Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Jackie DeShannon - What The World Needs Now Is Love
2. The Carpenters -(They Long To Be)Close To You
3. B.J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
4. Nancy Wilson - Reach Out For Me
5. The Shirelles - Baby, It's You
6. Dionne Warwick - Walk on By
7. Dusty Springfield - The Look of Love
8. Tommy Hunt - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
9. Doris Day - Send Me No Flowers
10. Frankie Avalon - Gotta Get A Girl
11. Jack Jones - Wives and Lovers
12. Cilla Black - Alfie
13. Herb Alpert - This Guy's In Love With You
14. Tom Jones - Promise Her Anything
15. Cliff Richard - It's Wonderful To Be Young (Alternate Take)
16. Gene Vincent - Crazy Times
17. Charlie Gracie - I Looked For You
18. The Five Blobs - The Blob
19. Jackie DeShannon - So Long Johnny
20. Shirley Bassey - A House Is Not A Home
21. Burt Bacharach - Nikki
22. Andy Williams - Don't You Believe It
23. Jimmy Radcliff - (There Goes) The Forgotten Man
24. Billy J Kramer - Trains and Boats and Planes
25. Herb Alpert - Casino Royal
26. Dionne Warwick - Anyone Who Had A Heart
27. Bobbie Gentry - The Windows of the World
28. Nat King Cole - Once In A Blue Moon (Instrumental)

Disc 2:

1. Perry Como - Magic Moments
2. Dionne Warwick - Do You Know The Way To San Jose
3. Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer
4. Dusty Springfield - Wishin' and Hopin'
5. Walker Brothers - Make It Easy on Yourself
6. Sandie Shaw - (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me
7. Burt Bacharach - Don't Go Breaking My Heart
8. Dionne Warwick - I'll Never Fall in Love Again
9. The Drifters - Please Stay
10. Gene McDaniels - Tower of Strength
11. Marty Robbins - The Story of My Life
12. Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat
13. Vi Velasco - That's Not The Answer
14. Dionne Warwick - Don't Make Me Over
15. Chuck Jackson -Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)
16. Gene Pitney - (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance
17. The Drifters - Mexican Divorce
18. Dean Barlow - Third Window From The Right
19. Adam Wade - Rain From The Skies
20. Della Reese - How About
21. Helen Shapiro - Keep Away From Other Girls
22. Trini Lopez - Made in Paris
23. The Merseybeats - It's Love That Really Counts (In the Longrun)
24. Manfred Mann - My Little Red Book
25. The Searchers - This Empty Place
26. Burt Bacharach - Pacific Coast Highway

Disc 3:

1. Dionne & Friends - That's What Friends Are For
2. Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello - God Give Me Strength
3. Will Young - What's In Goodbye
4. Christopher Cross- Arthur's Theme (The Best You Can Do)
5. Neil Diamond - Heartlight
6. Burt Baracharch & Rufus Wainwright - Go Ask Shakespeare
7. Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello - Who Are These People
8. Burt Bacharach - South American Getaway
9. B.J. Thomas - Everybody's Out Of Town
10. Dionne Warwick - Odds and Ends
11. The Hammond Brothers - Thirty Miles of Railway Tracks
12. Irma Thomas - Long After Tonight Is All Over
13. The Drifters - Let The Music Play
14. Dionne Warwick - Paper Mache
15. Keely Smith - One Less Bell To Answer
16. Anita Harris - London Life
17. Richard Chamberlain - Blue Guitar
18. The Drifters - The Land Of Make Believe
19. The Stylistics - You'll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart)
20. Carole Bayer Sager - Just Friends
21. Burt Bacharach - Hasbrook Heights

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1944 in Music
• Released on: 2009-02-02
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: .41 pounds

CD Description
'Magic Moments' is the definitive collection for fans of Burt Bacharach, one of the most iconic and successful names inthe history of music. With a career that has included songwriting credits for seventy US top 40 hits - many of which with Dionne Warwick during the 1960s - Bacharach has left an incredible mark on the industry. Including Jackie De Shannon's 'What the World Needs Now Is Love', Dionne Warwick's classic 'Walk On By' and Aretha Franklin's 'I Say A Little Prayer'.

Customer Reviews

PERFECT!
I bought the album in Australia where it is already available, but obviously they seem to be putting it out over here for Valentine's Day. In any case, it is simply incredible!!! It plays very well as for once somebody at the record company thought about the running order of an album; and apart from 1 or 2 songs doesn't have any dodgy tracks on it whatsoever.

The original of CLOSE TO YOU by The Carpenters or Jackie de Shannon's WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS LOVE (as sung by Brucie on the Strictly Come Dancing final before Christmas ;-) ) are just 2 of my all time greatest tracks. It's also nice to find some rare tracks by Cliff Richard, Andy Williams, Will Young and Keely Smith.

The booklet contains linernotes by Elvis Costello which are very honest and touching, but obviously just scratch the surface on what an amazing songwriter Burt Bacharach really is.

Everybody that saw him live at the BBC Electric Proms in October last year, knows that he is a very humble person considering how many records he must have sold in his 50+ year career.

I say, go and get it, if it's for yourself or as a gift, it won't disappoint!!

Not Perfect and definitely not definitive
With these collections it's just as much about what's been left off as what's been included, so it's congratulations to Rhino for their 'Definitive' Bacharach collection of 3 CDs and with no less than 75 tracks with no - wait for it - Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa (!!!), Message to Michael/Martha, Are You There (With Another Girl), Promises, Promises and the world-wide No.1, On My Own. Songs like Crazy Times, Gotta Get a Girl, How About, Thirty Miles of Railroad Track and Once in a Blue Moon are all fine when found on a Bacharach 'Rarities' collection, but not on a compilation entitled 'Definitive'. And why include decidedly inferior versions of some of the most popular songs, like Billy J Kramer's Trains and Boats and Planes, Nancy Wilson's Reach Out for Me and Shirley Bassey's A House is not a Home? Utterly mind boggling.

Magic Moments - Burt Bacharach
Majority of track selections are great but, these tend to be the ones we already know.
Don't understand why inferior covers are used instead of the originals in a number of cases and why "modern" artists,such as Will Young,are included unless it is to try and entice a new market?