Tonight, I’m featuring the music of Burt Bacharach. There’s a wealth of material out there, and this show will just scratch the surface. If you only know Burt by his Dionne Warwick songs, this show will introduce you to new versions, as well as new songs and new artists covering them. Here’s what’s on the show tonight:
Close To You – Paul Weller (made popular by the Carpenters)
“Always Something There To Remind Me” – (most popularly by Naked Eyes)
“My LIttle Red Book” – Love (also made popular by Manfred Mann)
“Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head” – Manic Street Preachers (made popular by B. J. Thomas)
“Any Day Now” – Paul Carrack (most popularly by Ronnie Milsap)
“I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself (most popularly by Dusty Springfield)
“This Guy’s In Love With You” – Fastball (most popularly by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass)
“What The World Needs Now” – Aimee Mann (made popular by Jackie Deshannon)
“I’ll Never Fall In Love Again” – Splitsville (made popular by Dionne Warwick)
“Walk On By” – The Stranglers (made popular by Dionne Warwick)
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I’m surprised that “say a little prayer” didn’t make the show, but loved the show anyway.
That’s pretty spooky; I sent a suggestion for a version of “Say A Little Prayer” just yesterday, before I saw this new show 🙂
There’s also a version of “I’ll Never Fall In Love Again” by Deacon Blue (a late-80s/early-90s Scottish band), where again, they slow it down. I think there’s a pattern emerging here…
Great show once again…I thought Fastball’s entry was pretty interesting, especially when they switch time signatures about a third of the way into their song. Aimee Mann kind of phoned in her cover of “What The World Needs Now,” but I LOVED the Splitsville track. Awesome!
Love the show, but Close To You is a Paul Williams song.
I don’t know if Paul ever sang it, but it was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
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I really enjoyed this episode – always loved this guy’s music and have found some wonderful cover’s out there as well. Thanks for finding these gems!
And for most obscure cover, perhaps: Jim Steinman did a little one-record side project once called Pandora’s Box. It was his attempt to put together an all-girl vocal band, using at least one of Meat Loaf’s previous background singers. (Ellen Foley, maybe? I’d have to look it up.) This was around 1986 or so, during one of his non-working feuds with Meat Loaf. That group also did a cover of “Little Red Book.” I didn’t realize until just now that it wasn’t a Steinman song. . .
Now for the trivia: That album also includes the original version, I believe, of Steinman’s “It’s All Coming Back To Me Now,” which was popularized by Celine Dion more than a decade later, as produced again by Steinman.