Word: bacharach
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...When I went back there for Christmas last year I noticed that everyone was listening to the Carpenters and Burt Bacharach too," he says, sitting in his loft-like showroom in Manhattan's trendy meat-packing district. Despite his fondness for Western things like '70s light music, Panichgul says his love of fashion, as well as his reserved, almost conservative sensibility, reflects his Eastern origins. "There is definitely an Asian influence in me; I just don't know where it's coming from...
...hard not to hear Monday’s concert as a continuous flow of shifting dynamics, riding fluidly from Bacharach piano chords to euphorically stumbling keyboards to tense atmospherics to rock rampage...
...Another, she even tries vamping. After a few tracks, you realize she's not covering these singers but coveting their personas. A dozen songs later, it's still hard to say exactly what Moore sounds like. Ronald Isley's standards album - Here I Am: Isley Meets Bacharach - succeeds for the very reason Stewart's and Moore's fail. Rather than fit his classic R.-and-B. voice into the dull formalism of Burt Bacharach's songs, Isley spirits away the songwriter's greatest hits to slow-jam land. On Close to You, he plays endlessly with single words like...
...still here on Thanksgiving Day, the Brattle will be screening this 1971 children’s classic and cautionary tale. You know the drill: Five greedy kids win a tour of a candy factory, where they are punished for their cravings in visually imaginative ways. Add in some Burt Bacharach songs, some garish ’70s set design, and Gene Wilder’s repressed, vaguely psychotic turn in the title role, and you’ve got a couple hours of kitschy fun to take in after you’re demolished your pumpkin...
...were once married to Burt Bacharach. Did you compose as you buttered your toast in the morning...