Burt Bacharach rehearses "Nikki" (1972)
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Burt Bacharach was known for his signature emotive style of conducting. Here's a rare glimpse of him conducting in rehearsal and explaining along the way what he wants his players to do. It's amazing to witness his process of getting the orchestra to project the complex musical textures he hears in his head. "Nikki" is the composition Burt named after his daughter and was adapted on a grander scale to become the instantly recognizable theme of "The ABC Movie of the Week" series of made-for-TV-movies in the '70s. From the 1972 ITC television special, "Burt Bacharach and Associates" (a/k/a "Chevrolet Presents Burt Bacharach").
Amazing!
See how Burt was demanding and dynamic in musical rehearsals, directing each sector of the orchestra so that the musicians donate their best performances.
Burt knew how to extract the potential of each musician!
That's why he will always be immortal.
This is the essence of Burt Bacharach!
A musical genius.
I agree! Even I can feel his demands cause I play piano and guitar. I miss him so much! His music will live forever💕🙏
I agree! Even I can feel his demands cause I play piano and guitar. I miss him so much! His music will live forever💕🙏
Burt was a genius in every way! A great composer, arranger, conductor, pianist, accompanist, producer. you name it and he did it! BURT my music hero! Burt thank you so much for all those great compositions that you have written. R.I.P. BURT 😪💔
BURT MODELED MY SOUL WITH HIS MUSIC FOR EVER.
@@Marcel20658. Imagine if he and Hal had never met? All we would’ve missed. We miss you both Hal and Burt.
Amazing clip... ABC Movie of the Week theme... he knew what he wanted... RIP both Nikki, and Burt.
Very very moving. Pure genius.
As a long-time lover of this song, I am shocked to only now be finding out about this clip… but better late than never! Thank you so much for posting. And RIP to Maestro Bacharach.
The scene at the end, where he’s walking hand-in-hand with Nikki is so poignant since he has now passed and we know the struggles that Nikki had. I’m not particularly religious but I like to think they are walking this way in a place we can’t see and that Nikki is healed and all is good. They both deserve it.
Unless you're autistic you don't know the struggle
@@krugerfuchs I somewhat agree and disagree. Sure, we'll never know what it's like to be autistic, but the family sure knew what it was like to live with someone with autism. People who've experienced living with someone severely autistic can know the struggle.
@noopysma oooo! So nicely said. I love the image you conjured in your head from that final scene shown here in this video. I love it and would like to also imagine it's true.
the song and knowing how she suffered always make me cry.
I still remember this as the opening song to The Movie of the week. I was delighted when i saw it was available on an Album. Its on my I Pod and brings back fond memories of childhood.
when I heard this, it took me right back to 1972 I was 10.
The greatest composer of modern music!
No doubt.
That was Jerry Goldsmith
Great to see Burt working in the studio. I actually met Nikki in the early 2000's. She and her mother, Angie Dickinson would go to the Motion Picture Academy for Oscar screenings, and I would sit behind them often. It was such a tragic loss, when Nikki took her own life in 2007.
Some time ago I left a comment on the New Format video of this beautiful composition about what it always portrayed to me an Englishman - of a sunny big city American morning.......then I learnt who Nikki was. Such a lovely moving and everlasting tribute to their daughter!
Unmistakable sound!
Oh My God,
I didn't know
Nikki took her Life,
How Sad, Wowwww
So Sad
R I.P. 🙏🏻🌹
Absolutely heartbreaking. Also, I loved this as a kid as the Movie Of The Week theme.
This will always be the ABC Movie of the Week to me.
As Mr Bacharach said, "Play it with some respect, not for the composer but for his daughter". It's clear from the instrumentalists' happy demeanor from the outset that they truly enjoyed working with (rather than for) Bacharach, who leads the rehearsal with authority but in a team spirit.
So well said! A joyful team spirit indeed radiates from this wonderfully captured performance.
■ u n s p e a k a b l y
■ f a k e
■ t e l e v i s i o n
■ t w a d d l e .
The little girl Nikki was immortalized by her father with this beautiful song. Burt joined the select group of composers who will live forever. The genius left but his great work remained in our hearts.
*Nikki was immortalized by her father with this beautiful song. *remains
@@January. Who appointed you the _Grammar Gauleiter_ ?
