lang ( 2003 ), James Taylor ( 2004 ), Babyface ( 2005 ), Burt Bacharach ( 2006 ), Quincy Jones ( 2007 ), Lionel Richie ( 2008 ) and Julie Andrews ( 2009 ).

* 1928 – Burt Bacharach, American pianist, composer, and producer

Later in 1998, Crow took part in a live concert in tribute to Burt Bacharach, in which she contributed vocals on One Less Bell to Answer.

* May 12 – Burt Bacharach, American composer

( written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David ) and for the James Bond film Thunderball.

Signed to the Elektra Records label, the band scored a minor hit single in 1966 with their version of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's " My Little Red Book ".

During the 1960s and 1970s, for instance, the show incorporated material by the contemporary sources The Beatles, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, The Everly Brothers and Paul Williams and so on, all redone in a format that was digestible to older viewers.

*" Pacific Coast Highway ", a song by Burt Bacharach from Make It Easy on Yourself

The film received two Academy Award nominations, for Best Original Screenplay ( Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner, Sam Peckinpah ) and Best Original Music Score ( Jerry Fielding ) At the 42nd Academy Awards ceremony, both awards went to crew members of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( screen writer William Goldman and composer Burt Bacharach ).

* Tribute to Burt Bacharach and Jim Webb ( 1972 )

The group also covered music by well known songwriters such as the song " One Less Bell to Answer ", written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and the songs and music of Jimmy Webb, who penned their hit " Up, Up and Away ", including an entire recording of Webb songs called The Magic Garden.

Milhaud's former students also include popular songwriter Burt Bacharach.

* Burt Bacharach

His songs have been recorded by Al Green, Aaron Neville, Burt Bacharach, Bonnie Raitt, Chicago, Wynonna Judd and Vanessa Williams, among many others.

The title song, " Alfie ", was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and was a hit for Cilla Black, Cher and Dionne Warwick.

It was also nominated for several Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Michael Caine ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Vivien Merchant ), Best Song ( Burt Bacharach and Hal David for " Alfie ") ( a UK hit record for Cilla Black, but performed by Millicent Martin in the original UK release and Cher in the American print of the movie ), Best Picture and Best Writing ( Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium ).

The film won four Academy Awards: Best Cinematography ; Best Original Score for a Motion Picture ( not a Musical ); Best Music, Song ( Burt Bacharach and Hal David for " Raindrops Keep Fallin ' on My Head "); and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced.

*" Toledo ", a song by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach for the 1998 Painted from Memory album

Periodic solo releases by Cher continued during this period, including major successes with " Bang Bang ( My Baby Shot Me Down )", and Burt Bacharach & Hal David's theme from " Alfie " ( as heard in the motion picture Alfie, as well as a single release ), both in 1966.

Stephan Davet of French newspaper Le Monde claimed to see musical influences as diverse as The Velvet Underground, Burt Bacharach, and Françoise Hardy on the album.

Said Joshua Klein in The Washington Post, " Years before everyone else caught on, Stereolab was referencing the 1970s German bands Can and Neu !, the Mexican lounge music master Esquivel and the decidedly unhip Burt Bacharach.

* Burt Bacharach, musician

Dietrich employed Burt Bacharach as her musical arranger starting in the mid-1950s ; together they refined her nightclub act into a more ambitious theatrical one-woman show with an expanded repertoire.

The collection includes: over 3, 000 textile items from the 1920s through the 1990s, including film and stage costumes as well as over a thousand items from Dietrich's personal wardrobe ; 15, 000 photographs, by Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst, George Hurrell, Lord Snowdon and Edward Steichen ; 300, 000 pages of documents, including correspondence with Burt Bacharach, Yul Brynner, Maurice Chevalier, Noël Coward, Jean Gabin, Ernest Hemingway, Karl Lagerfeld, Nancy and Ronald Reagan, Erich Maria Remarque, Josef von Sternberg, Orson Welles, and Billy Wilder ; as well as other items like film posters and sound recordings.

