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1.StopI Cry More (From Don't Knock the Rock) – Alan Dale 02:57
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2.StopSittin' in a Tree House – Marty Robbins 02:19
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3.StopLove in a Goldfish Bowl – Tommy Sands 02:15
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4.StopFrom Rocking Horse to Rocking Chair – Paul Anka 02:31
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5.StopBe True to Yourself – Bobby Vee 02:06
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6.StopThat's the Way I'll Come to You – Bobby Vee 02:19
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7.StopWho's Been Sleeping in My Bed? – Linda Scott 02:30
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8.StopTry to See It My Way – Little Peggy March 02:45
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9.StopForgive Me – Noeleen Batley 02:00
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10.StopWarm and Tender – Johnny Mathis 02:24
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11.StopYou're Following Me – Perry Como 02:07
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12.StopRome Will Never Leave Us – Richard Chamberlain 02:27
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13.StopForever Yours I Remain – Bobby Vinton 02:34
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14.StopWanting Things – Connie Francis 02:44
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15.StopThe Love of a Boy – Julie Rogers 02:55
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16.StopAnonymous Phone Call – Frank Ifield 02:21
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17.StopA Girl Like You – Adam Faith 01:49
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18.StopCountry Music Holiday – Adam Faith 02:09
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19.StopI Wake Up Cryin' – Cliff Richard 02:09
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20.Stop(It's) Wonderful to Be Young – Cliff Richard 02:35
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21.StopThe Answer to Everything – Del Shannon 02:45
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22.StopFool Killer – Gene Pitney 03:22
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23.StopLittle Betty Falling Star – Gene Pitney 02:23
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24.StopThere Goes the Forgotten Man – Gene McDaniels 02:55
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25.StopLong After Tonight Is All Over – Jimmy Radcliffe 02:39
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26.StopIt's Love That Really Counts – The Exciters 02:51
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27.StopLong Day, Short Night – The Shirelles 02:20
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28.StopSinner's Devotion – Tammi Terrell 02:45
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29.StopI Cry Alone – Maxine Brown 02:31
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30.StopWaiting for Charlie (To Come Home) – Etta James 02:05
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31.StopLook in My Eyes, Maria – Jay & the Americans 02:20
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32.StopAre You There (With Another Boy)? – The Buckinghams 02:49
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33.StopAnother Tear Falls – The Walker Brothers 02:26
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34.StopThe Breaking Point – Normie Rowe 02:13
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35.StopThe Story of My Life – Herman's Hermits 02:31
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36.StopI Fell in Love With Your Picture – Freddie & the Dreamers 02:08
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37.StopAfter the Fox – The Hollies, Peter Sellers 02:18
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38.StopKeep Away From Other Girls – Helen Shapiro 02:26
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39.StopIf I Never Get to Love You – Marianne Faithfull 02:16
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40.StopWindows and Doors – Jackie DeShannon 02:48
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41.StopLong Ago Tomorrow – B.J. Thomas 04:00
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42.StopSend My Picuture to Scranton, PA – B.J. Thomas 02:40
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43.StopSomething Big – Mark Lindsay 02:18
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44.StopThree Wheels on My Wagon – The New Christy Minstrels 02:59
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45.StopLet Me Be Lonely – The 5th Dimension 04:00
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46.StopI'm a Better Man – Engelbert Humperdinck 02:49
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47.StopDon't You Believe It – Andy Williams 02:30
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48.StopTen Times Forever More – Johnny Mathis 02:37
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49.StopThe Young Grow Younger Every Day – Burt Bacharach, Peter Yarrow 02:46
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50.StopMexican Divorce – Dan Johnson 03:34
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51.StopAll Kinds of People – Jerry Butler 04:46
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52.StopA House Is Not a Home – Mavis Staples 04:28
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53.StopI Took My Strength From You – Sylvester 06:57
The three-CD box set The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection has virtually all of the best and most significant recordings of songs in which Bacharach was involved as composer. The two-CD The Rare Bacharach 1 (most of it composed by Bacharach and Hal David, though a few of the tunes paired Bacharach with other lyricists) is a good supplement to that box, though not without some minor flaws. To start with the more important positives, the breadth of this set is staggering, with recordings -- largely from the 1960s, and none of them major hits -- by stars including Tommy Sands, Paul Anka, Bobby Vee, Little Peggy March, Johnny Mathis, Perry Como, Bobby Vinton, Connie Francis, Del Shannon, Gene Pitney, the Shirelles, Maxine Brown, the Buckinghams, Herman's Hermits, Freddie the Dreamers, the Hollies, B.J. Thomas, the 5th Dimension, Tammi Terrell, Engelbert Humperdinck, Andy Williams, Jerry Butler, Frank Ifield, the New Christy Minstrels, and Sylvester. That's just a big portion of the pie: there are also efforts by little-knowns like Noeleen Batley, Julie Rogers, Jimmy Radcliffe, and Australian star Normie Rowe, as well as early-'60s covers from British teen idols Cliff Richard, Adam Faith, and Helen Shapiro.While much of this is good listening, however, none of it can stand up to the best of Bacharach's work, though a few songs come fairly close, like Pitney's "Fool Killer" (the only song also found on The Look of Love, though the version heard here has strings), Marianne Faithfull's "If I Never Get to Love You," the Exciters' "It's Love That Really Counts," Jimmy Radcliffe's "Long After Tonight Is All Over," the Walker Brothers' "Another Tear Falls," and Jackie DeShannon's "Windows and Doors." There are a few really obscure songs that jump out as worthy of wider recognition, like Etta James' "Waiting for Charlie (To Come Home)," Maxine Brown's "I Cry Alone," Rogers' "The Love of a Boy," and (more surprisingly) Jay the Americans' vibrant, Latin-tinged "Look in My Eyes, Maria," but not that many. Too, some of these versions are not the originals, which sometimes leaves room for good or unusual little-heard covers (the Walker Brothers' "Another Tear Falls," Faithfull's "If I Never Get to Love You," the Exciters' "It's Love That Really Counts," Mavis Staples' "A House Is Not a Home"), but also sometimes means that you're hearing an interpretation that's clearly inferior to a better-known one (as Rowe's "The Breaking Point" is to Chuck Jackson's, or Dan Johnson's "Mexican Divorce" is to the Drifters'). There's nothing by Bacharach's most renowned interpreter, Dionne Warwick. And a good minority of this is rather unremarkable middle of the road pop without even tenuous links to a pop/rock aesthetic.To continue the nitpicking, the liner notes are a disappointment, not only offering few specific details about the tracks on the set, but not even listing original release dates or labels (or chart positions, if any). Yes, that's nitpicking, but the very kinds of collectors most likely to pick up a compilation like this are the ones most likely to care about such things. That's not to say this release doesn't offer a lot of pleasure for both the Bacharach scholar and the more general '60s pop/rock fan. With just a little more care, though, it could have been significantly better. Richie Unterberger, Rovi
- Genre: R&B, Vocal, Rock
- Subgenre: Pop/Rock, British Invasion, R&B/Soul
- Category British Invasion, Soul
- Release Date: July 22, 2003
- Artist: Bacharach Burt