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...other time since his heyday in the 1960s and early '70s, when, working against the rock grain, he was responsible for dozens of Top 40 hits, including surprisingly nuanced adult-oriented love songs for performers like Gene Pitney, Dusty Springfield and, his greatest vessel of all, Dionne Warwick. The current renaissance--Bacharach's last big hit was 1985's That's What Friends Are For--began a few years ago, with the explosion of interest in so-called lounge music, especially in Britain, where a two-disc set of Bacharach tunes became a surprise best seller. The U.S. will soon...
ROBERT WEYGAND (D) District 2 (West--Western Providence; Warwick...
BORN: Feb. 18, 1951, Providence EDUCATION: Dartmouth College, B.A., 1973; U of Vermont, M.D., 1977; George Washington U, J.D., 1986 FAMILY: Wife, Anne Spalding-Wild RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: Army, 1977-82 OCCUPATION: Physician; college instructor POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 1800 Post Road, Warwick...
Except for a Dixie Cup-esque cut (I Do), the Grace of My Heart songs aren't primarily parodies; they're just good music. The pearl is God Give Me Strength, by Bacharach and Elvis Costello. Broody and complex, it suggests a tune Bacharach might have given Dionne Warwick to sing in an uptown nightclub at 3 a.m. "Burt consciously breaks rules with bar lines," says Costello. "He's breaking the meter, but it still feels natural. And he expresses feeling so much better than the trumped-up romantic ballads of today, where the emotions seem to have come...
...Accepting the astronomically remote assumption that a civilization parallel to ours, with the same technology, currently exists and is a mere 1,000 light-years from us, our signals will reach them around A.D. 3000. Will there be anyone left here on Earth to receive the reply? ROBERT REDDEN Warwick, Rhode Island...