40 years ago, I was standing at the guard booth at A & M records, waiting to gain admittance and a guy in a huge gold Rolls Royce drove up and looked at my friend and I and "I'm Burt Bacharach", I'm here to record." And without waiting, he drove right through to the lot. Rest in Peace all you awesome songwriters and thank you.
One of the couples was Pat and Bob Sheppard. Of course, Bob Sheppard was the great Yankee Stadium announcer as well as the New York Giants football games at Yankee Stadium and the original Giants Stadium. He was one of the great gentlemen. Sadly, Pat Sheppard passed away within a year of this show's airing.
What a gem! I watched this show in the summer or when I was home sick from school. Seeing these guys before their increased media visibility is fascinating.
For lovers of contemporary music of the 50s and 60s, this is an impressive clip. Norman Gimbel wrote English lyrics to bossa nova songs, including Girl from Ipanema and Water to Drink. Leiber's song Houndog needs no introduction.
From this classic American game show Play Your Hunch on NBC, this clip is from a 1960 episode with a guest appearance by the songwriters (Jerry, Burt & Norman). 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
My God... was Burt ever handsomer?! You could hear the audience gasping in disbelief everytime "Mr. Y" was mentioned, almost as if they thought he was a Too-Good-to-be-True plant.
@@13loomisst73 Maybe you have no reason to connect more deeply with Gimbel, but as a Brazilian I simply love the fact that he put the lyrics in English to arguably our most internationally known Brazilian song of the 60s, Girl from Ipanema, sung by the one and only Frank Sinatra!
I felt a little sorry for Burt. That was before he became THE songwriter of the last part of the century. Also Merv didn't do "Magic Moments" justice; Como gave it more sparkle. (I'm perfectly aware Merv COULDN'T do "Magic Moments" justice in the few seconds he had!)