Burt Bacharach - Essential Burt Bacharach - Celebrating 95 Years of Burt Bacharach

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£15.53

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: 772328
Barcode: 8436559469920
Release Date: 10 Mar 2023
Genre: Easy Listening

180g virgin vinyl - audiophile pressing, celebrating 95 years of Burt Bacharach.

Considered one of the greatest composers in popular music, this superb LP contains 20 of his most essential and enduring songs, performed here by such celebrated stars as Dionne Warwick, Jerry Butler, The Shirelles, Chuck Jackson, The Drifters, Jack Jones, Timi Yuro, Del Shannon, Etta James, Gene Pitney, and others.

'The songs of Burt Bacharach occupy the same brain space as nursery rhymes and Beatles tracks: you don't remember not knowing them.' - The Guardian

'These songs played a big part in shaping my tastes in music.' - Elvis Costello

Tracks: Burt Bacharach - Rosanne / Mel Tormé - These Desperate Hours / Jack Jones - Dreamin All The Time / Gene Pitney - Only Love Can Break A Heart / Timi Yuro - The Love Of A Boy / Chuck Jackson - Any Day Now (My Wild, Beautiful Bird) / Etta James - Waitin For Charlie (To Come Home) / The Shirelles - It's Love That Really Counts / Jerry Butler - Make It Easy On Yourself / Dionne Warwick - I Smiled Yesterday / Gene McDaniels - Tower Of Strength / Dionne Warwick - Wishing And Hoping / Jimmy Radcliffe - Long After Tonight Is All Over / Dionne Warwick - This Empty Place / The Drifters - Mexican Divorce / Baby It's You - The Shirelles / Del Shannon - The Answer To Everything / Michael Holliday - The Story Of My Life / Tommy Hunt - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself / Dionne Warwick - Don't Make Me Over