Reach Out

by Burt Bacharach

Reach Out cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1967
  • Label: A&M
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 33:34
  • Community rating: 3.59/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

After a prolific career writing hits for countless pop vocalists, the iconic composer stepped forward to record his own defining arrangements on his debut solo album. The record features his signature, highly sophisticated orchestrations and complex, shifting time signatures on instrumental and vocal renditions of classics like 'The Look of Love'. It serves as a flawless, definitive document of 1960s easy listening and adult pop.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, orchestral, sophisticated, lounge, crooning

Tracklist

  1. Reach Out For Me (2:50)
  2. Alfie (3:05)
  3. Bond Street (2:04)
  4. Are You There (With Another Girl) (2:52)
  5. What The World Needs Now Is Love (4:14)
  6. The Look Of Love (2:42)
  7. A House Is Not A Home (3:48)
  8. I Say A Little Prayer (2:27)
  9. The Windows Of The World (2:29)
  10. Lisa (3:38)
  11. Message To Michael (3:21)

Credits

  • The Gun - primary artist
  • Keith Roberts - arranged by
  • Adrian Gurvitz - written-by

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