Tribute to Burt Bacharach and Hal David

Burt Bacharach , born May 12, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an award-winning American pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from 1962-69, co-written with Hal David and Bacharach studied music at McGill University and the Mannes School of Music. In the '50s and early '60s he was the pianist, arranger and bandleader for Marlene Dietrich with whom he toured. In 1959 while still a relatively unknown songwriter, he got a big break when his song Heavenly recorded by Johnny Mathis and title of the album became a gold record. Later the same year another Bacharach song Faithfully also achieved gold record status with Mathis. The two artists have remained lifelong friends.
In the early sixties Bacharach paired with lyricist Hal David (and occasionally others) and wrote a wealth of popular songs throughout the '60s and '70s, many of which still enjoy popularity today. He and David wrote songs specially for Dionne Warwick who has charted some 21 Bacharach wriiten songs.sung mostly by Dionne Warwick