You're the _Commissar of Composition_ all of a sudden.
@@clayerkwiltee2315 It's UA-cam. There's no need to be appointed.
@@January. Are you suffering from OCPD? Why can't you compose a simple one line sentence without re-editing?
@@clayerkwiltee2315 The prevalence of ignoramuses in the world is astounding.
BURT PUT HIS MUSIC TO MY ENTIRE LIFE. THANK YOU BURT
Even when I was 12 years old and among all the great songs of that time, "Nikki" had my admiration. This song is still a song I love to hear.
There is something intangible; like joy, about listening to Burt Bacharach's music.
Also Know as the ABC Movie of The Week Theme
A lot of good TV back then.
It would have been a huge, angst-ridden privilege to be on of the studio musicians on this recording. Burt certainly knew what he wanted.
i dont know if the the orchestra mistake was "staged" ,the first 4 bars in Dminor, the ryhthm instruments were in the right chords bars ,suddenly in the 5th bar the othe ryhthm guitar played other Gmajor and the brasses played other notes,i thought was a humorous moment , showed the connection between the composer and the orchestra , but when Burt said ,play with some "respect" not for the composer ,for his daughter, he highlighted the importance of his daughter in his life, now both are in Heaven..Burt was always my favorite music pop composer from the 60,70
@carl perkins: Great question and good ear in figuring out the errant guitar chord! I believe the correct chord in the fifth bar was supposed to be B-flat major 7. Whether real or staged for this television special, Burt certainly had great respect and affection for his musicians.
Though the whole scene did feel very staged, I really enjoyed hearing how Burt communicated his ideas to the musicians. As with the 2021 Beatles "Get Back" documentary by Peter Jackson, I can't get enough of this kind of footage. I'm the person saying "Get back was ONLY 8 hours long? Any way I can see the outtakes?" Same applies here, I could happily watch Bacharach produce a recording from start to finish.
Senhores não houve erro nenhum: a interrupção foi proposital e alguns músicos interromperam antes dos outros dando a impressão de "erro".
Wow wonderful! Brought tears to my eyes.😢❤
Me too.
There’s none like him.💕
Quando ouço essa música e quando vejo a cena final desse vídeo, tenho vontade de chorar...
me too, brings back my childhood.
Look at those musicians. They love this man and his song.
Definitely....look at the string players, those are the old guard of what was probably the LA studio recording scene at that time, so they've seen and played it all. They are happy and relaxed. You can always tell with the body language and faces of the strings if you (the conductor) are liked or not liked by the orchestra. Winds are good at hiding it, and brass just mutter nasty things under their breath LOL. But the strings will let you know in how they sit and how they play. He almost loses them at the beginning by talking so much...orchestras hate that and it was probably done for the cameras, but he has them as soon as he starts rehearsing.
A father's love for his daughter ..immortalized ! Nikki and her dad, Burt Bacharach are together now ! Rest in Peace !❤❤❤
How often in history do we get an over-the-top genius like Burt?
not often enough
What a beautiful piece of music.
The two of them walking away together at the end just haunts me…💞
Pure magic. What a video! RIP, the Great Burt Bacharach.
Burton Bacharach was untouchable when it comes to writing music and picking the right person to sing his songs. ❤❤❤❤❤
A master composer at work!!!!
I WAS THINKING ABOUT BURT THIS AFTERNOON AND I DECIDED TO PLAY SOME OF HIS MUSIC AND I SAW THIS NICE VIDEO OF HE AND HIS DAUGHTER. SO SAD THEY ARE BOTH GONE I SAW HIM IN CONCERT ABOUT 5 YEARS AGO IN BEVERLY HILLS IT WAS VERY NICE MY MOM TREATED ME TO THE CONCERT I LOST HER 3 YEARS GO. R.I.P. BURT AND NICKI. AND MOM I MISS YOU TERRIBLY. THANKS FOR POSTING.
Very sad there were heartaches that couldn't be repaired....
I love to watch a genius at work.
RIP Burt, the legend
What an honour it must have been to be recording with Burt Bacharach!
Thank you for all the beautiful 🎶 that touchs my heart ♥. Tearfully touching,! Priceless!
