Bacharach,Burt Dream Big: The First Decade Of Song CD

Four CD collection following the songwriting beginnings of Burt Bacharach. Featuring vintage Bacharach interpreted by Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Tony Bennett, Frankie Avalon, Gene Pitney, Andy Williams and many more. Including a CD of Bacharach's Influences and Inspirations. Burt Bacharach revolutionised popular songwriting, employing a previously unimagined technical sophistication that would find full expression in the 1960s, when with an astonishing run of memorable hits, he and his lyricist partner Hal David ruled the pop charts. Inspired by his love of the French Impressionist composers, Brazilian folk music, Bebop and modernist jazz, Bacharach won the respect of everyone from Brian Wilson to Bill Evans, to Frank Zappa, but his early years had been ones of struggle and frustrating compromise. This collection reveals an eclectic apprenticeship (a dizzying world of Frankie Avalon- esque US teen idols, male and female soul singers, doo-wop and close harmony groups, B movie theme tunes, torch singers, crooners and novelty records) that culminated in the landmark first hits; 'Magic Moments', 'The Story of My Life', 'Make It Easy on Yourself', 'Baby It's You', 'I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself' and (with the emergence of Bacharach & David's greatest interpreter Dionne Warwick) 'Don't Make Me Over'.

1. Nat King Cole - Once in a Blue Moon 2. Patti Page - Keep Me in Mind 3. Mel Torme - These Desperate Hours 4. Sherry Parsons - Peggy's in the Pantry 5. The Gallahads - the Morning Mail 6. Alan Dale - I Cry More 7. June Valli - Beauty Isn't Everything 8. Della Reese - How About? 9. Johnny Mathis - Warm and Tender 10. Jo Stafford - Underneath the Overpass 11. Marty Robbins - the Story of My Life 12. Michael Holliday - the Story of My Life 13. Jerry Lewis - Sad Sack 14. Gale Storm - Winter Warm 15. Peggy Lee - Uninvited Dream 16. Bob Manning - Love Bank 17. Perry Como - Magic Moments 18. The Four Preps - Humble Pie 19. Bernie Nee - Country Music Holiday 20. Patti Page - Another Time, Another Place 21. Margaret Whiting - Hot Spell 22. Mary Mayo - It Seemed So Right Last Night 23. Marty Robbins - Sitting in a Tree House 24. Tony Bennett - the Night That Heaven Fell 25. The Five Blobs - the Blob 26. The Four Coins - Wendy Wendy 27. Marty Robbins - the Last Time I Saw My Heart 28. Sonny James - Dream Big 29. Steve Lawrence - Loving Is a Way of Giving 30. Jack Jones - Make Room for the Joy 31. Four Aces - Paradise Island 32. Burt Bacharach - Searching Wind 33. Burt Bacharach - Rosanne 34. Gloria Lambert - Moon Man 35. John Ashley - the Hangman 36. Jane Morgan - with Open Arms 37. Johnny Mathis - Heavenly 38. The Eligibles - Faker Faker 39. Gene McDaniels - in Times Like These 40. Johnny Mathis - Faithfully 41. Larry Hall - a Girl Like You 42. Rosemary June - Your Lips Are Warmer Than Your Heart 43. Paul Hampton - Two Hour Honeymoon 44. Paul Hampton - Creams 45. The Avons - You're Only Young Once (Yeh Yeh Yeh) 46. Keely Smith - Close 47. Charlie Gracie - I Looked for You 48. Diana Trask - Long Ago Last Summer 49. Everit Herter - Boys Were Made for Girls 50. Rusty Draper - Ten Thousand Years Ago 51. The Wanderers - I Could Make You Mine 52. Buddy Clinton - Joanie's Forever 53. Dick Van Dyke - Three Wheels on My Wagon 54. Frankie Avalon - Gotta Get a Girl 55. Connie Stevens - and This Is Mine 56. The Turbans - Three Friends (Two Lovers) 57. The Rangoons - Moon Guitar 58. The Drifters - (Don't Go) Please Stay 59. Tommy Sands - Love in a Goldfish Bowl 60. Chuck Jackson - I Wake Up Crying 61. Del Shannon - the Answer to Everything 62. The Shepherd Sisters - Deeply 63. Gloria Lynne - You Don't Have to Be a Tower of Strength 64. The Four Coins - the Miracle of St. Marie 65. The Shirelles - Baby It's You 66. Jerry Butler - Make It Easy on Yourself 67. Sophia Loren - Donne Moi Ma Chance 68. Jack Jones - Dreamin' All the Time 69. Jack Jones - Pick Up the Pieces 70. The Four Coins - 71. The Windows of Heaven 72. Gene McDaniels - Another Tear Falls 73. The Drifters - Mexican Divorce 74. Etta James - Waiting for Charlie to Come Home 75. Jane Morgan - Forever My Love 76. Gene Pitney - (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance 77. The Fairmount Singers - (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance 78. The Exotics - Manpower 79. Chuck Jackson - Any Day Now (My Wild and Beautiful Bird) 80. Babs Tino - Forgive Me (For Giving You Such a Bad Time) 81. Timi Yuro - the Love of a Boy 82. Andy Williams - Don't You Believe It 83. Gene Pitney - Only Love Can Break a Heart 84. Gene Pitney - Little Betty Falling Star 85. Tommy Hunt - I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself 86. Tommy Hunt - Don't Make Me Over 87. The Shirelles - It's Love That Really Counts (In the Long Run) 88. Jimmy Radcliffe-(There Goes)The Forgotten Man 89. Helen Shapiro - Keep Away from Other Girls 90. Dionne Warwick - Don't Make Me Over 91. Dionne Warwick - I Smiled Yesterday 92. Joey Powers - Don't Envy Me 93. Bobby Vee - Anonymous Phone Call 94. Paul Evans - the Bell That Couldn't Jingle 95. Marlene Dietrich - Kleine Treue Nachtigall (Small True Nightingale) 96. Marlene Dietrich - Sag Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind (Where Have All the Flowers Gone) 97. Mel Torme - the Christmas Song 98. Claude Debussy - Reflets Dans L'eau from Images Pour Piano Book 1 - Marcelle Meyer (Piano) 99. Maurice Ravel - Daphnis ; Chloe - No2 100. Lever Du Jour 101. Pantomime 102. Danse G?n?rale - Detroit Symphony Orchestra / Paul Paray 103. Darius Milhaud - from Saudades Do Brasil 104. Overture 105. Soracaba 106. Botafogo 107. Corcovado - Concert Arts Orchestra / Darius Milhaud 108. Bohuslav Martinu - Parable of a Sculpture. Andante Pastorale from the Parables - Czech Philharmonic / Karel Ancerl 109. Henry Cowell - Intro to the Tides of Manaunaun 110. Henry Cowell - Tides of Manaunaun 111. Arnold Schoenberg - Mondestrunken (Moonstruck) from Pierrot Lunaire - Jeanne H?ricard (Soprano) / Hans Rosbaud 112. Alban Berg - Allegro Misterioso from Lyric Suite Juilliard String Quartet 113. Anton Webern - Langsam, Marcia Funebre (Funeral March) from 6 Pieces for Orchestra, Op 6 114. SWR Baden-Baden / Hans Rosbaud 115. Leonard Bernstein - Masque from the Age of Anxiety - Lukas Foss (Piano) New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein 116. Gil Evans Orchestra - la Nevada 117. Tadd Dameron - Fontainebleau 118. Charlie Parker ; Dizzy Gillespie - An Oscar for Treadwell 119. Count Basie - April in Paris 120. Agostinho Dos Santos and Roberto Menescal - a Felicidade (From Black Orpheus)