Burt Bacharach - Essential Recordings 1955-62 (various Artists)

Cat. no: 47773
Format: CD3
Barcode: 8436563181405
Release Date: 03 Sep 2021
Genre: Easy Listening

60 tracks across 3 CDs. Deluxe 10-panel digipak with 16-page booklet - original artwork, original as well as updated liner notes.”High-crafted pop music” Mojo Magazine

A multi-faceted composer, the great Burt Bacharach (born in 1928, he is 88 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 60-track, 3-CD set contains Bacharach’s most essential and enduring works from the beginning of his career, gathering the great sides he composed between 1955 and 1962. 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.

CD 1: Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over / Chuck Jackson: The Breaking Point / Gene Mcdaniels: Tower Of Strength / Helen Shapiro: Keep Away From Other Girls / Babs Tino: Forgive Me (For Giving You Such A Bad Time) / Tommy Hunt: I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself / Gene Pitney: Only Love Can Break A Heart / Michael Holliday: The Story Of My Life / Sonny James: Dream Big / Gene Vincent: Crazy Times / Don Gibson: Sea Of Heartbreak / The Five Blobs: The Blob / Del Shannon: The Answer To Everything / The Turbans: Three Friends (Two Lovers) / The Shirelles: Baby It’s You / The Drifters: Mexican Divorce / Marty Robbins: Sittin’ In A Tree House / Charlie Gracie: I Looked For You / Dionne Warwick: Wishing And Hoping / Perry Como: Magic Moments 

CD 2: Johnny Mathis: Warm And Tender / Jimmy Radcliffe: Long After Tonight Is All Over / Bobby Vee: Anonymous Phone Call / The Avons: We’re Only Young Once (Yeh, Yeh, Yeh) / The Four Coins: The Miracle Of St. Marie / Steve Lawrence: Loving Is A Way Of Living / Etta James: Waitin’ For Charlie (To Come Home) / Tommy Sands: Love In A Goldfish Bowl / Margaret Whiting: Hot Spell / Timi Yuro: The Love Of A Boy / Jerry Butler: Make It Easy On Yourself / Vi Velasco: That’s Not The Answer / The Russells: Wastin’ Away For You / Gloria Lynne: (You Don’t Have To Be) A Tower Of Strength / Chuck Jackson: Any Day Now (My Wild, Beautiful Bird) / Carl Dobkins, Jr.: My Heart Is An Open Book / Sophia Loren: Donne-Moi-Ma Chance (Too Late To Worry) / Dionne Warwick: This Empty Place / The Drifters: Loneliness Or Happiness / Cliff Richard: (It’s) Wonderful To Be Young

CD 3: Jane Morgan: With Open Arms / Dee Clark: You’re Telling Our Secrets / Marlene Dietrich: Sag Mir Wo De Blumen Sind / Joey Powers: Don’t Envy Me / Dick Van Dyke: Three Wheels On My Wagon / Merv Griffin: Along Came Joe / Jack Jones: Dreamin’ All The Time / Joanie Sommers: Johnny Get Angry / The Four Aces: Paradise Island / Gloria Lambert: Moon Man / Mel Torm : These Desperate Hours / The Eligibles: Faker, Faker / Jimmy Radcliffe: (There Goes) The Forgotten Man / The Shepherd Sisters: Deeply / The Exotics: Manpower / Buddy Clinton: Take Me To Your Ladder (I’ll See Your Leader Later) / Cathy Carr: Wild Honey / Burt Bacharach (Piano): Rosanne / George Hamilton: Errand Of Mercy / Dionne Warwick: I Smiled Yesterday