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Traincha w/ Metropole Orchestra: This Girl's In Love: Burt Bacharach Songbook

by Chris May
August 5, 2009

You don't need to be Austin Powers to enjoy Burt Bacharach. The composer is a primogeniture descendant of the geniuses who created the great American songbook--the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, Irving Berlin, and their contemporaries. Usually in the company of lyricist Hal David, Bacharach wrote and arranged some of the most grown-up chart music of the 1960s, a body of work that enjoyed huge success despite everything--first Bob Dylan, then The Beatles, and finally acid rock--that was thrown at ...