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Dusty Springfield’s The Look of Love may be my favorite thing ever, musical or otherwise. It is infuriating that it is in a once favorite movie that I will never watch again 
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Courtesy of Jonny Trunk’s weekly email here are some more - the third one is … well, just listen.
Here he is with Andy Williams.
Here is Ursula and Sellers with Burt and Dusty
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I always like Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass This Guy’s In Love With You.
This is also a favorite.
And many songs he wrote that many others made famous.
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Tears of laughter at what happened after 7 plays. 
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That song is probably as good a point as any to point out that his success was rather inseparable from Hal David who wrote the lyrics for most of these songs being posted.
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Absolutely! Here is another favorite cover, from the album that Marc did after doing a series of shows with Burt in…2015? (The album is 2017, not sure when the concert series was, but 2015 sounds right. God I wanted to go…)
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This was the first song to be recorded by the Manics after Richey Edwards disappearance, effectively announcing that the band would be continuing.
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I wasn’t quite sure how to explain why I thought his songs were so successful, but an LA Times article by Diane Warren sums it up nicely and puts it succinctly:
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I knew Heartlight had Burt’s music but here are a couple Neil songs that I know but did not know Burt co wrote.
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Elvis did a little tribute the other night.
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There’s a local radio program on Sunday afternoons, “American Songbook,” that I am guessing will mostly or completely consist of Burt’s songs when it airs tomorrow (2-4 pm, US Eastern time; streams online). If’n you’re interested…
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Walk on By is still my favorite Bacharach/David song. Years ago, my parents pressured me into hanging with them during their Las Vegas Xmas (!!!) vacation… for Pete’s sake. But later I couldn’t have been happier; we attended a show headlined by Dionne Warwick who sang all of her B/D tunes and more. Happiiinnessssss! Great songs sung by B/D’s favorite singer and “best interpreter”.
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listening to Anyone Who Had a Heart was triggering a memory I couldn’t place until now. not sure there are any hip hop fans in a Bacharach thread but imo this is a good example of sampling, using certain elements and in not-necessarily obvious ways, but without being intentionally obscure, either. and the MCs, Mos Def and Talib Kweli, are excellent
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Ah! Now I hear it
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there’s Warwick’s “know that I love you” vocal but also the two-note string section thing and I think all the piano notes are chopped out of AWHAH, too
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Wow, this one did not age so well… I assume she chose it (at least in part) for the irony. (Anyway, until now I didn’t know there’s a video for this)
ETA: It’s still a Bacharach melody, & it’s Cécile’s voice.
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