A theme and variations on a great song written by the great Bacharach & David, and initially made famous by Dionne Warwick - and rightfully so.
This is a long track. It's not technically a theme and variations but rather the song played five times in a row, each time in a new key, varied tempi and moods. I cannot look back to my youth and recall a time when I did not know the music of Bacharach/David. It was omnipresent during my childhood, in the 1970's, and that, together with how well these compositions have withstood the test of time, and a little kickback from Austin Powers, Bacharach may todY be no less popular and beloved than ever through his long, industrious, productive, multi-faceted career.
At a future time I would like to get a dialogue going about Bacharach's unusual sense of time, or, more technically, his oscillation of time signatures. Meaning no disrespect to his genius, I could not help, upon reading his recent memoir, seeing pieces of a puzzle that perhaps resembles a variety of acute autism or some other atypical state of consciousness that was the seed from which his bounty of luscious fruits did bloom.
But for now, never mind that bunk - hope you enjoy this track.
