Magic Moments: The Definitive Burt Bacharach Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  What the World Needs Now Is Love

  Jackie DeShannon
  3:15
  3.6 ★
• 2
  (They Long to Be) Close to You

  Carpenters
  4:35
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head

  B.J. Thomas
  3:01
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Reach Out for Me

  Nancy Wilson
  2:28
• 5
  Baby, It’s You

  The Shirelles
  2:41
• 6
  Walk on By

  Dionne Warwick
  2:55
  4.8 ★
• 7
  The Look of Love

  Dusty Springfield
  3:33
  5.0 ★
• 8
  I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself

  Tommy Hunt
  2:52
• 9
  Send Me No Flowers

  Doris Day
  2:14
• 10
  Gotta Get a Girl

  Frankie Avalon
  2:08
• 11
  Wives and Lovers

  Jack Jones
  2:30
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Alfie

  Cilla Black
  2:40
• 13
  This Guy’s in Love With You

  Herb Alpert
  3:59
  3.5 ★
• 14
  Promise Her Anything

  Tom Jones
  2:35
• 15
  It’s Wonderful to Be Young (alternate take)

  Cliff Richard
  2:30
• 16
  Crazy Times

  Gene Vincent
  2:13
• 17
  I Looked for You

  Charlie Gracie
  2:14
• 18
  The Blob

  The Five Blobs
  2:39
• 19
  So Long Johnny

  Jackie DeShannon
  2:27
• 20
  A House Is Not a Home

  Shirley Bassey
  3:28
• 21
  Nikki
  2:22
• 22
  Don’t You Believe It

  Andy Williams
  2:30
• 23
  (There Goes) The Forgotten Man

  Jimmy Radcliffe
  2:49
• 24
  Trains and Boats and Planes

  Billy J. Kramer
  2:49
• 25
  Casino Royale

  Herb Alpert
  2:38
  5.0 ★
• 26
  Anyone Who Had a Heart

  Dionne Warwick
  3:12
• 27
  The Windows of the World

  Bobbie Gentry
  3:00
• 28
  Once in a Blue Moon (instrumental)

  Nat King Cole
  2:57
• CD 2
• 1
  Magic Moments

  Perry Como
  2:42
  3.1 ★
• 2
  Do You Know the Way to San Jose

  Dionne Warwick
  2:55
• 3
  I Say a Little Prayer

  Aretha Franklin
  3:33
  4.4 ★
• 4
  Wishin’ and Hopin’

  Dusty Springfield
  2:56
  4.5 ★
• 5
  Make It Easy on Yourself

  The Walker Brothers
  3:14
  5.0 ★
• 6
  (There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me

  Sandie Shaw
  2:40
• 7
  Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
  2:28
• 8
  I’ll Never Fall in Love Again

  Dionne Warwick
  3:04
• 9
  Please Stay

  The Drifters
  2:17
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Tower of Strength

  Gene McDaniels
  2:17
• 11
  The Story of My Life

  Marty Robbins
  2:34
• 12
  What’s New Pussycat

  Tom Jones
  2:20
  3.5 ★
• 13
  That’s Not the Answer

  Vi Velasco
  2:19
• 14
  Don’t Make Me Over

  Dionne Warwick
  3:23
• 15
  Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)

  Chuck Jackson
  3:22
• 16
  (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance

  Gene Pitney
  3:00
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Mexican Divorce

  The Drifters
  2:35
• 18
  Third Window From the Right

  Dean Barlow
  2:33
• 19
  Rain From the Skies

  Adam Wade
  2:57
• 20
  How About

  Della Reese
  2:25
• 21
  Keep Away From Other Girls

  Helen Shapiro
  2:26
• 22
  Made in Paris

  Trini Lopez
  2:22
• 23
  It’s Love That Really Counts (in the Long Run)

  The Merseybeats
  2:03
• 24
  My Little Red Book

  Manfred Mann
  2:27
• 25
  This Empty Place

  The Searchers
  2:08
• 26
  Pacific Coast Highway
  3:23
• CD 3
• 1
  That’s What Friends Are For

  Dionne Warwick
  4:16
  4.0 ★
• 2
  God Give Me Strength

  Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach
  4:43
• 3
  What’s in Goodbye

  Will Young
  3:06
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Arthur’s Theme (The Best You Can Do)

  Christopher Cross
  3:55
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Heartlight

  Neil Diamond
  4:25
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Go Ask Shakespeare

  Burt Bacharach & Rufus Wainwright
  5:45
• 7
  Who Are These People

  Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach
  4:15
• 8
  South American Getaway
  5:15
• 9
  Everybody’s Out of Town

  B.J. Thomas
  2:42
• 10
  Odds and Ends

  Dionne Warwick
  3:27
• 11
  Thirty Miles of Railway Tracks

  The Hammond Brothers
  2:27
• 12
  Long After Tonight Is All Over

  Irma Thomas
  2:29
• 13
  Let the Music Play

  The Drifters
  2:37
• 14
  Paper Mache

  Dionne Warwick
  2:59
• 15
  One Less Bell to Answer

  Keely Smith
  2:45
• 16
  London Life

  Anita Harris
  2:54
• 17
  Blue Guitar

  Richard Chamberlain
  2:52
• 18
  The Land of Make Believe

  The Drifters
  2:35
• 19
  You’ll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)

