Lyricist Hal David passed away this week at the age of 91. If you've never heard of Hal David, perhaps you've heard of his most frequent and famous collaborator, composer Burt Bacharach. If this is STILL not ringing a bell for you, then be assured that you have heard their work for the music of Bacharach and David provided a soundtrack to America in the 1960's and beyond as surely as did Lennon and McCartney, Paul Simon, Brian Wilson, or Bob Dylan.
Bacharach and David won an Oscar for the song "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head", but their work was best interpreted by the great Dionne Warwick. Trying to pick "the best" or a "favorite" Bacharach/David/Warwick song is almost an impossible task for there were so many of them. Allow me to leave you with one of my favorites:
RIP Hal David.
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