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American Jewish songwriter and pianist behind ‘I say a little Prayer’ dies at 94, remembered for romantic, melancholic ballads that blurred line between jazz and pop By HUW GRIFFITH and SUSAN STUMME9 Feb 2023, 11:36 pm LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Legendary American pop composer, songwriter and pianist Burt Bacharach, whose prolific output provided a chart-topping playlist for the 1960s and 1970s with hits like “I Say a Little Prayer,” has died in Los Angeles at the age of 94. Bacharach worked with a constellation of stars during his decades-long career, from Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin to Dusty Springfield and...

Bacharach was known for songs such as 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' and 'I Say a Little Prayer'Composer Burt Bacharach has died at the age of 94. Bacharach died Wednesday at home in Los Angeles of natural causes, his publicist Tina Brausam said Thursday. The Oscar-winner was known for songs such as "Walk on By," "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" and many more. Bacharach triumphed in multiple art forms. He was an eight-time Grammy winner, a prize-winning Broadway composer for "Promises, Promises" and a three-time Oscar winner. He received two Academy Awards in 1970, for the...

The Look Of Love Is in your eyes The look your smile can't disguise The Look Of Love Is saying so much more...A couple of decades back, "The Look of Love" was indeed saying so much more: George Will cited the presence on the hit parade of Diana Krall's CD of the same name as one of the hopeful cultural trends of America post-9/11. In The Wall Street Journal, Terry Teachout agreed. He'd been sitting in a New York McDonald's whose radio had been tuned to some young persons' station - and, instead of the usual ghastly caterwauling, "The Look...

Hal David, who partnered with Burt Bacharach to write some of the best-known songs in pop music, has died. David, who won an Oscar and a Grammy for his work, died Saturday (Sept. 1) in Los Angeles, the New York Times reports. He was 91 years old. The Oscar- and Grammy-winning lyricist who in the 1960s and ’70s gave pop music vernacular the questions “What’s It All About?,” “What’s New, Pussycat?,” “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?” and “What Do You Get When You Fall in Love?,” "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head," died on Saturday in Los...

Hal David, the stylish, heartfelt lyricist who teamed with Burt Bacharach on dozens of timeless songs for movies, television and a variety of recording artists in the 1960s and beyond, has died. He was 91. David died of complications from a stroke Saturday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to his wife Eunice David.

Burt Bacharach's daughter commits suicide Fri Jan 5, 2006 The only child of pop songwriter Burt Bacharach and actress Angie Dickinson has committed suicide after a lifetime struggling with a form of autism, a spokeswoman for the former couple said on Friday. Nikki Bacharach, 40, died "quietly and peacefully" at her home in the northern Los Angeles municipality of Thousand Oaks on Thursday night, a statement said. The spokeswoman declined to specify the cause of death. She was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome following her premature birth in 1966, and her father recounted her struggles that year in the song "Nikki."...

Songwriter Burt Bacharach is releasing an explicit version of his controversial song Who Are These People? The song slams US President George W Bush and his administration and features Elvis Costello wailing an expletive at the end...

"Instead of pushing the funding (for hurricane defense) up, they took most of it away to fight this stupid war, and that's unforgivable. I think Bush is just about the poorest president we've ever had. You'd have to go back before I was born to find a worse one." - 77-year-old singer Burt Bacharach