Burt Bacharach box set to be released

Universal Music Catalogue will celebrate the work of one of the most accomplished and well loved popular composer/songwriters with the release of the definitive Burt Bacharach collection on 10th June '13.

Entitled 'The Art Of The Songwriter - Anyone Who Had A Heart' it will feature 6 CDs of music that take the listener through an astonishing six decades of music making, from Burt's earliest steps in songwriting back in the 50s for artists such as Gene Vincent, Jerry Lewis and The Drifters through his peerless collaborations with lyricist Hal David that have given us many standards in the pop cannon - 'Walk On By', 'Magic Moments', 'I Say A Little Prayer', 'Alfie', 'Do You Know The Way To San Jose', 'Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head' and many more - and his work with some of the greatest singers in music including Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield, Tom Jones, Perry Como, Gene Pitney, Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, The Walker Bros, and bringing us right up to date with his more recent collaborations with Elvis Costello and Rufus Wainwright.

'The Art Of The Songwriter - Anyone Who Had A Heart' features six compilation discs:

Disc 1 Magic Moments
Disc 2 There's Always Something There To Remind Me
Disc 3 Let The Music Play
Disc 4 That's What Friends Are For
Disc 5 Burt plays Bacharach
Disc 6 Bacharach meets Jazz

The box will also include a 40 page hardback book written by official biographer Robert Greenfield which is illustrated with a whole host of fabulous pictures from Burt's illustrious career.

'The Art Of The Songwriter - Anyone Who Had A Heart' invites the listener to delve into many of Bacharach's most legendary, career-defining songs, while his new autobiography (written with award winning author and former associate editor at Rolling Stone, Robert Greenfield), Anyone Who Had A Heart: My Life and Music, offers a frank and riveting account of his life and the stories behind the hits. The book will be published in hardback and on ebook by Atlantic Books on June 6th.

Burt, who celebrates his 85th birthday on May 12th this year, is still treading the boards a good sixty years since his first record was released and will tour Europe in June and July. The UK dates are as follows:

JUNE
26 LONDON Royal Festival Hall
28 GLASGOW Royal Concert Hall
29 EDINBURGH Usher Hall

JULY
5 BOURNEMOUTH Pavilion Theatre
7 LONDON Royal Festival Hall

'The Art Of The Songwriter - Anyone Who Had A Heart' will be available as a 6 disc box set and a carefully edited 2 CD hits set. The tracklistings for both sets are:

BOX SET VERSION / 6 DISCS

Disc 1 – MAGIC MOMENTS

1. Mel Tormé These Desperate Hours
2. Patti Page Keep Me In Mind
3. Sherry Parsons Peggy's In The Pantry
4. Alan Dale I Cry More
5. Marty Robbins The Story Of My Life
6. Jerry Lewis Sad Sack
7. Gale Storm Winter Warm
8. The Five Blobs The Blob
9. Perry Como Magic Moments
10. Sonny James Dream Big
11. Jane Morgan With Open Arms
12. Al Alberts, The Four Aces Paradise Island
13. Gene Vincent Crazy Times
14. Charlie Gracie I Looked For You
15. Everit Herter Boys Were Made For Girls
16. The Shirelles Baby It's You
17. Frankie Avalon Gotta Get A Girl
18. The Drifters Please Stay
19. Gloria Lynne (You Don't Have To Be A) Tower Of Strength
20. Tommy Sands Love In A Goldfish Bowl
21. Gene Pitney The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
22. Cliff Richard & The Shadows (It's) Wonderful To Be Young
23. Dean Barlow Third Window From The Right
24. Gene Pitney Only Love Can Break A Heart
25. Jane Morgan Waiting For Charley To Come Home
26. The Drifters Mexican Divorce

Disc 2 – THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING THERE TO REMIND ME

