![]() We're all aware of the best known versions of the above mentioned songs, so here's a recording of one of them I've only just discovered. While I think that most of us would agree that there are many top quality songs on that list, including around a dozen I'd cite as personal favourites, they just didn't have the same mass appeal of Bacharach and David's classic 60s hits. The prevailing attitude towards Bacharach in the mid-70s as I recall it was that while he was undoubtably a great composer who'd penned many a classic, his time had gone.Ĭarrying on the theme of songs written by Bacharach and David in the three years between Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head in November '69 and Lost Horizon in December '72, according to Serene Dominic's book Song By Song twenty-two new titles were released on record during that time, and in chronological order they were Let Me Go To Him, Loneliness Remembers, Everybody's Out Of Town, Where There's A Heartache, Paper Mache, The Wine Is Young, Send My Picture To Scranton PA, The Green Grass Starts To Grow, Check Out Time, Walk The Way You Talk, How Does A Man Become A Puppet, All Kinds Of People, Hasbrook Heights, Ten Times Forever More, My Rock And Foundation, Who Gets The Guy?, Long Ago Tomorrow, Something Big, I Just Have To Breathe, The Balance Of Nature, If You Never Say Goodbye, Be Aware. When in around 73 or 74 I alienated some of my friends by becoming a hardcore fan and collector of Bacharach's music, I was hearing songs like 'The April Fools', 'Odds And Ends', 'Paper Mache' and 'The Green Grass Starts To Grow' for the first time. No, I don't recall hearing 'Who Gets The Guy' on British radio in 1971 and in fact I don't remember hearing any of Dionne's singles after 'Do You Know The Way To San Jose' and before 'Then Came You'. ![]() By the early 70s radio stations were starting to play more and more rock music, just when Bacharach's output was noticeably starting to soften and while something with the opulent production values of The Carpenters' 'Close To You' would be expected to be heard coming from car radios in the summer of 1970, something as soft and subtle as Dionne Warwick's 'Paper Mache' wouldn't. ![]()
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