Hal David RIP

RobbieT

Multi award winning lyricist Hal David, best known for his collaboration with composer Burt Bacharach has died at the age of 91.
Bacarach and David are up there with Leiber & Stoller, Lennon & McCartney, Jagger & Richards and John & Taupin as the major partnerships of 20thC popular music.

You'd be surprised at how many songs you know that these two wrote together.

buckshee

R.I.P . Co writer of some of the greatest songs ever written

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkK04szvPf8&feature=related

BlackForestReds

RIP Hal David

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO073fekFfA

BIG_ROB

RIP Hal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sb8l5CKh1M

3blokes

My mum had that Herb Albert record. I used to think it was ok but of course if your mum likes it, it can't really be cool.
How little did I know.

Henry Irving

True genius who made all those songs special.

Burt knocked out some good tunes but Hal's work is poetry. Read the lyrics to "walk on by" or many of his other songs without music and they still stand up.

He told a story in four minutes.

A great loss.

Lincsaddick

Henry Irving said:

True genius who made all those songs special.

Burt knocked out some good tunes but Hal's work is poetry. Read the lyrics to "walk on by" or many of his other songs without music and they still stand up.

He told a story in four minutes.

A great loss.

I agree with every word. Like Johnny Mercer and Cole Porter, Jim Webb, Bob Dylan and Hank Williams, an American poetic genius RIP

soapy_jones

Poet - RIP

sillav nitram

their up there but so are the lesser known

holland & stephens

Six-a-bag-of-nuts

Henry Irving said:

Burt knocked out some good tunes but Hal's work is poetry.

LOL
Sorry Henry; I don't wish to make light of the passing of a rare talent, but does Burt have to die too to merit a less glib dismissal
The beauty of B & D is in the partnership IMO

gilbertfilbert

Was he related to Larry David?

Brendan_O_Connell

RIP

davy macaddick

RIP Musical legend

Richard J

RIP

He also wrote 'To all the girls I've loved before ' with the underated singer songwriter Albert Hammond.