1. Mexican Divorce- The Drifters2. I Say a Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin 3. The Look of Love - Dusty Springfield4. I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself - Dusty Springfield5. My Little Red Book - Love6. Don’t Make Me Over - Dionne Warwick7. Any Day Now - Elvis Presley8. Make It Easy On Yourself - Jerry Butler9. Baby, It’s You - The Beatles10. Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa -Dusty Springfield11. Anyone Who Had a Heart - Dionne Warwick12. Walk On By - Dionne Warwick 13. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Gene Pitney 14. One Less Bell To Answer - The 5th Dimension 15. Do You Know the Way to San Jose - Dionne Warwick16. I’ll Never Fall In Love Again - Dionne Warwick17. What the World Needs Now Is Love - Jackie DeShannon18. The Story of My Life - Marty Robbins19. Are You There (With Another Girl) - Dionne Warwick20. Wishin’ and Hopin’ - Dusty Springfield 21. Always Something There To Remind Me - Naked Eyes22. Promises, Promises - Dionne Warwick23. This Guy’s In Love With You - Herb Alpert24. (They Long To Be) Close to You - The Carpenters25. Only Love Can Break a Heart - Gene Pitney26. What’s New Pussycat? - Tom Jones27. April Fools - Aretha Franklin28. Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head - B.J. Thomas29. Casino Royale - Herb Alpert30. Nikki - Burt Bacharach
― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
I really labored quite a bit over this ballot, it was like solving a puzzle.
― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
Honestly I’m not a big POLL or ranked list guy (just in case you didn’t know and you cared), but I found this poll a really useful and fun way to navigate through and get some sort of handle on his sprawling catalog.
― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link
that is basically how i went about this. i basically took it for granted that we were all here to celebrate burt bacharach's work and that therefore we all had some degree of appreciation and respect for the music. a more "honest" ballot from me would have been 85% dionne and burt instrumentals. but i just thought it would be more interesting to find as many cool alternate versions i could and then rank them more or less haphazardly with a handful of exceptions at the top.
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
, basically
― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs),
All my favorite polls have been just like that. Also, I just noticed we both had "My Little Red Book" at #5 but in different versions.
I started this thread a year ago tomorrow, Happy Burtday every day.
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link
See you here next year, unless you are there with another URL.
― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link
haaaaa
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
Just noticed that the big pre-voting playlist has only 11 followers which means that six - or maybe five, I guess - balloteers were flying commando.
― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
It had 13 or 14 around voting time iirc.
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link
The other thing I did on my ballot in addition to what budo jeru talked about is I ended up adding back in what I had though of as corny old songs I liked as a kid that I thought maybe I had outgrown but which I now actually fond tolerable to likable to catchy. I'm talking to you "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" and "Close To You"!
― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
Did you just recently add a version of "You'll Never Get To Heaven If You Break My Heart" to the big playlist?
― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 May 2020 15:35 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I heard it on WFMU last week and liked it. The sax sounds a lot like John Medeski's mellotron on "San Jose."
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Thursday, 14 May 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
the MMW "san jose" was def one of my favorite discoveries
― budo jeru, Thursday, 14 May 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
I was wrong about the number of followers, the results playlist has 11 followers, but the pre-vote playlist has 17.
― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 May 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
I think that's a recent jump! I could have sworn it was at 11 when I added the Gendel/Wilkes track.
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Thursday, 14 May 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link
Maybe people refollowed after thread bump?
― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 May 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
That plus lurkers. Thanks, lurkers!
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Thursday, 14 May 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
Happy Burtday.I reread this thread the other day and it was such a joy. I'd redo the whole poll over again in a minute if I thought it'd get 30 voters.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 15 May 2020 03:44 (four years ago) link
Sorry to be a corny ILX0r, but came to post a link to our late friend Ρεμπετολογια's (Rembetologia) playlist that he presumably created to go along with this poll:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7zfUsIqDVnqEgYJa2hIGU4?si=6cJ68X9FSBqO3JmXef71AA
― Spocks on the Run (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 May 2020 16:23 (four years ago) link
Happy Birthday, Hal David! Apparently "The Story of My Life" was their first hit.
― Trouble Is My Métier (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 May 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
And Happy Birthday, Mack David! Sha-la-la-la-la, Mack. Why don't you just slip away?
