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Feb 11, 2023 - 8:48am
Easy to dismiss Bacharach and David as "just pop" but in no way were they JUST anything in terms of songwriting. Words and music, complexities and rhythms that always made me go, "How the hell did they think of that?"
and one more, since I love Burt so damn much.
I played this today in the car and just about wept at the perfection of how Tashian worked in melancholy and love and a little hope - with Burt's fantastic composition of melody and chords. It's things like this that made me stop thinking I had any business trying to make music, when other people can do it so much better...
About five or so years ago I saw him in SF, sitting in the front row right there staring at Burt Freakin Bacharach.
Near the end he announced it was time for everyone to sing along (Raindrops) then leaned off mic and, to himself, went âpromises promisesâ¦â and chuckled.
When he was done a few people jumped up to shake his hand, and he was just a few feet away, and my Better Half⢠looked puzzled at me and asked if I were going to get up. âNo. I donât deserve it.â
Two things of his that are slightly off the beaten path to share with you. One, his song for his autistic daughter Nikki. Click on this and be surprised. Those of us a Certain Age have it seared into our brains.
The other, one of the greatest existential pop songs (via Hal David).
Barrett Strong's "War" will always be connected to my listening to it and discussing it with my eldest sister when I was a little girl. https://apnews.com/article/bar...
"Money" will always be on my lists of greatest songs, then there is all the other ones he co-wrote:
NEW YORK (AP) â Barrett Strong, one of Motownâs founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the companyâs breakthrough single âMoney (Thatâs What I Want)â and later collaborated with Norman Whitfield on such classics as âI Heard It Through the Grapevine,â âWarâ and âPapa Was a Rollinâ Stone,â has died. He was 81.
Barrett Strong's "War" will always be connected to my listening to it and discussing it with my eldest sister when I was a little girl. https://apnews.com/article/bar...
"Money" will always be on my lists of greatest songs, then there is all the other ones he co-wrote:
NEW YORK (AP) â Barrett Strong, one of Motownâs founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the companyâs breakthrough single âMoney (Thatâs What I Want)â and later collaborated with Norman Whitfield on such classics as âI Heard It Through the Grapevine,â âWarâ and âPapa Was a Rollinâ Stone,â has died. He was 81.
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Jan 30, 2023 - 6:35am
Barrett Strong's "War" will always be connected to my listening to it and discussing it with my eldest sister when I was a little girl. https://apnews.com/article/bar...