| Product Summary | | Label: Naxos of America | | UPC: 00099923507024 | | Release Date: 6/24/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 207988109 | | Item#: M45HMH | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Walk on By ~ Steve Tyrell |  | | 2. Look of Love, The ~ Steve Tyrell | | | 3. This Guy's In Love - (featuring Herb Alpert) ~ Steve Tyrell | | | 4. One Less Bell To Answer - (featuring Dionne Warwick/James Taylor/Martina McBride/Rod Stewart/Burt Bacharach) ~ Steve Tyrell | | | 5. What The World Needs Now ~ Steve Tyrell | | | 6. Reach Out For Me ~ Steve Tyrell | | | 7. I Say A Little Prayer For You - (featuring Patti Austin) ~ Steve Tyrell | | | 8. I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - (featuring Burt Bacharach) ~ Steve Tyrell | | | 9. Always Something There to Remind Me ~ Steve Tyrell | | | 10. Don't Make Me Over - (featuring Patti Austin) ~ Steve Tyrell | | | 11. Close to You ~ Steve Tyrell | | | 12. House Is Not a Home, A ~ Steve Tyrell | | | 13. Alfie ~ Steve Tyrell | | | 14. Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head ~ Steve Tyrell | |
| | Every recording artist has one album that they are destined to make - an album so singularly in-sync with their sensibility and history that its making smacks of pure destiny. For Steve Tyrell - a distinguished Grammy winner, Emmy nominated purveyor of pop standards and a behind the scenes impresario - that album is Back to Bacharach, a deeply personal collection of songs from the piano of Burt Bacharach and the pen of Hal David. The song that gets the Technicolor treatment on Back to Bacharach is Bacharach and David's anthem, "What the World Needs Now is Love," a song Steve believes is "more relevant now than it ever was." Bacharach's piano glues together the whole affair which features superstars Rod Stewart, James Taylor, Martina McBride and Dionne Warwick along with Tyrell. The all-star recording is for a worthy cause - all proceeds will go to the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance (NCCRA) in remembrance of Steve's wife Stephanie (who passed away from Colon Cancer five years ago) and Jay Monahan, the late husband of television journalist Katie Couric. Other classics featured on the Back to Bacharach album are: "Walk on By," The Look of Love," Close to You," "A House is Not a Home," "This Guy's in Love," "One Less Bell to Answer," "Reach Out for Me," "I Say a Little Prayer for You," "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself," "Always Something There to Remind Me," "Don't Make Me Over" and the Oscar winning "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head." "This album is different from any I'll ever do," states Tyrell, who in the last decade has been at the forefront of a renaissance in recordings from the Great American Songbook via his previous six projects. "The music of my friends Burt and Hal has been a lifelong collaboration. Their songs are my songs. It's a very unique situation." "I like to say Back to Bacharach was 40 years in the making," Steve concludes. "There is no other music like this in my life. And I am honored to share it with the world...my way." Track Listing
1. Walk on By
2. The Look of Love
3. This Guy's in Love (feat. Herb Alpert and Burt Bacharach)
4. What the World Needs Now (feat. Burt Bacharach, Martina Mcbride, Rod Stewart, James Taylor and Dionne Warwick)
5. Reach Out for Me
6. One Less Bell to Answer
7. I Say a Little Prayer for You (feat. Patti Austin)
8. I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself (feat. Burt Bacharach)
9. Always Something There to Remind Me
10. Don't Make Me Over (feat. Patti Austin)
11. Close to You
12. A House is Not a Home
13. Alfie
14. Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Darryl Tookes, Lauren Tyrell, Fred White , LaTanya Hall, Lynne Fiddmont (vocals, background vocals); Springhurst Elementary School Harmonaires (vocals); Bob Mann (guitar, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, synthesizer); Abe Appleman, Barry Finclair, Karl Kawahara, Anne Leathers, Shinwon Kim, Richard Sortomme, Carol Webb, Jonathan Dinklage (violin); Karen Ritscher, Vince Lionti (viola); Semyon Fridman, Roger Shell (cello); Warren Luening (trumpet, flugelhorn); Herb Alpert (trumpet); Lew Soloff, Matt Fronke (flugelhorn); Dave Bargeron (baritone horn); Burt Bacharach (piano, keyboards); Kenny Ascher, Quinn Johnson (piano); Guy Moon (organ); Jon Allen (keyboards); Allan Schwartzberg (drums, percussion); John Guerin (drums); Dorian Holley, Patti Austin (background vocals). | | Audio Mixer: Bill Schnee. | | Liner Note Author: Steve Tyrell. | | Photographer: Tina Tyrell. | | Arrangers: Steve Tyrell; Bob Mann; Burt Bacharach. | | Steve Tyrell recalls the classic American vocalists such as Nat "King" Cole and Frank Sinatra. Tyrell doesn't sound like either, but he does shares their eclectic, all-inclusive