The way that some people remember seeing the Beatles on “Ed Sullivan,” I remember the first time I heard a Burt Bacharach song. I was eight years old and I watched Jackie DeShannon perf…
The way that some people remember seeing the Beatles on “Ed Sullivan,” I remember the first time I heard asong. I was eight years old and I watched Jackie DeShannon perform “What the World Needs Now Is Love” on our black-and-white TV set. I had never been spellbound like that. Right off, something in the lyrics got to me.
The music of Burt Bacharach was like that. It beckoned, it soared, it lifted you up, yet it was rooted in a place of exquisite and gorgeous melancholy. Just listen to “Anyone Who Had a Heart,” the 1962 song that was’s first Top 10 hit. It’s a song of absolute devotion rooted in absolute despair, sung by a woman whose love is so total that the man who won’t return it — who keeps betraying her — must not even have a heart.
But then I put Bacharach away and came around to him, with a different spirit, when I was in college in the late ’70s. In the house I shared with half a dozen friends, I was ritually chided for my fixation on Bacharach. But it had become a private obsession.
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