Posts Tagged Hal David
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June 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 676
Paul Williams, Classics (1977) For a long time, I’m sure, it wasn’t cool to say you liked Paul Williams – but I remember the songs from childhood. And then I found out he not only wrote Rainbow Connection but that first Muppet Movie film soundtrack which is one of the totems of my lifetime. And […]Archive
December 1, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 784
Burt Bacharach & Hal David, Lost Horizon [OST] (1973) By all accounts it’s a fucking atrocious film – but I’m loving this soundtrack album, found it recently…lured in by the cover…and then when I saw what it actually was I remembered that in his autobiography there was some concern by Burt Bacharach about this album […]Archive
August 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Cilla Black
Cilla Black has died of natural causes at her Spanish villa. She was 72. She rose to fame as a pop singer in the 1960s – one of a handful of British female singers (think Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, Lulu, Helen Shapiro) who performed cover versions, who created signature hits from working with a talented […]Archive
September 13, 2013 by Simon Sweetman