Let The Music Play: Black America Sings Bacharach Let The Music Play: Black America Sings Bacharach CD

2014 collection. The Black America Sings brand of Ace's acclaimed Songwriter Series continues with a volume that salutes the songwriting genius of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. The most prolific performer of Bacharach/David songs is Dionne Warwick and it's no surprise that so many other black American artists should also have dipped into their catalog down the years. LET THE MUSIC PLAY offers an engrossing cross-section of these, ranging from the Drifters, Jerry Butler and Dionne herself to '70's Soul superstars such as Bobby Womack, Gloria Gaynor and Isaac Hayes. The tracks featured provide a remarkable tribute to two men who, for more than a decade, wrote classic after classic.

1. Make It Easy on Yourself - Dionne Warwick 2. My Little Red Book - Burt Bacharach Orchestra Featuring Tony Middleton 3. Long After Tonight Is All Over - Irma Thomas 4. Another Tear Falls - Marv Johnson 5. I Say a Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin 6. Message to Martha - Jerry Butler 7. This Empty Place - Cissy Houston 8. In the Land of Make Believe - the Drifters 9. I Cry Alone - Ruby ; the Romantics 10. Let the Music Play - Roy Hamilton 11. (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me - Patti la Belle and Her Blue Belles 12. The Last One to Be Loved - Lou Johnson 13. Reach Out for Me - Willie Tee 14. Alfie - the Delfonics 15. (There Goes) the Forgotten Man - Gene McDaniels 16. The Look of Love - Nina Simone 17. Anyone Who Had a Heart - the Orlons 18. What the World Needs Now Is Love - James Carr 19. Walk on By (Single Version) - Gloria Gaynor 20. (They Long to Be) Close to You (Edited Version) - Bobby Womack 21. One Less Bell to Answer - Gladys Knight ; the Pips 22. I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself - Isaac Hayes 23. Don't Make Me Over - Brenda ; the Tabulations 24. A House Is Not a Home - Mavis Staples