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Toronto-based musician Marker Starling returns to the podcast for an extensive conversation about the life and career of Burt Bacharach, one of the greatest American musicians. His songbook with lyricist Hal David is a monumental catalogue of pop music, and their longtime partnership with singer Dionne Warwick produced dozens of standards, many written specifically for her voice.

We discuss the highs and lows of their work together: smashing the colour barrier between pop and r&b, their innovative song structures, their chart hits and deep cuts, and the disastrous movie musical Lost Horizon (1973) that led to the end of their partnership.

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Bacharach rehearsing with Dionne Warwick on the song "Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets" for a 1970 TV special

Bacharach working with a children's choir from the Lost Horizon TV Special

Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson - commercial for Martini & Rossi

"Walk On By" - Dionne Warwick performing live on Belgian television, 1964

"Hasbrooke Heights" - Burt Bacharach

"Make It Easy on Yourself" - Dionne Warwick, from Frost Weekly, 1973

"Close To You" by Hilton Als, for The New Yorker, December 8, 2013:

Veda Hille - Plants (2001)

Nicholas Krgovich - Plants (2021)