  The Stylistics
  3:39
• 20
  Just Friends

  Carole Bayer Sager
  3:44
• 21
  Hasbrook Heights
  3:11

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Here I Am: Isley Meets Bacharach

Here I Am: Isley Meets Bacharach 2003

The Sweetest Punch

The Sweetest Punch 1999

The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection

The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection 1998

Painted From Memory

Painted From Memory 1998

The Best of Burt Bacharach

The Best of Burt Bacharach 1996

Release credits

• Allen Sides
  engineer [5]
• Aretha Franklin
  lead vocals [3], piano [3]
• Arif Mardin
  arranger [3]
• Assa Drori
  concertmaster [4]
• B.J. Thomas
  vocal [3]
• Bill Davis
  guitar [3.13, 3.18, 2.9]
• Bob Messenger
  woodwind [2]
• Burt Bacharach
  arranger [2.26, 3.1, 3.5, 1.13], conductor [3.5, 3.8, 1.3, 2.7, 2.26], producer [3.1, 3.5, 2.26]
• Carole Bayer Sager
  arranger [1], producer [1, 5]
• Charlie Harris
  double bass [28]
• Charlie Thomas
  tenor vocals [2.9, 3.13, 3.18]
• Chet Himes
  mix [4]
• Christopher Cross
  arranger [4], lead vocals [4]
• Craig Hundley
  synthesizer [5]
• Danny Woodhams
  bass [2]
• David Foster
  piano [5]
• Dee Dee Warwick
  vocal [13, 18]
• Dick Bogert
  engineer [2]
• Dionne Warwick
  lead vocals [1], solo [1], vocal [1.6, 1.26, 2.2, 3.10, 3.13, 3.18]
• Dock Green
  baritone vocals [9]
• Doris Troy
  vocal [13, 18]
• Douglass Strawn
  woodwind [2]
• Elton John
  guest [1], lead vocals [1], piano [1]
• Gary Chapman
  arranger [18], conductor [18]
• Gene Pearson
  baritone vocals [13, 18]
• Gladys Knight
  additional [1], guest [1], lead vocals [1]
• Hal Blaine
  drums (drum set) [2]
• Herb Alpert
  arranger [13, 25], producer [13, 25], vocal [13]
• Humberto Gatica
  engineer [5]
• Irvin Talbot
  conductor [16]
• Jack Costanzo
  bongos [28]
• Jack Daugherty
  producer [2]
• Jerry Jemmott
  bass [3]
• Jerry Moss
  producer [13, 25]
• Jerry Wexler
  producer [3]
• Jim Horn
  woodwind [2]
• Jim Keltner
  drums (drum set) [5]
• Joe Osborn
  bass [2]
• Joe Reisman
  arranger [1]
• John Arrias
  engineer [5]
• John Collins
  guitar [28]
• John Franz
  producer [4]
• John Guess
  additional [4]
• Johnny Moore
  tenor vocals [18]
• Johnny Terry
  bass vocals [18]
• Karen Carpenter
  drums (drum set) [2], lead vocals [2]
• Larry Levine
  engineer [13, 25]
• Lee Herschberg
  additional [4]
• Margaret Gwynne
  assistant [4]
• Mark Linett
  additional [4]
• Marty Walsh
  guitar [5]
• Matthias Bauss
  compiler
• Michael Omartian
  arranger [4], conductor [4], producer [4], strings [4]
• Mick Guzauski
  engineer [5]
• Mitch Miller
  producer [11]
• Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra
  performer [1], performing orchestra [1]
• Nat King Cole
  piano [28]
• Neil Diamond
  producer [5]
• Neil Stubenhaus
  bass [5]
• Norris "Bunny" Shawker
  drums (drum set) [28]
• Paulinho da Costa
  percussion [5]
• Perry Como
  performer [1], vocal [1]
• Phil Ramone
  producer [26]
• Ray Ellis
  arranger [9], conductor [9]
• Ray Gerhardt
  engineer [2]
• Richard Carpenter
  Wurlitzer electric piano [2], arranger [2], lead vocals [2], orchestrator [2]
• Richard Mullen
  additional [4]
• Rob Meurer
  arranger [4]
• Roger Hawkins
  drums (drum set) [3]
• Rudy Lewis
  lead vocals [3.13, 2.9], tenor vocals [18]
• Stevie Wonder
  guest [1], lead vocals [1]
• Stuart Gitlin
  assistant [4]
• The Ray Charles Singers
  vocal [1]
• The Sweet Inspirations
  background vocals [3]
• Tom Dowd
  arranger [3], recording [3]
• Tommy Cogbill
  guitar [3]
• Tommy Evans
  bass vocals [13]
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Issues

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  Magic Moments: The Definitive Burt Bacharach Collection

  3x CD
  10 November 2008
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  Magic Moments: The Definitive Burt Bacharach Collection

  3x CD
  2008