musical approach. Tyrell is also influenced by jazz and classic/old-school R&B, and he's contributed music to movies (FATHER OF THE BRIDE, MYSTIC PIZZA). In addition, he worked for Scepter Records at the time of the classic Burt Bacharach/Hal David/Dionne Warwick recordings. So BACK TO BACHARACH, a tribute to the great '60s pop composer, is very much a return to Tyrell's roots. Tyrell's vocal style here draws upon jazz, blues, and pop, down-to-earth and sophisticated all at once, and very much in the Bacharach mode. | | Nearly every jazz or pop singer who grew up between the '60s and the '80s has a Burt Bacharach songbook in them waiting to get out. If Steve Tyrell's Bacharach album was positively screaming to be released, it's understandable; few artists of his caliber were looking on while Bacharach, Hal David, and others created nearly all of the classics that fill the names Bacharach/David with such panache. (While still a teenager, Tyrell landed a job with Scepter Records, and witnessed much of Bacharach's best work.) The genesis of Tyrell's Back to Bacharach came during 2002, when he and Burt Bacharach himself began recording and planning for it, but the illness of his wife forced a temporary postponement. Two Bacharach tracks were included on his 2003 album, This Guy's in Love, and Tyrell later returned to complete the project, including five tracks with arrangements or piano (or both) by Bacharach. Classy and polished to a degree that Bacharach himself would appreciate, Back to Bacharach works well, the smooth arrangements and occasional synth work providing a fine complement to Tyrell's rough-hewn vocals. Granted, no one's going to confuse him with Dionne Warwick in her prime. He has to strain for some notes, but like his friend and fellow Bacharach associate Herb Alpert, he's able to turn those inconsistencies into strengths in the interpretations of each song. Aside from Bacharach, friends appear on several tracks, including the signature trumpet and hum vocal of Alpert on "This Guy's in Love with You" and Patti Austin as a duet partner on two songs, "I Say a Little Prayer for You" and "Don't Make Me Over." Best of all is "What the World Needs Now Is Love," featuring a parade of vocalists -- Dionne Warwick, Rod Stewart, James Taylor, Martina McBride -- with more combined star power than the performing world has seen since "That's What Friends Are For." ~ John Bush |
Producer: Jon Allen; Steve Tyrell; Bob Mann; Burt Bacharach |
Engineer: Jon Allen; Darwin Best; Dave O'Donnell; Doug Epstein; Jon Cobert; Bill Schnee |
Musical Guests | | Herb Alpert | | Dionne Warwick | | James Taylor | | Martina McBride | | Rod Stewart | | Burt Bacharach | | Patti Austin |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 06/24/2008 | | Original Release Date : 2008 | | Catalog ID : 5070 | | Label : Koch Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00099923507024 |
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| | Bio | | | Steve Tyrell For music lovers the world over, songs like "The Look of Love," "Walk on By," "Close to You," "A House is Not a Home" and "Alfie" are indelibly bound to our DNA, haunting strands of melodious memories that bring forth a flood of emotions and associations. For Steve Tyrell, they represent milestones in a distinguished career and the joys and pains of his own personal life. It is because of his close proximity to the songs and their creators that Steve is able to bring something unique to his versions while being fortunate enough to include Dionne Warwick, Herb Alpert and 2008 Grammy Award winner Patti Austin well as Bacharach himself, Rod Stewart, James Taylor, and Martina McBride on the CD to relive the golden moments. "This album is different from any I'll ever do," states Tyrell, who in the last decade has been at the forefront of a renaissance in recordings from the Great American Songbook via his previous six projects and the Grammy winning albums he produced with Rod Stewart. "The music of my friends Burt and Hal has been a lifelong collaboration. Their songs are my songs. It's a very unique situation." Indeed. It was as a bright and ambitious 19 year-old that Steve journeyed from Houston, Texas to New York City to work at pop and soul music giant Scepter Records. By that time, he'd already been a recording artist at 15, scoring local R&B hits on the Philips and London labels. When Steve arrived at Scepter Records and its adjacent Baby Monica Publishing Company, he immediately found himself surrounded by swiftly developing super teams such as Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson and Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil. But it was with a pair of outside contractors - songwriting producers Burt Bacharach & Hal David - that Steve would forge his most personal alliance.
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