1. Jack Jones Dreamin' All The Time
2. Babs Tino Forgive Me (For Giving You Such A Bad Time)
3. Marlene Dietrich Kleine Treue Nachtigall
4. Jack Jones Wives And Lovers
5. Jimmy Radcliffe There Goes The Forgotten Man
6. Dionne Warwick Anyone Who Had A Heart
7. Dusty Springfield Wishin' And Hopin'
8. Bobby Vinton Blue On Blue
9. Bobby Vee Be True To Yourself
10. Richard Chamberlain (They Long To Be) Close To You
11. Adam Wade Rain From The Skies
12. Dionne Warwick Walk On By
13. Dusty Springfield I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
14. Sandie Shaw (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me
15. Dusty Springfield Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa
16. The Merseybeats It's Love That Really Counts
17. Gene Pitney True Love Never Runs Smooth
18. Brook Benton A House Is Not A Home
19. Bobby Goldsboro Me Japanese Boy I Love You
20. Doris Day Send Me No Flowers
21. The Searchers This Empty Place
22. Manfred Mann My Little Red Book
23. Freddie And The Dreamers I Fell In Love With Your Picture
24. Tom Jones What's New Pussycat?
25. Jackie DeShannon What The World Needs Now Is Love
26. Marianne Faithfull If I Never Get To Love You

Disc 3 – LET THE MUSIC PLAY

1. Barbra Streisand Alfie
2. Dionne Warwick Are You There (With Another Girl)
3. Walker Brothers Another Tear Falls
4. Rick Nelson They Don't Give Medals (To Yesterday's Heroes)
5. The Hollies, Peter Sellers After The Fox
6. Anita Kerr Singers In Between The Heartaches
7. Aretha Franklin I Say A Little Prayer
8. Dusty Springfield The Look Of Love
9. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Burt Bacharach Casino Royale
10. Roland Shaw And His Orchestra Let the Love Come Through
11. Diana Ross & The Supremes Let The Music Play
12. Dionne Warwick Do You Know The Way To San José
13. Jerry Orbach Promises, Promises
14. Petula Clark This Girl's In Love With You
15. Scott Walker, Peter Knight Windows Of The World
16. B.J. Thomas Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
17. Engelbert Humperdinck I'm A Better Man (For Having Loved You)
18. Johnny Mathis Odds And Ends (A Beautiful Love Affair)
19. Elvis Presley Any Day Now (My Beautiful Bird)
20. Jill O'Hara Whoever You Are
21. The 5th Dimension One Less Bell To Answer
22. Aretha Franklin The April Fools
23. The Stylistics You'll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart)
24. The 5th Dimension Living Together, Growing Together
25. Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye The Things I Will Not Miss

Disc 4 - THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR

1. Julie Rogers Long After Tonight Is All Over
2. Tom Jones Us
3. Stephanie Mills I See You For The First Time
4. Jackie DeShannon I Don't Need You Anymore
5. Christopher Cross Arthur's Theme (Best You Can Do)
6. Carole Bayer Sager, Michael Jackson Just Friends
7. Neil Diamond Heartlight
8. Christopher Cross A Chance For Heaven
9. Natalie Cole In My Reality
10. Gladys Knight & The Pips Overnight Success
11. Patti LaBelle Need A Little Faith
12. James Ingram Sing For The Children
13. Dionne Warwick Sunny Weather Lover
14. Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach Toledo
15. Will Young What's In Goodbye
16. Burt Bacharach, Rufus Wainwright Go Ask Shakespeare
17. Burt Bacharach, Jamie Cullum Make It Easy On Yourself (Live BBC Electric Proms)
18. Ronan Keating, Burt Bacharach I'll Never Fall In Love Again
19. Rumer Some Lovers

