Bacharach wrote incredible melodies. One of the best songwriters ever.
Another of Burt’s many, many hits was “You’ll Never Get To Heaven If You Break My Heart”. Today, his manager might say
“Can you take the word “Heaven” out of it, Burt?”
He probably would have refused.
There was room for both rough and beautiful songs back then.
I’m thinking of David Gates and Bread; “I’d like to make it with you”. So gentle, and melodic. There is probably a good market for that today, but most music producers don’t want to risk losing a few hundred thousand in the investment. Plus, unless the group is ready to tour, it’s hard to make money from songs alone. The songs might be gobbled up and dispersed for free via sites like Spotify.