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'Oh behave!' Burt Bacharach could have been the blueprint for Mike Myers' Austin Powers film character as, through his music, he came to symbolise the sophisticated '60s - cocktails, breezy jazz-pop and adult relationships. Together with lyricist Hal David, Burt Bacharach made the 60s sound ultra-sophisticated. A world away from flower power, acid rock and the Mop Tops, Bacharach's soaring melodies established him as a modern day Gershwin as he wrote a remarkable 52 Top 40 hits
Burt Bacharach singles (Written and produced)
Baby, It's You (The Shirelles) (1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Gene Pitney) (April 1962)
Don't Make Me Over (Dionne Warwick) (Jan 1962)
Make it Easy On Yourself (Jerry Butler) (Jun 1962)
Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa (Gene Pitney) (Dec 1963)
Blue on Blue (Bobby Vinton) (May 1963)
Anyone Who Had a Heart (Dionne Warwick) (Nov 1963)
Wives and Lovers (Jack Jones) (Sep 1963)
Walk On By (Dionne Warwick) (Apr 1964)
Wishin' and Hopin' (Dusty Springfield) (May 1964)
(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me (Sandie Shaw) (Oct 1964)
A House Is Not A Home (Brook Benton) (1963)
What the World Needs Now Is Love (Jackie DeShannon) (1965)
Trains And boats And Planes (Burt Bacharach) (May 1965)
What's New Pussycat? (Tom Jones) (June 1965)
Alfie (Cilla Black) (Apr 1966)
My Little Red Book (Love) (Feb 1966)
This Guy's in Love With You (Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass) (Jul 1967)
I Say a Little Prayer For You (Dionne Warwick) (1967) then Aretha Franklin
(Aug 1968)
The Look of Love (Dusty Springfield) (Mar 1967)
Do You Know the Way to San Jose? (Dionne Warwick) (Jun 1968)
Promises, Promises (Jill O'Hara) (1968)
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head (B.J. Thomas) (Jun 1969)
I'll Never Fall in Love Again (Dionne Warwick) (Mar 1969)
Close to You (The Carpenters) (Sep 1970)
One Less Bell to Answer (The 5th Dimension) (Feb 1970)
Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do) (Christopher Cross) (Oct 1981)
That's What Friends Are For Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight
(Nov 1985)
On My Own (Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald) (May 1986)
Toledo (Burt Bacharach) (May 1999)
Burt Bacharach albums
Hitmaker! Burt Bacharach Plays His Hits (May 1965)
What's New Pussycat Soundtrack (Jun 1965)
After The Fox Soundtrack (Nov 1966)
Reach Out (Nov 1967)
Casino Royale Soundtrack (1967)
Make it Easy on Yourself (1969)
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid Soundtrack (Oct 1969)
Promises, Promises Soundtrack (Jun 1969)
Burt Bacharach (1971)
Living Together (1974)
Futures (1977)
Woman (1979)
One Amazing Night (1998)
Painted From Memory with Elvis Costello (Oct 1998)
Isley Meets Bacharach: Here I Am With Ronald Isley (Jun 2003)