Painted From Memory
by Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach
- Type: Album
- Released: 28 September 1998
- Label: Mercury
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 52:02
- Community rating: 3.69/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Bringing together two distinct generations of master pop songwriters, this collaborative effort marries Costello's hyper-literate, frequently cynical lyricism with Bacharach's lush, impeccably sophisticated orchestrations. The sweeping strings and horn arrangements serve as a beautifully melancholic backdrop for a song cycle deeply concerned with heartbreak and enduring loss.
Genres
Descriptors: breakup, orchestral, elegant, sophisticated, ballad
Tracklist
- In The Darkest Place (4:19)
- Toledo (4:34)
- I Still Have That Other Girl (2:46)
- This House Is Empty Now (5:08)
- Tears At The Birthday Party (4:37)
- Such Unlikely Lovers (3:23)
- My Thief (4:19)
- The Long Division (4:13)
- Painted From Memory (4:11)
- The Sweetest Punch (4:09)
- What's Her Name Today? (4:07)
- God Give Me Strength (6:10)
Credits
- Elvis Costello - primary artist, composed by, producer, voice
- Burt Bacharach - primary artist, arranged by, conductor, composed by, piano, producer, conductor, piano
- Greg Cohen - bass
- Anne Karam - cello
- Jodi Burnett - cello
- Larry Corbett - cello
- Robert L. Adcock - cello
- Suzie Katayama - cello
- Dan Higgins - clarinet, baritone saxophone
- Assa Drori - concertmaster
- Patti Zimmitti - contractor [the music team-contractor]
- Milo Lewis - coordinator [studio co-ordination]
- Averill Brophy Associates - design
- Jim Keltner - drums
- Alan Sanderson - engineer [assistant, ocean way studios]
- Joe Lizzi - engineer [assistant, right track studio]
- Steve Kujala - flute, piccolo flute
- Richard Todd - french horn
- Dean Parks - guitar, soloist, guitar
- George Doering - guitar
- Gayle Levant - harp
- Steve Nieve - keyboards, piano, grand piano [second]
- Marsha Vlasic - management [agency u.s.a. and canada]
- Danny Bennett - management [represented by]
- Barrie Marshall - management [rest of the world]
- Bob Zimmitti - percussion
- Daniel Greco - percussion
- William Claxton - photography by [front cover and booklet]
- Rankin - photography by [inlay tray and booklet]
- Kevin Killen - recorded by, engineer, mixed by
- Bill Reichenbach - trombone
- John Van Houten - tuba
- Andrew Picken - viola
- Carole Mukogawa - viola
- Harry Shirinian - viola
- John Scanlon - viola
- Keith Greene - viola
- Marilyn Baker - viola
- Rick Gerding - viola
- Roland Kato - viola
- Alan Grunfeld - violin
- Armen Garabedian - violin
- Berj Garabedian - violin
- Bette Byers - violin
- Brian Leonard - violin
- Bruce Dukov - violin
- Darius Campo - violin
- David Ewart - violin
- Gil Romero - violin
- Haim Shtrum - violin
- Horia Moroaica - violin
- Jackie Brand - violin
- Karen Jones - violin
- Lisa Johnson - violin
- Mari Tsumura - violin
- Michael Markman - violin
- Murray Adler - violin
- Norman Hughes - violin
- Pat Johnson - violin
- Richard Altenbach - violin