The Burt Bacharach revival was one of the most pleasing things about pop music in the late '90s, but it did produce an abundance of reissues, many of which seemed superfluous. So, it may be easy to dismiss Hip-O's Love Songs of Burt Bacharach as an unnecessary compilation, especially since it arrived in the summer of 1999, when the revival was starting to fade. That would be unfortunate because it's one of the best Bacharach compilations of the CD age. True, it's nowhere near comprehensive (partic...   [ read more ]

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Like Rhino's exquisite three-disc The Look of Love, this set does not concentrate on proper Burt Bacharach recordings. Instead, it contains versions of Bacharach's greatest songs, usually the greatest versions -- or cuts that are damn close to the greatest versions. And, really, that's what makes it magical, since Bacharach wasn't the best interpreter of his material -- vocalists like Dionne Warwick, Sandie Shaw, Gene Pitney, Dusty Springfield, and the Shirelles were. This doe...   [ read more ]

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Performed by Mel Torme, Sherry Parsons, The Gallahads, Jun Valli, Marty Robbins, Gale Storm, Bob Manning, Bob Manning, Jo Stafford, Peggy Lee, Jerry Lewis, Michael Holliday, The Four Preps, The Four Blobs, The Four Coins and Joe Williams and The Count Basie Orchestra. Burt Bacharach revolutionized popular songwriting, employing a previously unimagined technical sophistication that would find full expression in the sixties when with an astonishing run of unforgettable hits, he and his lyricist partner Hal D...   [ read more ]

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