Musical Questions And Answers, #1 (Mylot Exclusive #1923)

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Playboy: What do you get when you fall in love? Burt Bacharach: All the dynamite elements associated with love---you can't sleep, you can't eat, you can't write at the piano, you can't go to a movie, you don't know how to get through a night without that person. The sad thing is that we're no longer equipped to have love the way we thought it was. -------Burt Bacharach, in "Playboy Magazine", October, 1979 Spoiler Alert, Radio Rangers. This is the first of two (Or more) posts based on an item found in the October, 1979 issue of "Playboy," entitled "We asked Theodore Fischer to turn the tables on Burt Bacharach to record his own answers to some of his musical questions. (Page 24)." The second one will cover "Do You Know The Way To San Jose?" If time and enthusiasm permit, #3 will be, "What's New, Pussycat?" We could even do a #4, "What's It All About?" Getting back to our raison d’être du jour, isn't it refreshing that Burt said nothing about germs, pneumonia, or pins popping bubbles? It's such a big shift that it would seem Sus if Burt had written the lyrics. But he didn't. He only wrote the music. Hal David did the words. So, does Burt's answer give a glimpse into a parallel Universe where Burt did write the words? And love was more than a top charting disease vector? Perhaps. With that in mind, let's go to Hard Monday, December 15, 1969, to see what the Cosmic Universal Anthem Song Of The Month Club Anthem Song is for today Is. Fun Bonus Trivia: Burt was was hospitalized with pneumonia when David Merrick asked him and Hal to write another song for "Promises, Promises." Something the audience could whistle on their way out of the theater. Hal wrote the lyrics, using the pneumonia line as a nod to current events in his life. Burt wrote the music after he was released from the hospital. ************* I'll never fall in love again - Dionne Warwick