Isley and Bacharach will also perform on Late Night with Conan O'Brien (NBC), which airs at 12:35 a.m. on November 12. They are currently in Chicago to tape a performance for the acclaimed PBS music series Soundstage which will air in early 2004.
Each concert performance will re-create the impeccably recorded landmark collection, which presents some of contemporary music's most popular songs-from the Hal David / Burt Bacharach songbook, performed by Isley backed by a full orchestra, conducted and arranged by Bacharach.
Of Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head," esteemed pianist and cabarett singer Michael Feinstein said in Entertainment Weekly: This [version] is beautiful, because it makes me enjoy hearing this song again. Sometimes you have to completely reinterpret and reinvent something, and that's what he does. It's very sexy, and it's gorgeous...It's definitely an album that's gong to be great, ummm, wooing music."
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