To Hal and Bacharach

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To Hal and Bacharach
Tribute album by Various
Released	April 20, 1998
Genre	Easy Listening
Length	mm:ss
Label	Warner/WEA
Producer(s)	Kurt Lathy, Christa Mitchell and Melissa Whebell

This 1998 tribute album^[1] features songs written by Hal David & Burt Bacharach. The idea was developed by Kurt Lathy, Christa Mitchell and Melissa Whebell. A number of Australian performers participated, among them: Regurgitator, Rebecca's Empire, The Whitlams, Tex Perkins, The Avalanches, Dave Graney and Frank Bennett^[2]

Bacharach has had his songs recorded by many artists. The track listing^[3] gives the original artist as well as the covering artist. It also includes timings^[4]

[edit] track list

Track	Title	Covering Artist	First Recorded by	Track Length
1	Always Something There to Remind Me	Rebecca's Empire	Lou Johnson	4:28
2	Walk on By	The Mavis's	Dionne Warwick	3:15
3	This Girl's in Love with You	Leonardo's Bride	Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass	4:48
4	Trains and Boats and Planes	The Dumb Earth	Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas	3:23
5	The Look of Love	Lisa Miller & Tex Perkins	Dusty Springfield	4:22
6	Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head	Cordrazine	B.J. Thomas	3:42
7	What's New Pussycat	Frank Bennett	Tom Jones	2:11
8	I'll Never Fall in Love Again	The Whitlams	Jerry Orbach	3:38
9	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	Regurgitator	Gene Pitney	2:18
10	Do You Know the Way to San Jose	The Avalanches	Dionne Warwick	5:00
11	Anyone Who Had a Heart	Kim Salmon and The Surrealists	Dionne Warwick	2:58
12	24 Hours From Tulsa	Chris Wilson	Gene Pitney	4:43
13	Wives and Lovers	Kiley Gaffney	Jack Jones	2:56
14	I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself	The Earthmen	Tommy Hunt	4:47
15	Make It Easy on Yourself	The Blackeyed Susans	Jerry Butler	4:39
16	(They Long to Be) Close to You	Billy Baxter	Richard Chamberlain	4:22
17	You'll Never Get to Heaven if You Break My Heart	Kiva	Dionne Warwick	3:42
18	What the World Needs Now (Is Love)	Dave Graney and Clare Moore vs The Dirty Three	Jackie De Shannon	4:24

[edit] References

1. ^ basic album information is from the Australian His Master's Voice site
2. ^ artist credits from discography of Frank Bennett
3. ^ Track and original/cover artist info from SecondHandSongs
4. ^ timings from last.fm