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The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection | 
 enlarge | Artist: Burt Bacharach
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $49.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 51288
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10 x 5.7 x 0.9
MPN: 75339
UPC: 081227533922
EAN: 0081227533922
ASIN: B00000DGR0
Release Date: November 3, 1998
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | The Story of My Life | | • | Magic Moments | | • | The Blob | | • | Please Stay | | • | I Wake Up Crying | | • | Tower of Strength | | • | Baby It's You | | • | Mexican Divorce | | • | (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance | | • | Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird) | | • | Make It Easy on Yourself | | • | I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself | | • | It's Love That Really Counts (In the Long Run) | | • | Only Love Can Break a Heart | | • | (There Goes) The Forgotten Man | | • | Don't Make Me Over | | • | Let the Music Play | | • | Blue on Blue | | • | True Love Never Runs Smooth | | • | Blue Guitar | | • | Reach Out for Me | | • | Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa | | • | Anyone Who Had a Heart | | • | A House Is Not a Home | | • | Wives and Lovers | | • | Wishin' and Hopin' |
Disc 2
| • | Walk on By | | • | (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me | | • | Me Japanese Boy I Love You | | • | To Wait for Love | | • | Kentucky Bluebird (Send a Message to Martha) | | • | Land of Make Believe | | • | The Last One to Be Loved | | • | Fool Killer | | • | Don't Go Breaking My Heart | | • | What the World Needs Now Is Love | | • | Trains and Boats and Planes | | • | What's New Pussycat? | | • | My Little Red Book | | • | Here I Am | | • | A Lifetime of Loneliness | | • | Made in Paris | | • | Promise Her Anything | | • | Are You There (With Another Girl) | | • | Come and Get Me | | • | Alfie | | • | In Between the Heartaches | | • | Nikki | | • | So Long Johnny | | • | The Windows of the World | | • | Take a Broken Heart | | • | I Say a Little Prayer | | • | Casino Royale |
Disc 3
| • | The Look of Love | | • | Do You Know the Way to San Jose | | • | This Guy's in Love With You | | • | Knowing When to Leave | | • | Promises, Promises | | • | Pacific Coast Highway | | • | Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head | | • | Odds and Ends | | • | Everybody's out of Town | | • | I'll Never Fall in Love Again | | • | (They Long to Be) Close to You | | • | Paper Mache | | • | One Less Bell To Answer - The 5th Dimension | | • | Check Out Time | | • | Hasbrook Heights | | • | The Balance of Nature | | • | Living Together, Growing Together | | • | You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart) | | • | Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) | | • | On My Own | | • | That's What Friends Are For | | • | God Give Me Strength |
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Amazon.com essential recording
The greatest expression of Burt Bacharach's composing and arranging talents is the marvelous string of productions he made with Dionne Warwick and lyricist Hal David for a decade or so starting in 1962. Many of their triumphs are included in this three-CD box (also see the single disc The Dionne Warwick Collection), along with dozens of other tracks made between 1957 (Marty Robbins's "Story of My Life") and 1996 (Bacharach's collaboration with Elvis Costello on "God Give Me Strength"). The master's blend of froth, deep emotion, and challenging musicality provides many masterpieces and a few unfortunate moments: he doesn't have much to show for the '80s aside from "That's What Friends Are For" and "Arthur's Theme." Its handful of missteps aside, though, The Look of Love is an essential trove of great pop things. --Rickey Wright
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| Customer Reviews: Read 39 more reviews...
The best... June 7, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Without a doubt, this is the best album that I have ever owned...well maybe next to Steely Dan's Aja, which was the first I ever owned. I love the lyrics, the tempo changes and the genius that is Burt Bacharach and Hal David. This album is even more haunting for me since the untimely death of Burt's daughter Nikki. Nikki was one of my favorite songs, even before I ever knew who it was written for, but even more so now. All the Dionne Warwick hits plus Tom Jones, Trini Lopez, Bobby Goldsboro, Dusty Springfield et al, this is a must have for any true Bacharach afficianado.
Wingtips, Telstar, Rotary, 1964 Worlds Fair... April 4, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Fantastic Voyage, Ursula Andress, AM Radio, Sean Connery, Paisley, Man From Uncle...
In short, Burt Bacharach represents pop culture of the 1960's. At it's apogee. Like a moon shot Bacharach's gorgeous melodies and Hal David's brilliant lyrics spanning the decade from the Blob to Movie of The Week. From Bobby Vinton to the Age of Aquarius. Sock Hop to Woodstock.
Essential: Frankie Valli, Beach Boys, Beatles, Stones, Airplane, Sinatra... Bacharach.
Great music of... and beyond... it's era. Timeless... as long as Anyone Has A Heart and The World Needs Love.
This is MUSIC. Not hip hop. Orchestral, composed, inspired.
Genius.
Burt's Beanery March 27, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
WOW. This series of albums is wonderful PLUS A whole CD of Dionne Warwick doesn't hurt!
I'm amazed at how many of these songs i've forgotten but when I hear a few notes I recall the entire song... sort of like I had amnesia or something! Its amazing that so many of the songs in this list are in the mainstream ... still after as much as 40 years!
This is a definite BUY
DIG THAT BACH-AH-RACH January 25, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
my late uncle hipped me to ole burt. i love what he did with a track.........those percussive horns, man!!!!! i dig this. although i do not like all the joints on here, it's a good thing to have. what stands out for me on here are the lou johnson joints. i especially love REACH OUT FOR ME. more standouts for me are IT'S LOVE THAT REALLY COUNTS (IN THE LONG RUN) by the shirrelles and PLEASE STAY by the drifters. now i like some of the dionne warwick songs on here, but in the liner notes, i think her reasons for doing some of those songs were ridiculous. i thought it was her on WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS LOVE. i had no idea that it was a white lady. amazing vocal arrangement. another that just came to mind is DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART. actually, that is like my fave on here. i wished that they would've put dionne warwick's version of YOU'LL NEVER GET TO HEAVEN IF YOU BREAK MY HEART ON HERE though. the stylistics did their thing, but i prefer the original. all in all, it is wonderful, but then again, it is another reason i am a skeptic whenm it comes to box sets.
Superb historical box set September 20, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is not a "greatest hits" set, though many of Bacharach's greatest hits are contained here. Rather, it's a fascinating historical view of the progression of the songwriter(s) through four decades. It is truly instructive to listen to some of the less well-known pieces. The book that is included in the box set is an essential component: The writers really knew what they were talking about, and I've spent hours reading along with the (very detailed) descriptions of each song's history.
Highly recommended.
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