You can take a song and do it all kinds of different ways, in all kinds of different styles — but you can only do that if the song is great. And with Burt Bacharach, the songs were always great, Diane_Warren writes about the proflific songwriter.
. It was just natural, meant to be. He took something sophisticated and made it so simple that anybody could sing along to it. That’s not easy.
The chord changes, where he went melodically, it was never where you expected it to go but always where you wanted it go. And when it did, it was like,Another favorite of mine is “” That song really influenced me because I’ve written a lot of songs about that thing where you don’t want to show your feelings. Is it happy? Is it sad? “Walk on By” is the perfect version of that. And, I mean, Dionne Warwick’s vocal — just brilliant. Or Dusty Springfield on “And they created careers. Look at Dionne.
These are the songs I grew up with. I grew up in L.A., in the Valley, when Top 40 radio really was Top 40. They played everything, and so many of these songs were big hits. I constantly heard them on the radio. But also: Remember that movie “The Blob”? I just found out a few years ago that Burt Bacharach wrote
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