Painted from Memory

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Painted from Memory
Painted from Memory cover
Studio album by Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello
Released 29 September 1998
Recorded  ???
Genre Pop
Length 52:07
Label Mercury Records
Producer(s) Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello
Professional reviews
Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello chronology
Extreme Honey
(1997)		 Painted from Memory
(1998)		 The Sweetest Punch
(1999)


Painted From Memory is a collaboration between Elvis Costello and famed sixties pop tunesmith Burt Bacharach, released September 29, 1998, on Mercury Records, a division of Universal Music Group.

The collaboration commenced with "God Give Me Strength," a commission for the 1996 film Grace of My Heart, directed by Allison Anders and starring Illeana Douglas. Apparently pleased with the result, the pair expanded the project to this full album, the first for Costello after an absence of two years, and for Bacharach after an absence of 21 years. Lyrics and music are co-credited to both Bacharach and Costello.

A companion album was made concurrently by jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, released in 1999 on another Universal label, Decca Records, The Sweetest Punch. It consists of jazz arrangements of the Painted From Memory songs done by Frisell and his studio group. It features vocals by Costello on two songs, and by jazz singer Cassandra Wilson on two songs, one of which is a duet employing both.

Costello had long been a Bacharach fan, and had recorded several Bacharach songs, beginning with "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself," released on a 1978 Stiff Records compilation Live Stiffs.

Painted from Memory won a Grammy Award in 1998 for "Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals" for Bacharach and Costello.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach.

  1. "In the Darkest Place" – 4:19
  2. "Toledo" – 4:35
  3. "I Still Have That Other Girl" – 2:46
  4. "This House Is Empty Now" – 5:10
  5. "Tears at the Birthday Party" – 4:38
  6. "Such Unlikely Lovers" – 3:24
  7. "My Thief" – 4:20
  8. "The Long Division" – 4:15
  9. "Painted from Memory" – 4:12
  10. "The Sweetest Punch" – 4:09
  11. "What's Her Name Today?" – 4:08
  12. "God Give Me Strength" – 6:11

[edit] Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1998 The Billboard 200 78

[edit] External links


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My Aim Is True • Spike • King of America • Brutal Youth • Mighty Like a Rose • Kojak Variety • North • Il Sogno

This Year's Model • Armed Forces • Get Happy!! • Trust • Almost Blue • Imperial Bedroom • Punch the Clock • Goodbye Cruel World • Blood and Chocolate • All This Useless Beauty

When I Was Cruel • Cruel Smile • The Delivery Man

Collaborations

The Juliet Letters with The Brodsky Quartet • Terror & Magnificence with John Harle • Painted from Memory with Burt Bacharach • The Sweetest Punch with Bill Frisell • For the Stars with Anne-Sofie von Otter • My Flame Burns Blue with The Metropole Orkest • Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland • The River in Reverse with Allen Toussaint

Live albums

Live at the El Mocambo • Deep Dead Blue • Costello & Nieve

Soundtracks

G.B.H. • Jake's Progress

Collections

Taking Liberties • Ten Bloody Marys & Ten How's Your Fathers • The Best of Elvis Costello & The Attractions • Out of Our Idiot • Girls Girls Girls • 2 ½ Years • The Very Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1977-86 • Extreme Honey • The Very Best of Elvis Costello • Singles, Vol. 1 • Singles, Vol. 2 • Singles, Vol. 3

Categories

Elvis Costello albums • Elvis Costello songs
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