One Amazing Night

Burt Bacharach - One Amazing Night

One Amazing Night
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Artist: Burt Bacharach
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-11-17
Music Label: Encoded Music
Soundtracks:
  1. One Less Bell To Answer - Sheyrl Crow
  2. All Saints - All Saints
  3. God Give Me Strength - Elvis Costello
  4. Baby It's You/A Message to Michael - Chrissie Hynde
  5. What's New Pussycat? - Mike Myers
  6. Anyone Who Had a Heart - Wynonna
  7. Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head - Ben Folds Five
  8. They Long To Be Close To You - Barenaked Ladies
  9. The Windows of the World/What the World Needs Now - Luther Vandross
  10. Wives and Lovers - David Sanborn & George Duke
  11. Walk On By/Say A Little Prayer/Do You Know the Way to San Jose - Dionne Warwick
  12. Alfie - Burt Bacharach

Music reviews of One Amazing Night

Music Review: Everything Old Is New Again: Really?
Rating: 1 Stars

Some absolutely HORRIBLE, murderous versions of some beautiful Bacharach music. Chryssie Hynde does ok with "Baby It's You" but destroys "Message To Michael" by breathing in all the wrong places.

Elvis Costello proves he understands and can sing Bacharach, but he doesn't have the vocal chords to pull it off pleasingly. "God Give Me Strength" and "This House Is Empty Now" would sound wonderful if sung by Dusty Springfield (one of his idols, and Bacharach's choice to sing the original versions of "The Look of Love" and "Wishin' & Hopin")...but Costello just doesn't cut it here.

What we learn from this CD and the live show it was recorded from, is that Burt Bacharach is not for everyone to sing. In the 60's we had Dionne, Dusty and Gene Pitney. In the 90's we have who? All Saints???

But luckily, as the CD progresses, Luther Vandross shows us the right way to sing Bacharach, with a beautifully luscious medley of "The Windows of the World" and "What The World Needs Now Is Love." (in 4/4 time versus the original 3/4)

Then, lastly, his mentor, Dionne Warwick, gives a virtual Bacharach singing lesson armed with her 40 year recording career and her over 20 top 40 hits with Bacharach. I hope the other performers took copious notes.

Dionne makes it look so easy, but after listening to several "young" artists make feeble attempts,and almost destroy Bacharach's music, you realize it really takes some serious musicality to sing Bacharach's work. What makes him so wonderfully complex is his seeming simplicity.

Wynona, All Saints, Barenaked Ladies, and especially Sheryl Crow...all have a long way to go before they can reach the interpretive heights of Luther and Dionne. In the meantime, who wants to watch them learn??

I say skip this CD and invest instead in the classic Dionne/Bacharach/David collaboration LP's from the mid to late 60's.

Also, Dusty Springfield and Gene Pitney are essential chapters in the Bacharach saga. It seems hard to even compare Springfield's "The Look of Love" or Pitney's "The Man That Shot Liberty Valance" to some of the substandard stuff on this CD.

If you want to listen to Bacharach, go to the pros and don't waste your time with the uninitiated.

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Description of One Amazing Night

The songwriting great, Burt Bacharach, is celebrated here by an illustrious group of performers who paid tribute to him during the inaugural episode of TNT's Master Series. Features performances from Cheryl Crow, All Saints, Elvis Costello, Chrissie Hynde, Mike Myers, Wynona, Ben Folds Five, Barenaked Ladies, Luther Vandross, David Sanborn and George Duke, Dionne Warwick and Bacharach himself. Acrobat 2007.
Bacharach, the king of relaxed, suave melodies that have quietly assumed a sentimental position in our lives, is celebrated here by a handful of performers who paid him tribute during the inaugural episode of TNT's Master Series. Sheryl Crow throws in the torch for a sultry "One Less Bell to Answer." Chrissie Hynde breaks past her leather-jacket toughness for a tender read of "Baby It's You" and "Message to Michael." Elvis Costello expertly performs his collaboration with Bacharach, the Grammy-awarded "God Give Me Strength" (from the Grace of My Heart soundtrack). Mike Myers camps up "What's New Pussycat?" But none can top the real thing. Dionne Warwick brings us back to the late '60s of Bacharach's prime with a riveting medley of "Walk On By/Say a Little Prayer/Do You Know the Way to San Jose." That and Bacharach's lush arranging skills make the title true to its word. --Rob O'Connor

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