This is wonderful looking at behind the scenes of the ABC Movie Of The Week theme. The song was named after his daughter Nikki. She took her own life in 2007 and Mr. Bacharach lived to be 93 years old. He wrote a lot of great songs and made Dionne Warwick a big name. His legacy of music will live for many years to come.
Magic! And Burt and Nikki are playing beautiful music in heaven ❤
This is one of the most amazing videos I've seen, so see an artist at work
We can't judge other people, Burt and Angie know how hard it was! Nikki still had a wonderful mom, Angie! Burt could never bring himself to open the suicide note Nikki left him! I think the guilt and sorrow was too much to bear!
*were too much
Thank you for uploading this masterpiece. Thoroughly enjoyed. I listen to this often. Burt Bacharach is an AMERICAN TREASURE AND SORELY MISSED 😢.
That was Jerry Goldsmith
@@alexgarciagarcia5447 You obviously lack English comprehension skills.
The thief thinks that everyone is of his condition. Jerry Goldsmith, the master@@January.
@@alexgarciagarcia5447 UNINTELLIGIBLE
The thief thinks that everyone is of his condition. Jerry Goldsmith, the master@@January.
But and his daughter are back together again .
I was just a kid when this came out but it is one of my favorite pieces of music to listen to. For some reason it evokes a calming and peaceful feeling in me. Thank you Mr. Bacharach.
How cool was that!
Thank you to whoever posted this amazing video into the making of this classic Bacharach composition. I often wondered who were the musicians that played on the song. Its so interesting.
His music pierces to the core of our emotions. It skips between sadness and joy, joy and sadness, all within the space of a minute. One second you are about to weep tears of loss, and then a kind of relief comes to the rescue, and then happiness sweeps over completely.
Wow, that's very interesting to think about how his music can do that. I never could quite capture how his music is so moving but I think you may have gotten it!
I know Burt loved his daughter, Nikki very much as well as Angie! Burt could never open the suicide note Nikki left him! It broke his heart!
Amazingly well put. I suspect she put a lot of blame on him. He wasn’t too suited to have an autistic (She had some form of mental disorder) daughter when he was at that stage of his career.
@Bob PerkinsDDS God gives us burdens to bear! Nikki was also a great blessing, she survived!
@@susanjohnson5340 until she didn’t.
@@susanjohnson5340 And God gave Nikki her burden to bear?
@@susanjohnson5340 //she's successfully killed herself
Maestro
His melodies, and the lyrics of Hal David, will live forever
He was always so creative with whatever he did. It didn't matter where in the house we were then, but about 8 o'clock at night when that theme song would play, our family would all come into the living room to see what the movie of the week was going to be.
Que capo era Burt Bacharach, gracias a Nicolas Godin conocí al gran Burt ya que su estilo a influenciado muchísimo en Nicolas.
There will never be another Burt Bacharach ...I pray he knew the Lord...and I meet him in Heaven one day...😇
I get to say I was alive when he was!
Thanks for this beautiful homage from THE MASTER BACHARACH to his lovely daughter Nikki at 8 years old. This song shows the most beautiful Bacharach sound. Splendid. The soundtrack of my life.
Karen Carpenter's funeral was 40 years to the day(February 8th,1983) before Burt died in 2023. Man, they left us so much. As you said above, this tune was also the ABC ( "Tuesday" originally) Movie of the Week theme and it sure brings back family memories. RIP... CLOSE TO YOU.Thanks for the post showing the time it takes to get that Bacharach sound.
Poignant. ❤
So sweet. We miss you Mr. Bacharach 😢
That......was beautiful ❤️
Very sad his daughter had so many problems
Wow!
He was the best, I love his music since I was 6 years old, he was always my crush, I still see him and my opinion has not changed, he was so handsome, for me he was perfection in many aspects.
This takes me to childhood remembering this as opening for movie of week. I remember it before bedtime and the graphics on TV. Its dreamy, alluring, mature, intelligent... and hypnotic . No theme music like this anymore. Everything is loud, obnoxious and in-your-face. To learn the real meaning behind it is even more heavenly.
Burt’s entreaties to his orchestra to “underplay it” demonstrate how he hears it in his head and verbally transfers that to his musicians in rehearsal. Then they exactly remember it when they play for the final recording. Amazing talent by all to translate a written song into a masterpiece of music.
Maravilhoso!!!!! Gigante Bacharach!!!
