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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:
- 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
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Opening Credits

Bacharach conducting at rehearsal session for a concert







Several artists and Bacharach talk about his music and
experiences

Alfie - Recording Session 1966 with Cilla Black singing

Dionne Warwick reunited with Bacharach for Montecarlo 1995
concert

Carole Bayer Sager on how she met Bacharach

Carole Bayer Sager and Bacharach at Grammy Awards

Bacharach and family at the races!


Work with Elvis Costello for the movie Grace of my Heart
more photos
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