― Lipstick O.G. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 July 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
1. The Blob — 1243 Points, 17 Votes, 3 first-place voteslyric: Mack DavidThe Five Blobs, 1959 single, 1243 points — https://youtu.be/OG2-ccAEcWs
― WmC, Friday, May 17, 2019 3:08 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
Ha! If I'd voted, I would've voted for the blob as my #1
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 6 July 2020 05:03 (four years ago) link
Added the Bill Evans/Eddie Gómez/Jack DeJohnette "Alfie" to the big playlist.
― Scampos Runamuck (WmC), Monday, 17 August 2020 01:35 (four years ago) link
Cool!
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 August 2020 01:38 (four years ago) link
Short new interview: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/qanda-with-burt-bacharach-how-the-92-year-old-composer-has-kept-working-during-the-pandemic/2020/10/08/dea735f2-07f3-11eb-9be6-cf25fb429f1a_story.html
― (show hidden tics) (WmC), Monday, 12 October 2020 13:15 (three years ago) link
DJ Ira the K is playing a version of "Wives and Lovers" by Jackie Mittoo and I was going to put it on the big playlist but it's not on Spotify, :(
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 04:02 (three years ago) link
Sorry.Listening to Ρεμπετολογια's playlist right now.
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WCqIbOlvdU
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Thursday, 4 March 2021 02:15 (three years ago) link
Burt might outlive every person he ever worked with:
It is with profound sadness we confirm the passing of BJ Thomas. pic.twitter.com/l2zrmtfmKw— BJ Thomas (@TheBJThomas) May 29, 2021
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 29 May 2021 23:21 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8xvbJp1BK8
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 August 2021 22:27 (three years ago) link
On Spotify too!
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 August 2021 22:30 (three years ago) link
Nice, added them to the big playlist, including versions of "What the World Needs Now Is Love" by the Staples Singers and Mahalia Jackson. And an album of BB covers by the New Valley Orchestra & Chorus, whoever they are.
― Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 00:31 (three years ago) link
Cool! Do you use some kind of other plugin to keep it alphabetized?
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 00:38 (three years ago) link
No...in the desktop app there are several ways to sort it.
― Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 00:56 (three years ago) link
Just heard this one on WFMU -- Augustus Pablo covering "A House Is Not a Home." Not on Spotify so it won't be on the big playlist, sorry to say.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khnZ3t0o0ZM
― Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 14:15 (two years ago) link
Trinjtje Oosterhuis was just one of the great discoveries on this thread, although I can’t think of any others right now.
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 04:50 (two years ago) link
Just heard this one on WFMU -- Augustus Pablo covering "A House Is Not a Home." Not on Spotify so it won't be on the big playlist, sorry to say.📹
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 2 December 2021 13:30 (two years ago) link
Is there any song that can't be successfully reggae-fied?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 December 2021 13:31 (two years ago) link
Tend to doubt it
― Duck and Sally Can’t Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 December 2021 13:33 (two years ago) link
PBS is running a "My Music" special on Bacharach, with a bunch of nice vintage TV clips of Dionne & Dusty & the rest hosted by a tuxedo-clad Robert Wagner, who I'm certain is positively reeking of Drakkar Noir and dead starlets.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 6 December 2021 01:28 (two years ago) link
Heard this for the first time a couple of days ago --https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx_UciEAh9s
― If you were really hard core, you'd have thrown a full bottle (WmC), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 00:53 (two years ago) link
Nice.
I remember this poll rather fondly. I suspect I engaged in more hours of listening than for any other poll!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 01:37 (two years ago) link
Brought to mind "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" for me--maybe a direct influence on that?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 03:02 (two years ago) link
Just found out about this version. The singer still does regular brunch gigs in NYChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLdCzrixVzw
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 July 2022 13:04 (two years ago) link
This version with you-know-who is pretty good:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIeqQ105w2E
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 July 2022 13:06 (two years ago) link
WTF is Paul Hampton?
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 July 2022 16:12 (two years ago) link
Who sings on the 1971 version of Mexican Divorce? Absolutely love that version but haven't been able to figure it out.
― bulb after bulb, Sunday, 17 July 2022 16:29 (two years ago) link
1971 version?
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 July 2022 16:36 (two years ago) link
Under Burt’s name?
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 July 2022 16:38 (two years ago) link