Disc 5 – BURT PLAYS BACHARACH

1. Burt Bacharach Bond Street
2. Burt Bacharach Don't Go Breaking My Heart
3. Burt Bacharach Walk On By
4. Burt Bacharach Alfie
5. Burt Bacharach Something Big
6. Burt Bacharach Saturday Sunshine
7. Burt Bacharach I Say A Little Prayer
8. Burt Bacharach Nikki
9. Burt Bacharach South American Getaway
10. Burt Bacharach The Windows Of The World
11. Burt Bacharach Hasbrook Heights
12. Burt Bacharach Reach Out For Me
13. Burt Bacharach The Sundance Kid
14. Burt Bacharach Promises, Promises
15. Burt Bacharach,The Houston Symphony Summer Of '77
16. Burt Bacharach And So Goodbye My Love
17. Burt Bacharach I Come To You
18. Burt Bacharach Walk The Way You Talk
19. Burt Bacharach Trains And Boats And Planes
20. Burt Bacharach The Young Grow Younger Every Day
21. Burt Bacharach Another Spring Will Rise
22. Burt Bacharach Don't Make Me Over
23. Burt Bacharach Futures
24. Burt Bacharach Whoever You Are I Love You

Disc 6 – BACHARACH MEETS JAZZ

1. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 The Look Of Love
2. Wes Montgomery What The World Needs Now Is Love
3. George Benson Walk On By
4. Diane Schuur Never Take That Chance Again
5. Roy Ayers Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
6. Ramsey Lewis Do You Know The Way To San Jose
7. Ella Fitzgerald Wives And Lovers
8. Jimmy Smith This Guy's In Love With You
9. Lena Horne Out Of My Continental Mind
10. Lou Rawls They Don't Give Medals (To Yesterday's Heroes)
11. Charlie Byrd I'll Never Fall In Love Again
12. Stan Getz Any Old Time Of The Day
13. Astrud Gilberto Don't Go Breaking My Heart
14. Nancy Wilson Alfie
15. Laima Baby It's You
16. Bill Evans Trio A House Is Not A Home
17. McCoy Tyner Trio One Less Bell To Answer


'ANYONE WHO HAD A HEART – The Art Of The Songwriter – The Best Of Burt Bacharach''

HITS VERSION / 2 DISCS

DISC 1

1. Aretha Franklin I Say A Little Prayer
2. Dionne Warwick Walk On By
3. Dusty Springfield I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
4. Tom Jones What's New Pussycat?
5. The Shirelles Baby It's You
6. Burt Bacharach Trains And Boats And Planes
7. Elvis Presley Any Day Now (My Beautiful Bird)
8. B.J. Thomas Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
9. Scott Walker, Peter Knight Windows Of The World
10. Diana Ross & The Supremes Let The Music Play
11. Richard Chamberlain (They Long To Be) Close To You
12. The Drifters Please Stay
13. Patti LaBelle Need A Little Faith
14. Etta James Waiting For Charlie (To Come Home)
15. Patti Page Keep Me In Mind
16. Jack Jones Wives And Lovers
17. Dusty Springfield Wishin' And Hopin'
18. Barbra Streisand Alfie
19. The Stylistics You'll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart)
20. Gene Pitney Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa


DISC 2

1. Dionne Warwick Do You Know The Way To San José
2. Cilla Black Alfie
3. Adam Faith Message To Martha
4. Perry Como Magic Moments
5. Sandie Shaw (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me
6. Jackie DeShannon What The World Needs Now Is Love
7. Dusty Springfield The Look Of Love
8. Brook Benton A House Is Not A Home
9. Walker Brothers Another Tear Falls
10. Burt Bacharach Don't Go Breaking My Heart
11. Dionne Warwick Anyone Who Had A Heart
12. Burt Bacharach, Jamie Cullum Make It Easy On Yourself (Live BBC Electric Proms)
13. Marty Robbins The Story Of My Life
14. Christopher Cross Arthur's Theme (Best You Can Do)
15. Neil Diamond Heartlight
16. Diana Krall The Look Of Love
17. Isaac Hayes I'll Never Fall In Love Again
18. Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach God Give Me Strength
19. Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye The Things I Will Not Miss
20. Petula Clark This Girl's In Love With You

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