Prolific Songwriter of Pop Hits for Stage and Screen

Songwriter and composer Burt Bacharach has passed at 94. This giant of music made a huge splash on stage, screen, and airwaves with a phenomenal series of popular songs, many written with lyricist Hal David.

His songs in the sixties were often sung by top artists like The Fifth Dimension, The Shirelles, Dusty Springfield, and later The Carpenters, Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald, and the titles ranged from Close To You,  One Less Bell to Answer, Any Day Now, Baby It's You, to On My Own to What the World Needs Now. However, his collaboration with singer Dionne Warwick yielded a treasure of hits including Walk on By, I Say a Little Prayer, Do You Know the Way to San Jose, and I'll Never Fall in Love Again. Their hit song This Girl's in Love with You was redone as a #1 hit, This Guy's in Love with You, flipping the gender for Herb Alpert.

He conquered films with his Oscar winning song Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head and score from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. He also wrote songs for What's New Pussycat, Alfie, and the spy spoof Casino Royale's The Look of Love.
He adapted the film The Apartment into Promises Promises for Broadway to acclaim. His song for his daughter Nikki became the theme for The ABC Movie of the Week for years. 

Despite a setback with the film musical bomb, Lost Horizon, he came back co-writing the Oscar winning song from Arthur, and cowrote a worldwide smash of That's What Friends Are For.
The Austin Powers films paid homage and cameos for him. He had an Emmy, three Oscars, and eight Grammy Awards. A true musical legend. I was a huge fan.