Composer of the Soundtrack of the '60s
While looking for interesting and different renditions of songs from the 50s and 60s, I kept coming across one individual in particular. This composer wrote hit songs for every year of the 60s and beyond. Altogether he has written 73 top 40 hits. He is a 6-time Grammy Award winner and a 2-time Academy Award winner. If there is one single individual who can be called the composer of the soundtrack of the 60s, it would be Burt Bacharach. So, here is a decade's worth of hits compliments of Mr. Burt Bacharach.
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1957 The Story of My Life — Marty Robbins
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Burt Bacharach's first commercial song and it went to #15 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.
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1958 Magic Moments — Perry Como#4 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.
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1961 Baby It's You — The Shirelles#8
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1962 Any Day Now — Chuck Jackson
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That's the man himself, Burt Bacharach, on the organ. |
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1962 (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valence — Gene Pitney#4
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1962 Only Love Can Break a Heart — Gene Pitney#2
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1962 Don't Make Me Over — Dionne Warwick
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This was Marie Dionne Warrick's first release but her last name on the label of the 45 was misspelled. She decided to go with the new spelling. |
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1962 Make It Easy on Yourself — Dionne Warwick#16
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Jefferson High, Class of 1968, Alexandria, Minnesota