Burt Bacharach Time

[MrScorpio]

Don't make me over feat: Dionne Warwick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMpG_cn-DRI

[KatyaR]

1. Ah, man, that's SOOOOOO sweet.

I love those songs--there's something about the sound that sends chills down my spine every time. Those Bacharach songs are just amazing, even now.

I actually prefer listening to 60s music in mono and on AM radio--the sound takes me right back to my childhood, when I used to play on my swings and sing with the radio, or when I would stand in front of my grandmother's mirror and sing with the radio, using a hairbrush as a microphone.

Thanks so this--I think I'll listen to some music tonite . . . .

[pokerfan]

2. "Wishin' and Hopin'"

"Wishin' and Hopin'" is a song by Hal David and Burt Bacharach. It was first recorded by Dionne Warwick in 1963 and released on her debut album, Presenting Dionne Warwick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPQSPmtKsC8

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. This song was part of the soundtrack of my first year in college:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOcbQf1FrBU&mode=related&search=

Note the comment by one viewer:

?I love the maturity of this song. To think this used to be considered pop music, albeit "adult contemporary." I appreciated this recording as a kid and still do."

I think Top 40 radio was more eclectic in my day. Sure, you had junk like "Cinnamon, Let Me In," but it was on the same charts as this ballad, along with Janis Joplin's "Piece of My Heart," Aretha Franklin's "I Say A Little Prayer for You," the Beatles' "Hey Jude," Jimi Hendrix's cover of "All Along the Watchtower," Mary Hopkin's "Those Were the Days," Otis Redding's "Little Green Apples," and Mason Williams' "Classical Gas."

Yes, these were all on the charts at the same time (fall of 1968).