Burt Bacharach – Essential Recordings 1955-62 3CD

Burt Bacharach – Essential Recordings 1955-62

A multi-faceted composer, the great Burt Bacharach (born in 1928, he is 88 at this writing) has enjoyed major hits in numerous musical styles, including Top-40, pop, soul, R&B, jazz, bossa-nova, country, and movie soundtracks. He has also collaborated with a host of major lyricists, including Hal David and Bob Hilliard. Bacharach was named the “greatest living composer” by the Grammy panel that gave him a lifetime achievement award in 2008.

This superb 60-track, 3-CD set contains Bacharach’s most essential and enduring works from the beginning of his career, gathering the great sides he composed between 1955 and 1962. Included here are classics like Dionne Warwick’s “Don’t Make Me Over,” Gene Pitney’s “Only Love Can Break a Heart,” Tommy Hunt’s “I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself,” and The Shirelles’ “Baby It’s You,” to name just a few.

Tracklist:
CD1:
1. Dionne Warwick - Don't Make Me Over
2. Chuck Jackson - the Breaking Point
3. Gene McDaniels - Tower of Strength
4. Helen Shapiro - Keep Away From Other Girls
5. Babs Tino - Forgive Me (For Giving You Such a Bad Time)
6. Tommy Hunt - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Mysel
7. Gene Pitney - Only Love Can Break a Heart
8. Michael Holliday - the Story of My Life
9. Sonny James - Dream Big
10. Gene Vincent - Crazy Times
11. Don Gibson - Sea of Heartbreak
12. The Five Blobs - the Blob
13. Del Shannon - the Answer To Everything
14. The Turbans - Three Friends (Two Lovers)
15. The Shirelles - Baby It's You
16. The Drifters - Mexican Divorce
17. Marty Robbins - Sittin' In a Tree House
18. Charlie Gracie - I Looked For You
19. Dionne Warwick - Wishing and Hoping
20. Perry Como - Magic Moments

CD2:
1. Johnny Mathis - Warm and Tender
2. Jimmy Radcliffe - Long After Tonight is All Over
3. Bobby Vee - Anonymous Phone Call
4. The Avons - We're Only Young Once (Yeh, Yeh, Yeh)
5. The Four Coins - the Miracle of St. Marie
6. Steve Lawrence - Loving is a Way of Living
7. Etta James - Waitin' For Charlie (To Come Home)
8. Tommy Sands - Love In a Goldfish Bowl
9. Margaret Whiting - Hot Spell
10. Timi Yuro - the Love of a Boy
11. Jerry Butler - Make It Easy On Yourself
12. Vi Velasco - That's Not the Answer
13. The Russells - Wastin' Away For You
14. Gloria Lynne - (You Don't Have To Be) a Tower of Strength
15. Chuck Jackson - Any Day Now (My Wild, Beautiful Bird)
16. Carl Dobkins, Jr. - My Heart is an Open Book
17. Sophia Loren - Donne-Moi-Ma Chance (Too Late To Worry)
18. Dionne Warwick - This Empty Place
19. The Drifters- Loneliness or Happiness
20. Cliff Richard - (It's) Wonderful To Be Young

CD3:
1. Jane Morgan - With Open Arms
2. Dee Clark - You're Telling Our Secrets
3. Marlene Dietrich - Sag Mir Wo De Blumen Sind
4. Joey Powers - Don't Envy Me
5. Dick Van Dyke - Three Wheels On My Wagon
6. Merv Griffin - Along Came Joe
7. Jack Jones - Dreamin' All the Time
8. Joanie Sommers - Johnny Get Angry
9. The Four Aces - Paradise Island
10. Gloria Lambert - Moon Man
11. Mel Torme - These Desperate Hours
12. The Eligibles - Faker, Faker
13. Jimmy Radcliffe - (There Goes) the Forgotten Man
14. The Shepherd Sisters - Deeply
15. The Exotics - Manpower
16. Buddy Clinton - Take Me To Your Ladder (I'll See Your Leader
17. Cathy Carr - Wild Honey
18. Burt Bacharach (Piano) - Rosanne
19. George Hamilton - Errand of Mercy
20. Dionne Warwick - I Smiled Yesterday

Label: Valentine Records
Released: 2017