Music : The Best of Burt Bacharach

Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731454045223
Label: Polydor Group
Manufacturer: Polydor Group
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Polydor Group
Release Date: April 01, 1996
Running Time: 66 minutes
Studio: Polydor Group
Sales Rank: 20165

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Disc 1:

1. This Guy's In Love With You
2. The Look Of Love
3. I'll Never Fall In Love Again
4. Do You Know The Way To San Jose
5. What The World Needs Now Is Love
6. Alfie
7. Promises, Promises
8. (They Long To Be) Close To You
9. Make It Easy On Yourself
10. I Say A Little Prayer
11. Any Day Now
12. Pacific Coast Highway
13. Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
14. Trains And Boats And Planes
15. One Less Bell To Answer
16. Wives And Lovers
17. Don't Make Me Over
18. Living Together, Growing Together
19. Knowing When To Leave
20. The Windows Of The World

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Rating: - Pure Bacharach
The absolute joy of this album is that this is purely and simply Bacharach at his very best.

If you're looking for a 'various artists' or 'songs from the movies' compilation, this isn't it; this is for the Bacharach connoisseur - for those who want to hear the music orchestrated, performed and directed by the man himself, presented as he wants it to be heard. Those who have appreciated the special mellow sound that only Bacharach's own orchestral interpretation of his work can produce ... Read More

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Rating: - Why can't you have zero stars?
Bought this in the supermarket as I've always fancied some BB in my CD collection. All the good ones appeared to be on the disc. However, its just a collection of the instrumentals of his songs (therefore should it not be the 'music' of BB?). And to add insult to wallet injury the instrumentals are inferior to the original classics.

Totally misleading packaging.

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Rating: - A wonderful collection
Burt Bacharach, whose songs in their hit versions were generally performedby other artists, also released several albums under his own name.Spanning the second half of the 60's and the early 70's, these albumscontained particularly sophisticated, often lushly orchestrated versionsof his songs. Some versions were instrumental, some contained vocals byothers, and some featured Bacharach's own, often exemplary vocals.
This collection contains twenty of his very best songs in recordings takenfrom these ... Read More

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Rating: - Instrumental classics
This is not clear in the item listing, but this CD comprises intrumental versions of the Bacharach classics. Still good though, easy listening wise.

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