The Definitive Burt Bacharach Songbook

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  The Look of Love

  Dusty Springfield
  3:33
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Walk On By

  Gabrielle
  3:12
  2.0 ★
• 3
  Magic Moments

  Perry Como
  2:42
  3.1 ★
• 4
  (There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me

  Sandie Shaw
  2:44
• 5
  Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head

  B.J. Thomas
  3:00
  4.0 ★
• 6
  I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself

  Dusty Springfield
  3:03
  3.5 ★
• 7
  Do You Know the Way to San Jose?

  Dionne Warwick
  2:56
• 8
  Baby It’s You

  The Shirelles
  2:40
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Please Stay

  The Drifters
  2:18
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Don’t Make Me Over

  Dionne Warwick
  3:26
• 11
  Tower of Strength

  Gene McDaniels
  2:23
• 12
  (There Goes) The Forgotten Man

  Jimmy Radcliffe
  2:49
• 13
  (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance

  Gene Pitney
  3:01
• 14
  Mexican Divorce

  The Drifters
  2:35
• 15
  The Story of My Life

  Marty Robbins
  2:33
• 16
  Nikki
  2:24
• 17
  Promises, Promises
  2:50
• 18
  Blue on Blue

  Bobby Vinton
  2:30
• 19
  The Empty Place

  The Searchers
  2:09
• 20
  Odds and Ends

  Dionne Warwick
  3:26
• 21
  A House Is Not a Home

  Brook Benton
  3:02
• 22
  One Less Bell to Answer
  2:57
• 23
  You’ll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)

  The Stylistics
  3:38
• 24
  Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)

  Chuck Jackson
  3:23
• 25
  Only Love Can Break a Heart

  Gene Pitney
  2:52
• CD 2
• 1
  Close to You

  Dusty Springfield
  2:26
• 2
  I Say a Little Prayer

  Aretha Franklin
  3:30
  4.4 ★
• 3
  What the World Needs Now Is Love

  Jackie DeShannon
  3:04
  3.6 ★
• 4
  Make It Easy on Yourself

  The Walker Brothers
  3:11
  5.0 ★
• 5
  What’s New Pussycat?

  Tom Jones
  2:18
  3.5 ★
• 6
  I’ll Never Fall in Love Again

  Dionne Warwick
  2:58
• 7
  Wishin’ and Hopin’

  Dusty Springfield
  2:53
  4.5 ★
• 8
  Don't Go Breaking My Heart
  2:27
• 9
  Reach Out For Me

  Nancy Wilson
  2:27
• 10
  Wives and Lovers

  Jack Jones
  2:30
  5.0 ★
• 11
  Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa

  Gene Pitney
  2:57
  2.5 ★
• 12
  Trains and Boats and Planes
  2:43
• 13
  Anyone Who Had a Heart

  Cilla Black
  2:52
• 14
  Made in Paris

  Trini Lopez
  2:21
• 15
  I Wake Up Crying

  Chuck Jackson
  2:15
• 16
  This (Girl’s) in Love With You

  Dusty Springfield
  3:37
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Living Together, Growing Together

  The 5th Dimension
  3:50
• 18
  Be True to Yourself

  Bobby Vee
  2:03
• 19
  Alfie

  Cilla Black
  2:37
• 20
  Let the Music Play

  The Drifters
  2:36
• 21
  It’s Love That Really Counts (In the Long Run)

  The Shirelles
  2:15
• 22
  Arthur’s Theme (The Best That You Can Do)

  Christopher Cross
  3:52
  5.0 ★
• 23
  The Windows of the World

  The Pretenders
  2:56
• 24
  That’s What Friends Are For

  Dionne Warwick (feat. Elton John, Gladys Knight & Stevie Wonder)
  4:15
  4.0 ★
• 25
  God Give Me Strength

  Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello
  6:09
  3.0 ★

More by Burt Bacharach

At This Time

At This Time 2005

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

• Aretha Franklin
  lead vocals [2], piano [2]
• Arif Mardin
  arranger [2]
• Assa Drori
  concertmaster [22]
• B.J. Thomas
  vocal [5]
• Bill Davis
  guitar [1.9, 1.14, 2.20]
• Bob Clearmountain
  mix [23]
• Burt Bacharach
  arranger [2.24, 1.17], conductor [1.5, 1.17, 2.12], grand piano [25], producer [2.24-25, 1.17]
• Byron Stripling
  flugelhorn [25]
• Carole Bayer Sager
  arranger [24], producer [24]
• Charlie Thomas
  tenor vocals [1.9, 1.14, 2.20]
• Chet Himes
  mix [22]
• Chris Parker
  drums (drum set) [25]
• Christopher Cross
  arranger [22], lead vocals [22]
• Claus Ogerman
  arranger [14], conductor [14]
• David Carey
  vibraphone [25]
• David Spinozza
  guitar [25]
• Dee Dee Warwick
  background vocals [14], vocal [20]
• Dionne Warwick
  background vocals [14], lead vocals [24], solo [24], vocal [2.6, 2.20, 1.7, 1.10]
• Dock Green
  baritone vocals [9, 14]
• Doris Troy
  background vocals [14], vocal [20]
• Elton John
  guest [24], lead vocals [24], piano [24]
• Elvis Costello
  vocal [25]
• Gene Pearson
  baritone vocals [20]
• Gladys Knight
  additional [24], guest [24], lead vocals [24]
• Jerry Jemmott
  bass [2]
• Jerry Wexler
  producer [2]
• Joe Reisman
  arranger [3]
• John Franz
  producer [2.7, 2.16, 1.6]
• John Guess
  additional [22]
• Johnny Marr
  guitar [23]
• Lawrence Feldman
  alto flute [25]
• Lee Herschberg
  additional [22]
• Lew Soloff
  flugelhorn [25]
• Luther Dixon
  producer [8]
• Margaret Gwynne
  assistant [22]
• Mark Linett
  additional [22]
• Michael Omartian
  arranger [22], conductor [22], producer [22], strings [22]
• Mitch Miller
  producer [15]
• Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra
  performer [3], performing orchestra [3]
• Nick Lowe
  producer [23]
• Perry Como
  performer [3], vocal [3]
• Phil Ramone
  producer [17]
• Ray Ellis
  arranger [9], conductor [9]
• Richard Mullen
  additional [22]
• Rob Meurer
  arranger [22]
• Rob Mounsey
  keyboard [25]
• Roger Hawkins
  drums (drum set) [2]
• Rudy Lewis
  lead vocals [1.9, 1.14, 2.20]
• Stevie Wonder
  guest [24], lead vocals [24]
• Stuart Gitlin
  assistant [22]
• The Ray Charles Singers
  vocal [3]
• The Sweet Inspirations
  background vocals [2]
• Tom Dowd
  arranger [2], recording [2]
• Tommy Cogbill
  guitar [2]
• Tommy Evans
  bass vocals [20]
• T‐Bone Wolk
  bass [25]
• Show all credits (56)

Issues

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  The Definitive Burt Bacharach Songbook

  2x CD
  20 November 2006