There are cameos by Will Ferrell, Mimi Rogers, Carrie Fisher, Tom Arnold, Rob Lowe, Christian Slater, Cheri Oteri, Neil Mullarkey, and Burt Bacharach, and an uncredited cameo by MADtv star Michael McDonald, among many others.

The film was adapted by Williams and Hal Kanter and directed by Daniel Mann, starring Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan and Jo Van Fleet.

In hopes to branch out and sing ballads, the group had decided on cutting the Burt Bacharach and Hal David song, " Make It Easy on Yourself ", until being told that someone else had released it as a single.

While her singles were mostly kept in the then-current sounds of the day such as Rock And Roll, novelty songs, the Twist, torch ballads, or the Girl Group Sound created by Brill Building alumni Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry, Francis ' albums represented her in a variety of styles, ranging in everything from R & B, vocal jazz and country to Broadway standards, children's music, waltzes, spiritual music, Schlager music, Traditionals from various ethnic groups represented in the US and select songs from popular songwriters of the day, such as Burt Bacharach & Hal David, or Les Reed.

Having been in a partnership with songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Warwick ranks among the 40 biggest hit makers of the entire rock era ( 1955 – 2012 ), based on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Charts.

While she was performing background on The Drifters's recording of " Mexican Divorce ," Warwick's voice and star presence were noticed by the song's composer, Burt Bacharach, a Brill Building songwriter who was writing songs with many other songwriters, including lyricist Hal David.

The song was titled " Don't Make Me Over ", the title ( according to the A & E Biography of Dionne Warwick ) supplied by Warwick herself, when she snapped the phrase at producers Burt Bacharach and Hal David in anger.

It was not written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, it was the " B " side of her " I Say a Little Prayer " single, and it was a song that she almost didn't record.

In 1972, Burt Bacharach and Hal David scored and wrote the tunes for the motion picture Lost Horizon.

Featured on the album was " Sunny Weather Lover ", which was the first song that Burt Bacharach and Hal David had written together for Warwick since 1972.

* 1996 – Burt Bacharach & Hal David

The 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid featured Thomas performing the Burt Bacharach / Hal David song " Raindrops Keep Fallin ' on My Head ", which won the Academy Award for best original song that year, became the number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1970.

In January 1961, their second ( and final ) Roulette release was " Three Friends " ( written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David ), backed with " I ’ m Not Your Fool Anymore ".

In 1969, she released Touch ' Em with Love, her most critically acclaimed album, which gave her a number-one hit in the UK with " I'll Never Fall In Love Again " written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.

The show also drew many well-known or then up-and-coming actors and actresses for single guest starring roles, such as Don Ameche, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Ken Berry, Sonny Bono, Eddie Bracken, Joseph Campanella, Virginia Capers, Rosalind Cash, George Clooney, Polly Holliday, Robert Culp, Ruby Dee, the Del Rubio triplets, Jeane Dixon, Anne Francis, Johnny Gilbert, Jack Gilford, Alice Ghostley, Peter Graves, Merv Griffin, George Grizzard, Gary Grubbs, Bob Hope, Julio Iglesias, Freddie Jackson, Tony Jay, Billy Jayne, Gordon Jump, Paula Kelly, Alan King, David Leisure, Jenny Lewis, Hal Linden, Mark Linn-Baker, Mario Lopez, Edie McClurg, Marian Mercer, Martin Mull, Leslie Nielsen, Jerry Orbach, Leland Orser, Tony Plana, Peggy Pope, Joe Regalbuto, Burt Reynolds, Debbie Reynolds, Donnelly Rhodes, Richard Riehle, Alex Rocco, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Harry Shearer, McLean Stevenson, Inga Swenson, Jeffrey Tambor, Meshach Taylor, Jay Thomas, Alex Trebek, Dick Van Dyke, Tom Villard, Lyle Waggoner, David Wayne and Fred Willard.

** Written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David

Dusty Springfield would both feature and epitomize this element on her Philips recording of " The Look of Love ", a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and one of the most respected American pop interpretations of the bossa nova.

In addition to the hit title track it contained a version of the Burt Bacharach / Hal David song " A House Is Not a Home ".