“Walk On By”
Written by Burt Bacharach & Hal David
MAUREEN HENESEY: lead vocal
MICHAEL WOLFF: piano
TOM HEMBY: guitar
DAN DUGMORE: pedal steel guitar
JERVONNY COLLIER: bass
TRACY SILVERMAN: strings
STEVEN SCHUMANN: cello
Producer: Tom Emmi
Associate Producer: Kevin Farrell
Mixing Engineer: Bill Schnee
Mastering Engineer: Sunny Nam
Video Editors: Dexter Gresh, Leo Switucha
Although just five feet eight inches in height, Burt Bacharach towered over the field in songwriting stature for more than half a century. Working in a style that was decidedly out of style by the late 1960s, Bacharach and his lyricist partner Hal David transcended musical fashion, combining unconventional song structures and complex orchestral touches to revolutionize the popular song. With the inimitable Dion Warwick as their muse, Bacharach and David put thirty songs into the top 40 and won six Grammies and three Oscars in the 60s alone. Burt Bacharach left us in 2023. But the spell he cast in song will keep bewitching us for decades to come.
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