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.:   BURT BACHARACH - THIS IS NOW BBC 1996 TV   :.

This TV Special from the BBC is a special about the life and works of Burt Bacharach, from his early beginnings until his comeback. There are seconds of several video clips from different artists and also parts of the rehearsing session for a concert in Montecarlo in 1995. Insights not only about his music, but also his life, check the guests and the transcription to have an idea of how this program is!
  
Show Information:
Broadcast Date: January 1, 1996
 
Hosts: Dusty Springfield (Narration)
Guests: Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, Hal David, Carole Bayer Sager, Elvis Costello, Richard Carpenter, Herb Alpert, Noel Gallagher
Directed and produced: Frances Dickenson & Caz Gorham
Production Company: Christmas TV & Film Company
Running Time: 50 minutes
   
Transcription of the Show
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- Note: Clip - Video clips are very short, a few seconds only. Some are also from Montecarlo 1995 rehearsal session
 
- Clip: Marlene Dietrich (Stockholm 1963) introducing Burt Bacharach
- Opening Credits
- Clip: Twiggy Twiggy - Pizzicato Five
- Clip: Always (something there's to remind me) - Tin Tin Out featuring Espirtu
- Clip: Make it easy on yourself - Amar
- Noel Gallagher from Oasis talks about Bacharach's music

- Clip: What's New Pussycat? - Tom Jones
- Clip: I Say a Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin
- Clip: A House is not a Home - Dusty Springfield and Burt Bacharach

- Narration by Dusty Springfield and again, Noel Gallagher
- Clip: Overture - Burt Bacharach conducting rehearsal on Montecarlo 1995
- Bacharach talks about marrying and his beginnings, his Sonatina
- Clip: Magic Moments - The Perry Como Show 1958
- Bacharach talks about his piano lessons and wanting to be a sports-man like his father, bip-bop
- Clip: Baby it's You - The Shirelles
- Narration by Dusty about Bacharach at the army
- Bacharach talks about Marlene Dietrich, she adviced him never to be married but he did four times!
- Hal Davis talks about how he met Bacharach, the Brill Building,
- Dionne Warwick talks about how she met Bacharach, Bacharach and David as producers and creating Scepter Records
- Bacharach talks about Dionne Warwick and how difficult Don't Make Me Over was
- Dionne Warwick talks about how difficult was singing Bacharach songs
- Hal Davis talks about the kind of songs they wrote
- Clip: What's New Pussycat - Burt Bacharach conducting rehearsal on Montecarlo 1995
- Bacharach talks about how he was suggested to change his songs at the beginning
- Clip: Tonight 1964 with Burt Bacharach
- Clip: I Just Don't Know What to do With Myself - Dusty Springfield

- Clip: Anyone who had a Heart - Dionne Warwick
- Cilla Black talks about her cover of Anyone who had a Heart and how it was a big hit and Dionne "never forgive her"
- Dionne Warwick says that the organ made the wrong note and it was released as that

- Clip: Walk on By - Dionne Warwick
- Hal David saying that it was an osmosis process
- Clip: Walk on By - Isaac Hayes 1972
- Clip: Walk on By - The Stranglers 1978
- Clip: Walk on By - Dionne Warwick 1995

- Elvis Costello talks about Bacharach songs
- Clip: Alfie Recording Session Abbey Road Studios 1966 with Bacharach, orchestra and Cilla Black
- Cilla talks about singing Alfie and how it hurt to sing that song
- Elvis Costello talks about how handsome Burt was ...
- Dionne warwick appears at the rehearsal (Montecarlo 1995)

- Clip: This Guy's in Love with you - Herb Alpert 1968
- Noel Gallagher talks about This Guy's In Love with You and how he used part of the tune in Half the World Away
- Herb Alpert about Bacharach songs

- Clip: (There's) Always Something to Remind Me - Burt Bacharach conducting rehearsal on Montecarlo 1995
- Richard Carpenter on the arrangement of songs, and the one he did for Close to You
- Clip: Close to You - The Carpenters

- Narration of Dusty about 1970, and the release of Butch Cassidy movie, the two Oscars for that movie
- Narration of Dusty about Promises Promises musical and comments by David Merrick producer and Angie Dickinson, only voices
- Clip: I'll Never Fall in Love Again - Dionne Warkwick

- Narration of Dusty about it took near 10 years to get another song in No.1, his split to Angie Dickinson and Hal David
- Burt Bacharach talks about the split with Hal David
- Dionne Warwick how the split of Bacharach and David affected her with her contract

- Bacharach talks about Woman LP with the Houston Symphony, how expensive it was and a failure
- Carole Bayer Sager talks about the pressure of the fans for more songs

- Clip: Arthur's Theme - Burt Bacharach conducting rehearsal on Montecarlo 1995
- Carole Bayer Sager talks about their start their relationship and works
- Burt Bacharach talks about a marriage working together

- Carole Bayer Sager talks about how perfectionist Bacharach is on That's What Friends are For
- Dionne Warwick singing That's What Friends are For with Burt Bacharach conducting rehearsal on Montecarlo 1995
- Clip: Grammy Awards 1996 winning for That's What Friends are For

- Bacharach on his passion for horses

- Narration of Dusty with footage of Bacharach working with Gillian Lynne
- Gillian Lynne about working with Bacharach
- Elvis Costello about the Lynne's movie and how he worked with Bacharach on the phone
- Richard Carpenter about the melodies and arrangements of Bacharach

- Clip: Captives of the Heart - Dionne Warwick singing and Burt Bacharach conducting rehearsal on Montecarlo 1995
- Bacharach says "it's hard to write music"

- Going out of the stage after ending the concert
- Closing Credits with Erasure's version of Magic Moments
  

Opening Credits
Opening Credits
 
Bacharach conducting at rehearsal session for a concert
Bacharach conducting at rehearsal session for a concert
 
Burt Bacharach
Hal David
Dionne Warwick
Cilla Black
Elvis Costello
Richard Carpenter
Noel Gallagher from Oasis
Several artists and Bacharach talk about his music and experiences
 
Alfie Recording Session 1966
Alfie - Recording Session 1966 with Cilla Black singing
 
Dionne Warwick reunited with Bachach for Montecarlo 1995 concert
Dionne Warwick reunited with Bacharach for Montecarlo 1995 concert
 
Carole Bayer Sager on how she met Bacharach
Carole Bayer Sager on how she met Bacharach
 
Carole Bayer Sager and Bacharach at Grammy Awards
Carole Bayer Sager and Bacharach at Grammy Awards

Bacharach and family at the races!
Bacharach and family at the races!
 
Work in progress (Grace of my Heart movie)
Work with Elvis Costello over the phone
Work with Elvis Costello for the movie Grace of my Heart
 
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