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what a loss to the world of music...
Bizarro jeff
Composer of the title song for THE BLOB.
Absolutely love his music, particularly the songs he and Hal David wrote for Dionne Warwick.
RIP to an amazing composer. 94 was a good run.
Quote from: Lunkenstein on February 09, 2023, 03:37:21 PMAbsolutely love his music, particularly the songs he and Hal David wrote for Dionne Warwick.
My two favourites:
Don't Make Me Over (https://youtu.be/dDblF-J6qvY)
Anyone Who Had a Heart (https://youtu.be/_42QFD6zy7g)
Quote from: Hepcat on February 09, 2023, 10:57:29 PM
My two favourites:
Don't Make Me Over (https://youtu.be/dDblF-J6qvY)
Anyone Who Had a Heart (https://youtu.be/_42QFD6zy7g)
Two of my favorites also, along with Walk On By.
Here's a neat version done for some tv special back then.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p9M744rDd40 (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p9M744rDd40)
I think Dionne Warwick has been my favorite female singer since I was a little kid. Voice of an angel.
Quote from: Mike Scott on February 09, 2023, 11:05:53 PMNever heard those two.
There's quite the story behind the first track. Hal David and Burt Bacharach had told a young Dionne Warwick that they were working on a song for her, but ended up giving it to another singer. When Dionne demanded to know why, the two hemmed and hawed about how the other girl was better suited for the song in this, that and the other way. Knowing that it was actually because she wasn't white, Dionne burst into tears at their implied criticism of her "suitability" and snapped "Don't make me over, man, accept me for what I am!" Stunned, Hal David and Burt Bacharach looked at each other with the realization that they'd just found the exact sentiment they needed to turn their young ingenue into a recording sensation.
I like the stark contrast in the
Don't Make Me Over video between the very awkward young Dionne stuffed into the formal gown and heels in which she could hardly walk and the raw power of her voice.
;)
But she'd never be quite that good again because, you see, they did rather quickly succeed in making her over. The second video is from just over a year later and she'd already had loads of polish added.
:(
RIP to the Man who it would seem scored the music to my Childhood