Her fingerprint can be heard on songs by Shirley Bassey (on 1957’s “The Banana Boat Song”), Marlene Dietrich (1954’s “I Am a Camera”), Frankie Vaughan (the 1961 Burt Bacharach song ...

What the world needs now, many Burt Bacharach fans can agree, is for that deep catalog of songs to not be consigned to history. Stepping up to present much of that material in a new light is a ...

But for the sonorously starved among us, a bit of manna from a more euphonious heaven has arrived in the form of “What the World Needs Now: The Burt Bacharach Songbook Live in Concert,” a ...

There is, as the song says, always something there to remind Rob Shirakbari about Burt Bacharach. The musician, producer, composer and orchestrator spent more than 35 years as the music director ...

He was enticed back by the opportunity to celebrate Burt Bacharach, a songwriter whose work Rundgren considers consistently high-quality. Rundgren connects deeply with Bacharach's music ...

In 1964, singer-songwriter Todd Rundgren wasn’t quite 16 years old when a Burt Bacharach song first caught his attention. “The first thing I heard, or the first thing I reacted to, was ‘Walk ...