Hal David, the stylish lyricist who teamed with Burt Bacharach on dozens of timeless songs for movies, television and a variety of recording artists in the 1960s and beyond, has died. He was 91. You might be saying to yourself that you never have heard of this guy. He wrote 773 songs on his own. Yeah. That is a whole lot. He wrote from the late 1950's to as recently as this year. With Burt Bacharach they wrote over 2000 songs.
People of a certain age would have heard of him :)
ReplyDeleteMy mom loves all the Daivd and Bacharach music .shoo how old is Burt ?
ReplyDeleteI'm 32 and he's probably my favorite lyricist of all time. Alfie, Anyone Who Had A Heart, Don't Make Me Over, Walk on By, Always Something There to Remind Me....today we get lyrics like "baby, baby, baby, oh, baby, baby, baby, oh" Not exactly the same.
ReplyDeleteYou don't have to be "of a certain age" to be familiar with "Alfie", "The Look of Love", "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head", and 770 others.
ReplyDelete"What the World Neeeds Now, Is love sweet love.."
ReplyDeleteTheir music is timeless. Dionne Warwick did a classic album that they wrote.
ReplyDelete@Syko,'Ageism' is apparently the new -ism here at Cdan (example: Clint).
Look of Love- Dusty Sprinfield version..beautiful.
RIP.
@Sherry, AMEN.
ReplyDeleteSuch amazing classic music. There is nothing NOTHING like a really well written well played song. I love 60-70s music because it was so much more deep and had a meaning, feeling, emotion.
ReplyDeleteRest in Peace you sweet sweet man.
@DivineMissP - you are in my spiritual 'will' for those choices !
ReplyDeleteI think we're in good hands with the songwriters of today!(feat. Good thing the world is ending this year!)
ReplyDeleteThis is so sad. I love his music.
ReplyDeleteRIP, Mr. David, may heaven be filled with the music of your life.
Anyone who had a heart has heard of Hal David. And there's always something there to remind me.
ReplyDeleteHe and Burt Bacharach won the Gershwin Prize for popular song from the Library of Congress earlier this year.
@MISCH, Burt Bacharach is 84. Who knew?
I feel sad whenever anyone who makes beauty dies. RIP, Hal David.
ReplyDeleteLove his and Bacharach's music so much... RIP.
ReplyDeleteI got really weirded out this morning when I heard this, because I thought that Burt Bacharach had just passed a few weeks ago, but then I realized that I was thinking of Marvin Hamlisch. I'm not QUITE of a certain age, but I DO love all that '60s/'70s easy listening-type stuff. They wrote for Dusty, Dionne, the Carpenters...great music.
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