Also credited on2 works
Promises, Promises
The Look of Love
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature8 passages
- In 1967 the producer David Merrick, who was certainly aware of trends and the way to capitalize on them, engaged Hal David and Burt Bacharach, the last exemplars of non-rock-oriented pop music, to write a Broadway score, Promises, Promises, based on Billy Wilder's 1960 Oscar-winning film The Apartment. His instincts were correct. The show…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- Most of Bacharach’s pop songs had lyrics by Hal David, often thought of as a good and competent professional. He didn’t, however, possess the genuine genius that Bacharach had. The composer had a distinct voice; the lyricist didn’t. Bacharach was even able to do the seemingly impossible with a song he wrote between Promises, Promises rehe…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- Two of the most successful pop song writers of the mid-Sixties, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, made a worthy — and so far only — contribution to the Broadway theatre with their score for Promises, Promises. Adapted from the 1960 movie, The Apartment, the musical followed such other recent offerings as How to Succeed in Business Without Rea…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- Chapter Twenty-Nine: This chapter is based on interviews with Keith Baxter, Judy Bryant, Alvin Cooperman, Hal David, Pete Feller, Garson Kanin, Leonard Gershe, Fred Golden, John Handy, Biff Liff, Helen Nickerson, Linda Otto, Gerald Schoenfeld, Irene Selznick, Willard Shaffar, Joel Thurm, Jonathan Tunick and Charles Willard, as well as con…ebooks/Kissel, Howard/David Merrick - The Abominable Showman_ The Unauthorized Biography (Applause Books) - Howard Kissel.txt
- The innovative score for Promises, Promises was composed by Burt Bacharach, who was then at the height of his fame as a pop songwriter. Hal David wrote the lyrics, and neither he nor Bacharach had ever worked on Broadway before. They brought in arrangers from the recording industry, as well as the high-powered music producer-engineer Phil…ebooks/McKechnie, Donna/Time Steps - Donna McKechnie & Greg Lawrence.txt
- Not everyone had such a positive experience with the tryouts, reminding me of the old joke that if Hitler were still alive, the best punishment for him would be to put him in a musical that’s having trouble out of town. Burt Bacharach had such a difficult time that he vowed never to do another Broadway show (and he didn’t). Much of the ti…ebooks/McKechnie, Donna/Time Steps - Donna McKechnie & Greg Lawrence.txt
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