![]() If there’s a song from that era with tinkly piano and a chorus of “na-na-na,” you’re probably listening to a Bacharach song. None more so than the Oscar-winning “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” from the film “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (for which he also won the Academy Award for Best Original Score - he’d later win his third Oscar, Best Original Song, for “Arthur’s Theme”). “Easy listening” in the flesh.īacharach’s best songs are iconic. With his thin, angular face, trademark turtlenecks, and thatch of gray-white hair, he was a visual embodiment of effortless mid-20th century cool. Burt Bacharach, the three-time Academy Award winner who died at 94 on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles, was the epitome of the celebrity songwriter. The list of songwriters who don’t sing but who you can still recognize on sight is a short one.
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