Bacharach forged a new sonic landscape that felt sophisticated but not alienating.
When the news of Burt Bacharach’s death broke on Thursday, I briefly wondered if I possessed a sixth sense. That morning, apropos of nothing but the vaguely sad Thursday feeling of wishing it were Friday, I’d had the urge to hear “In Between the Heartaches,” the ballad that opened Dionne Warwick’s 1965 album. It’s a plaintive one, about a love that only seems to justify itself when no one else is looking .
Not two hours later, upon learning that Bacharach had died in Los Angeles at the grand, old age of 94, I was audibly shocked, improbably disturbed. I wanted,, to be comforted. So, I did what anybody in my position would do: I pulled up my “Best of Burt” playlist. I’d compiled many of its songs—which I mostly came to know in childhood, through my parents—in late February 2020, and then the next big batch in the thick of lockdown, which makes perfect sense in hindsight. Burt Bacharach’s music was, is, pure comfort food, the very definition of easy listening.
Together with David and Warwick, his greatest collaborators, Bacharach forged a new sonic landscape for the 1960s; one that felt sophisticated but not alienating, accessible but not stupid. Bacharach was an enormously gifted composer, and part of his gift was creating songs that went down easy, whether they were powerfully downbeat or about …raindrops falling on your head?
Embedded in his legacy are lots and lots of gorgeous interpretations of his work. There are the obvious ones—Aretha Franklin’s “I Say a Little Prayer,” The Carpenters’ “ Close to You,” Warwick’s…well, everything—but there are others, too. Herewith, just a few of the most memorable, and moving.bit stupid. It also owes almost everything to Michael Bennett’s choreography, and the irrepressible Donna McKechnieMichael Bennett’s choreography.
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