When it comes to sports, I'm on the side lines cheering. Always a spectator, I'm not much of a player of anything.
If it hadn't been for Burt in the photo chosen this week, I'd have passed, but I've harbored a secret crush on Burt Bacharach for years. Handsome and talented, he has my eternal admiration as a player, but as a player of the flugelhorn, not tennis. Every last flugelhorn player I know is grateful to Burt for the flugelhorn parts he wrote into his songs like "Walk on By". Flugelhorning sadly is another activity I've only rarely watched and never played.
How did Burt find time to play tennis? He wrote more than 70 top 40 tunes according to Wikipedia, "characterized by unusual chord progressions,
striking syncopated rhythmic patterns, irregular phrasing, frequent
modulation, and odd, changing meters". Those tricky bits are what made his tunes stick in your head for days. Not only that, but he was married to Angie Dickinson which must have been absorbing to say the least. Then he was married to the great Carole Bayer Sager!
I like to think about Burt not with a tennis racket but with a baton in his hand and if I'd had any say he would have been chained to his music stand, syncopating and certainly not running around with Dinah, nice as she may be.
It's amazing how well some people manage their time.
I always loved Burt Bacharach too. I bought his piano music but often it was just too tricky for me to master.
ReplyDeleteA great twist on this weeks theme :)
ReplyDeleteThat’s a different take on the theme Helen, but please don’t think of passing on Sepia Saturday; there is no requirement to link to a theme. I think Burt was supporting a charity tournament of Dinah’s, but I too prefer his lovely music.
ReplyDeleteBy the way,your link in Mr Linky leads us to an old post, I had to google this one. If you’d like to put the correct link in I’ll remove the old one for you.
ReplyDeleteI don’t know if you aware that you still have word verification switched on. Most of us have ditched it with no ill effects. I can send you details of how to do this if you like.
I am a big fan of Burt's as well. Many of his songs got interesting twists later, Red Telephone, Planes and Boats and Trains to name a couple. Had no idea that you were a flugelhorn aficionado but it somehow figures...
ReplyDeleteI'm not even much of a spectator when it comes to sports, and I'm not musical either.
ReplyDeleteLike your take on this week's theme. I've always been a big fan of Mr. Bacharach's music.
ReplyDeleteNow you have me wondering what fugelhorning is. I'll need to check that out. Great post!
ReplyDeleteLike Nell said, don't worry about being on theme. I wasn't at all this week; I posted vintage postcards of St. Louis. Come to find out, if I had read everybody else's post's first, I would have had an on theme post as I thought of one but didn't follow up.
Kathy M.
I enjoy a good flugelhorn player as well. My favorite - Chuck Mangione.
ReplyDeleteBacharach and a flugelhorn, that's a racket I could get used to.
ReplyDeleteThat was a great switch from sports to music. Although I'm very, very semi interested in tennis (just because it runs in the family) I'd much rather listen to music.
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P.S. glad to see you turned off that darn verification thing! So did we.
I'd rather have the spam than have to do that all the time. I'll bet most people don't even know it's on their blogs. Thanks to Little Nell all of us Sepias are starting to get rid of it.
I am a fan of his always have been and always will! Great post!
ReplyDeleteGreat post and awesome twist on the theme!
ReplyDeleteI wrote a big comment on your post on Sunday and then my Ipad went dead and so did the post.
ReplyDeleteBut what I wanted to say is I can see why Angie ditched Burt (if that's what happened). He sounds like the biggest multi-tasker ever. But when it came to the task of marriage, that might have been just a little too much.
Nancy
I must be getting old because I remember Burt being married to Angie as well.
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