Burt Bacharach — Composer of the Soundtrack of the '60s
1981 Best That You Can Do — Christopher Cross
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#1
Academy Award winner |
1986 That's What Friends Are For — Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, and Elton John
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#1 song
of 1986 Grammy winner |
1986 On My Own — Patti LaBelle ft. Michael McDonald
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#1
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1987 Love Power — Dionne Warwick
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#12
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So, the Beatles came and the Beatles went but Burt Bacharach just kept writing hits. In 2012, he was awarded the Gershwin Prize, this countries' greatest honor for popular music.
Jefferson High, Class of 1968, Alexandria, Minnesota