No '60s pop composer wrote more sophisticated songs than Bacharach, who died Feb. 8. Dozens of his best songs endure for all the right reasons; they're inventive, challenging and linger in your ear.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What the world needs now is Burt, sweet Burt, and there’s a bereft feeling to be had in knowing we won’t be getting any more of ...

Singer Megon McDonough is embracing Leap Year 2024. Lake Forest resident McDonough performs her show, “Leap of Love: The Burt Bacharach Songbook,” at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 29 in The Alley room at Carnivale ...

Music poured out of Burt Bacharach like martinis out of an ice-cold shaker. For more than half a century, the composer, producer, conductor and sometime performer provided the soundtrack for a ...

You might not associate the orchestral pop of Burt Bacharach with Oasis. However, one of the band’s best-known B-sides was adapted from a Bacharach tune. It began when Noel Gallagher repurposed the ...

My final post on Burt Bacharach will look at one of the lowest points in his life that resulted in a song, a theme for ABC's Movie of the Week and a tragic end. We tend to think of Burt as a guy who ...

This is FRESH AIR. Songs written by pop composer Burt Bacharach include "Walk On By," "Wishin' And Hopin'," "What The World Needs Now," "What's New, Pussycat?" and "Wives And Lovers." And that's just ...

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