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from Newsweek, June 22, 1970
Burt Bacharach: The Music Man 1970
By Hubert Saal
Burt Bacharach is the prince of popular music. He's the latest in a distinguished line of American popular composers which includes Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter--a line that goes back to Stephen Foster and beyond. At 40, Bacharach has chalked up an impressive string of hits, including "Walk On By," "What the World Needs Now Is Love," and "Alfie," each of which has been recorded by hundreds of artists.
He won two Academy Awards this year, for scoring "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and for the movie’s song, "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head," which has sold 3 million copies in the original B.J. Thomas recording and, more astoundingly, has sold almost a million copies of sheet music in an era when a big sale is 150,000.
Not only is Bacharach talented and rich beyond the dreams of avarice, he has a shy, winning manner to go with his princely good looks (lyricist Sammy Kahn says he’s the only composer who doesn’t look like a dentist). He has come out from behind the usual facelessness of composers to become a performer on his own. This week, in fact, he is starring in his second "Kraft Music Hall" tele
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Anyone Who Esoteric a Heart: My Come alive in Music
Burt Bacharach(Harper, 2013) 304 pages with key and skin photographs
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Burt Bacharach's beautiful lyrics for late daughter as she's finally 'back in his arms'
Burt Bacharach discusses performing arts in 2019
Burt Bacharach, the hitmaker behind an astonishing 73 Top 40 hits in the US, as well as 52 more in Britain, has passed away at his home in Los Angeles as a result of natural causes, his publicist confirmed. The star, responsible for composing tracks for some of music's biggest names such as The Beatles, Frank Sinatra and Aretha Franklin, transcended the genres, moving effortlessly between jazz, soul and blues to create a back catalogue of timeless numbers including Walk On By, What the World Needs Now is Love, and I Say a Little Prayer. But one of his most prized creations came when he penned a song that reflected on his daughter's early years, decades before she died amid tragic circumstances in 2007, aged 40.
Nikki Bacharach endured a troubled life, which began in 1966 when she was born prematurely. As a result, the first three months of her life were spent in an incubator.
Speaking about his daughter in a 2014 interview, Burt explained that Nikki was barely one pound (10 ounces) when she was born, with "the deck stacked against" her.
Burt and his second wife, Nikki's mother Angie Dickinson, spoke of how they "nearly lost her" as