick, 1964, then Luther Vandross, (1981) "What the World Needs Now Is Love" (Jackie DeShannon 1965) "What's New Pussycat?" (Tom Jones 1965, from a movie of the same title) "Alfie" (Cilla Black, 1966, originally from a movie of the same title) "My Little Red Book" (Love, 1966) "This Guy's in Love With You" (Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass 1967) "I Say a Little Prayer For You" (Dionne Warwick, 1967, then Aretha Franklin, 1968) "The Look of Love" (Dusty Springfield 1967 in the movie Casino Royale, then Sergio Mendes 1968) "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" (Dionne Warwick, 1968) "Promises, Promises" (Jill O'Hara, 1968 & Dionne Warwick, 1968) "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" (B.J. Thomas 1969, from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" (Dionne Warwick 1969, originally from a musical Promises, Promises) "Close to You" (Carpenters 1970) "One Less Bell to Answer" (a 5th Dimension 1970) "Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do)" (Christopher Cross, 1981, from a motion picture Arthur) "On My Own" (Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald (1986) "That's What Friends Are For" (1982) "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" (The White Stripes, 2003)