Award-winning composer Burt Bacharach (photo via Facebook)Grammy and Oscar winning composer Burt Bacharach, a dominant force in pop music for over 50 years, has died of natural causes at his Los Angeles home at the age of 84.
Folks, there are songwriters – and then there are SONGWRITERS.
6 Grammys, 3 Oscars, 73 Top 40 hits in the U.S. & 52 Top 40 hits in the UK. Over 1,000 different artists recorded his songs.
Rest in peace, Burt Bacharach. His many award wins included three Oscars: original score for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and original song for "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)." https://t.co/P9qiU3frYY
— Variety (@Variety) February 9, 2023
From Variety:
His songs — many of them written with lyricist Hal David — became chart-topping successes, particularly in the hands of vocalist Dionne Warwick. Among ’60s songwriting duos, only Lennon-McCartney rivaled Bacharach-David in terms of commercial and artistic achievement. Bacharach collected six Grammys as a writer, arranger and performer from 1967-2005.
His music was ubiquitous on screens both big and small in the ’60s and ’70s, and he was recognized by the Academy Awards and Golden Globes for his work on “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969) and “Arthur” (1981). He collected a 1971 Emmy for a TV recital of his work.
On Broadway, the 1968 Bacharach-David tuner “Promises, Promises” rolled up 1,281 performances and garnered a Tony nomination as best musical.
Hal David, his longtime writing partner, passed away in 2012.
Read more about Bacharach and his incredible legacy here.