Burt Bacharach and Hal David - Gold Classics: P/V/G

by Burt Bacharach (Composer), Hal David

Seventeen great songs by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, arranged for piano/vocal and guitar, with full lyrics. Songs Do You Know The Way To San Jose, I Say A Little Prayer, Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head, Walk On By, and many more solid gold standards.

64 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2005

About the author

Burt Freeman Bacharach was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist, singer, six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner. Most of Bacharach’s hits were written specifically for and performed by Dionne Warwick. Bacharach also wrote hits for Gene Pitney, Dusty Springfield, Tom Jones, Herb Alpert, B.J. Thomas, and The Carpenters.

Bacharach had been married four times. Bacharach married his last wife, Jane Hansen, in 1993; they had two children, a son, Oliver, and a daughter, Raleigh. He also had an adopted son, Cristopher with ex-wife and lyricist Carole Bayer Sager. He lived in Brookville, New York.