Watch Elvis Costello Pay Tribute to Burt Bacharach at Opening Night of 10-Night NYC Stand
died, and, as expected, paid tribute to the music legend who was his friend and collaborator since the mid-1990s. He covered three songs that Bacharach had hits with as a songwriter in the 1960s, with the promise of getting to some of the many songs they wrote together later in the run.
The three songs Costello played in memory of Bacharach were “Baby, It’s You,” which was memorably recorded by both the Shirelles and the Beatles, “Anyone Who Had a Heart,” one of the signature songs by Bacharach and lyricist Hal David that Dionne Warwick had a hit with, and “Please Stay,” a number recorded by the Drifters in 1961 that was one of the late songwriter’s earliest hits.
The theme of the Thursday performance was songs written by Costello prior to releasing his debut album, “My Aim is True,” in 1977. He stretched that to include a few songs others had written prior to that date, including a couple by Van Morrison. But inevitably it allowed for the trio of Bacharach classics, two of which Costello had recorded before.
“I read an extraordinary and, I have to say, not tremendously insightful article in the New York Times… There’s a long list of things that the writer didn’t know or understand,” Costello said, citing “the strange claim that Burt Bacharach, the man who wrote the music for ‘What the World Needs Now Is Love,’ was apolitical.” He waited for the audience’s quiet laugh. “I can’t help you with that one.”
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