Word: bacharachs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MARRIED. Burt Bacharach, 53, master songwriter (Alfie, Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head); and Carole Bayer Sager, 36, singer-lyricist (They're Playing Our Song); he for the third time, she for the second; in Beverly Hills, Calif. They collaborated on this year's Oscar-winning song, Arthur's Theme...
...Nieve puts some jolly tinkling all over the album, but I can't help feeling that he's a bit of a middlebrow even as he's sending up middlebrow music. That's okay; I'm a bit of a middlebrow myself, and Elvis loves Cole Porter and Burt Bacharach. So "You'll Never Be a Man" comes out a dandy pop tune, Elvis blithely propositioning a poor woman who's "under the table with a chemical snake." (People think they're tough in this world, but they're jellybeans.) "Pretty Words" ("don't mean much anymore/I don't mean...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Angle Dickinson, 49, star of TV (Police Woman) and movies (Dressed to Kill); and Burt Bacharach, 51, composer (Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, What the World Needs Now); after 15 years of marriage and four years of separation, one child, a daughter, Nikki, 14, whose custody Dickinson is requesting; in Los Angeles...
...Cooder, Paradise and Lunch (Reprise/Warner Bros., 1974). The guitarist-singer's loveliest diversion of various musical undercurrents (from gospel to Burt Bacharach to R. and B.) into a free-flowing mainstream...