{"id":1841203,"date":"2023-02-09T13:04:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T18:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1841203"},"modified":"2023-02-09T13:12:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T18:12:24","slug":"legendary-songwriter-burt-bacharach-dead-at-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legendary-songwriter-burt-bacharach-dead-at-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Songwriter Burt Bacharach Dead At 94"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flegendary-songwriter-burt-bacharach-dead-at-94%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1841203&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Legendary a URL=&#8221;https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/music&#8221;>songwriter<\/a> Burt Bacharach, composer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/death\">died<\/a> Multiple reports indicate that Wednesday was at the age of 1994.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Classic tunes are the result of the music industry legend, including \u201cI Say A Little Prayer,\u201d \u201cWalk On By,\u201d  \u201cWhat The World Needs Now Is Love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was also responsible for the composition of the themes songs for many films that are still iconic, such as \u201cWhat\u2019s New, Pussycat?\u201d \u201cAlfie,\u201d  \u201cArthur,\u201d\u00a0Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-64587070\">BBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course his career, the songwriter achieved 73 Top 40 Hits in the United States. Bacharach is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/music\/rockandpopfeatures\/10084664\/Burt-Bacharach-interview-what-was-it-all-about.html\">six-time<\/a> Grammy Award winner and three time Academy Award winner, his songs have been recorded more than 1000 times.<\/p>\n<p>He collaborated extensively with some of the most prominent musicians in the business, including DionneWarwick, Frank Sinatra. The Beatles, Barbra STreisand. Tom Jones. Aretha Franklin.<\/p>\n<p>Bacharach\u2019s musical career began after high school when he began studying music theory and composition. Bacharach served in the military and played the piano at the soldiers&#8217; bases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Next, he became Marlene Dietrich\u2019s personal conductor, which he described as a stroke of luck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t chasing it. I didn\u2019t know what I wanted to do. I was caught in the drift of things,\u201d Bacharach said. \u201cI\u2019m not a person who will walk over people, kill people, step on people to get to the next place where they want to be. Things just happened for me. I was very fortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The music legend was married four more times: to Paula Stewart, in 1953, to Angie Dickinson, in 1958, to Carole Bayer Sager, in 1982, and finally to Jane Hansen, in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Hansen, their children Oliver and Raleigh, as well as his son Cristopher (who he shares with Sager) are his survivors. Bacharach\u2019s daughter Nikki died by suicide in 2007 when she was 40.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary songwriter and composer Burt Bacharach died Wednesday at the age of 94, according to multiple reports.\u00a0 The music industry legend is responsible for classic tunes including \u201cI Say A Little Prayer,\u201d \u201cWalk On By,\u201d and \u201cWhat The World Needs Now Is Love.\u201d He also helped compose the theme songs for several iconic films, including &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1841206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[18172,18173,3642,11846,11788],"class_list":["post-1841203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-bacharach","tag-burt","tag-dead","tag-legendary","tag-songwriter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1841206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}