Composer Burt Bacharach, whose hits such as 'Do You Know the Way to San Jose' and 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' provided a mellow alternative soundtrack to rock and roll in the 1960s and 1970s, has died at the age of 94
"Do You Know the Way to San Jose" and"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" provided a mellow alternative soundtrack to rock and roll in the 1960s and 1970s, has died at the age of 94, his publicist told Reuters on Thursday.
Bacharach wrote more than 500 songs, many featuring a tinkling piano and subtly seductive horn hooks. He penned hits for singers ranging from Dionne Warwick to the Carpenters. More than 1,200 artists performed his songs, which won six Grammys and three Oscars. Bacharach and David had 30 Top-40 hits in the '60s alone.
Bacharach's"Alfie" for the Michael Caine movie of the same name was a hit for Cilla Black and Tom Jones sang his title tune for Woody Allen's"What's New Pussycat?" Other movie music from Bacharach included"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" from"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," for which Bacharach and David won two Academy Awards and a Grammy for best score.
"I'm very grateful to be in my house in L.A. when this lockdown happened," Bachrach said in an interview after the concert shown on YouTube."We were supposed to be on tour when the pandemic hit."Asked what it was like to work with a lyricist 60 years his junior, he said age"only has a part if you've lost your edge, your sharpness or your writing. ... you are supposed to grow and supposed to get better as time goes on.
Later, he worked clubs in New York and became pianist-arranger for singers such as Marlene Dietrich, Vic Damone, the Ames Brothers, Polly Bergen and Paula Stewart, who became his first wife. Eventually he decided he could write better tunes than the ones being pitched to the singers he worked for.
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