RIP Burt Bacharach

*triplexxx* · 02-09-2023, 09:22 AM

Legendary composer, pianist, and pop musician Burt Bacharach has passed to heaven at 94.

Burt was a winner of several Academy Awards for soundtrack scores and songs, many Grammy Awards, including Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for Greatest Living Composer in 2008, appeared with his piano in the Austin Powers series and several other flicks, a lot of his work he did along with his late friend, lyricist Hal David, specialized in easy listening, a lot of their compositions performed by Dionne Warwick, also composed hits for The Carpenters, Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield, B. J. Thomas, Christopher Cross, Roberta Flack, Neil Diamond, and many others.

Will always love your music Burt, keep entertaining in heaven.

02-09-2023, 09:22 AM	#1
triplexxx Mad Scientist Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,596	RIP Burt Bacharach Legendary composer, pianist, and pop musician Burt Bacharach has passed to heaven at 94. Burt was a winner of several Academy Awards for soundtrack scores and songs, many Grammy Awards, including Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for Greatest Living Composer in 2008, appeared with his piano in the Austin Powers series and several other flicks, a lot of his work he did along with his late friend, lyricist Hal David, specialized in easy listening, a lot of their compositions performed by Dionne Warwick, also composed hits for The Carpenters, Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield, B. J. Thomas, Christopher Cross, Roberta Flack, Neil Diamond, and many others. Will always love your music Burt, keep entertaining in heaven. __________________ Please don't shoot me Mr. Big Mike. I'm too young and good-looking to die, well too young. I got a father, I got a mother, I got a grandmother, I got a little sister...and a little brother this high (raises hand), and a little brother this high (lowers hand), and little brother this high (lowers hand), and a little brother this high (lowers hand), and a little brother this high (lowers hand) and then I got a great big brother this high (slaps gun and runs). "Fright Night" - Three Stooges