Elvis Costello talks about his collaborations with Burt Bacharach, collected on the new box set 'The Songs of Bacharach & Costello.'
An incredibly nuanced sense of music, both harmonically and rhythmically, and such bold choices of melody. I always cite the bridge of “Alfie” as being the most extraordinary. There’s footage of Bill Evans in Finland playing that as if it were a Bach prelude. It’s obviously a very substantial piece of music. It is an instrumental before you add the incredible words that Hal David wrote.
And also I’d written all of the second album, which was more torrid and more informed by real experience than the first album, which inevitably was a work of imagination. So “I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself” … I’d loved it from Dusty’s version. And Dusty was my vocal epitome.
some of the melody to her voice. And that’s acceptable. Nobody that’s covered that song sang exactly what we wrote. So I’m the one that went there. If you don’t like it, don’t listen …There is this false impression of Burt as sort of laid-back in that California way. Suave and handsome and no shoes on, but that’s not really the case.The last show I did with him, it was a benefit show.
I mean, it was a conversation that one afternoon yielded that song. It wasn’t the lead character singing. It was one of the secondary characters. And so it has these strange lines out of this guy going into this reverie about being posted in Rangoon. And he’s kind of like, as I recall, an Alan Turing kind of character.
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