Nikki and I were both 3 years old as we went to the same school and challenged each other at hopscotch. She was frail, gifted and was born premature, a miracle of survival in itself! She won our hopscotch game! She was proud, as I thought, ‘she should be???’ Despite her premature birth issues, etc…. She, won the hopscotch game! Nikki looked me in the face, as she hopscotched to the winning line and said to me, “ Pissa fracka.” I thought, ‘ What?’ That was hilarious! I laughed with stomach aches! Instant love, for real! Did and did not understand my understated adoption by her parents, as above, and I must admit, I just NOW, saw, for the first time-ever; memories beautiful! Burt loved her more then I can ever know? Both of her parents were angels of sacrificial love towards Nikki, and out of love and sincere gratitude, I would like to attest to the heartfelt truth, gratitude, and sheer child naïveté, the love, appreciation and unimaginable blessings that both Burt and her mother, Angie Dickinson, kindly and truly bestowed upon so many of us around the world, to this day! Showers of abundant golden love. Remember, as Burt’s music rang around the world, his famous words so graciously appreciated and devoted, “ What the World Needs Now, is Love Sweet Love, it’s the only thing🎶that there’s just too little of🎶❤️”…Ad infinitum…. LOVE❤️🎶🌅Dawn.
What does pissa fracka mean?
Freaking genius!!!!!!!!!!!
This guy's genius (and Dionne Warwick) was the soundtrack of my childhood. I've linked so many memories to his songs......
Let's not forget Hal David.
Beautiful. I've always loved the song but never seen how he put his whole being into every sound on the arrangement.
Wish I had the talent to do something like this for my own daughter.
I hope their reunion was a joyous one.
RIP Burt, and thanks for everything.
This is really fantastic, thank you so much for posting! A very rare opportunity!
Amo la tua musica da 50 anni.....❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Unmistakenly Bacharach.
He was so handsome & talented.❤
Beautiful and haunting...
I 'll always Love this special gifted human being
When I hear this music , this "song", it reminds me of 'THE ABC MOVIE OF THE WEEK" theme!!!!!! Which it truly is!
Agreed, GringoLatino941! Interesting how Burt created a poignant, reflective arrangement of this song as featured here, but he also created a grander, lavish arrangement as the theme for "The ABC Movie of the Week" -- and both versions were brilliant.
Beautiful
It is so wonderful to compose this beautiful piece of music for your daughter. Have two daughters of your own and with this song you realize how much you love them.❤
En el año de 1966 compusierón Nikki? Y el 72 qe bomito es hermosa
LINDAMENTE LINDO!
His music is very distinctive.
prachtig, zo ontroerend...een onvergetelijke componist, forever and ever!
RiP BB🕊️🌟🎹
As an Autistic woman, this is near and dear to my heart. I love you so much, Nikki and Burt.
Autistic rights are human rights. ❤
Burt Bacharach you are a Brilliant Genius Composer.
Beautiful 💕
Buone feste al laureato che mi diede l'informazione che Burt Bacharach era un direttore d'orchestra
Loved this
Greatness can be amazingly overbearing
Burt Bacharach . What a musical genius
I Should've Known It Was,
The One And Only,
The Great Musician of The 1960,s 70,s.
Burt Bacarac,
This Was Such a Beautiful Piece of Music He Made,
Nikki 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
The Man Was Great.
Walk On By,
What's It All About, Alfi.
And So Many Other Great Pieces of Great Music.
Truly Solid Gold
R.I.P.
Burt Bacarac 🙏🏻🌹
Pure genius.
👏👏👏👏💕💕🎼🎵🎶🎵🎶💕💕
May i ask where you found this? I would love to see more! Thanks for sharing this with everyone!
This is from the 1972 ITC television special, "Burt Bacharach and Associates" (a/k/a "Chevrolet Presents Burt Bacharach"), and the entire special is currently available on UA-cam under "Burt Bacharach TV Special 1972." Anthony Newley and Sammy Davis Jr. guested on this show.
Are you still helping...ect.ect...?
É emocionante!!! Deus os tenha.
Made me desire to play piano & organ. Walked by Brill Building in NYC so often.
Wonderful that you shared how Burt inspired your interest in music!
The Master!
MOVIE OF THE WEEK
This was great.It has always been a favorite song of mine.Very sad about their daughter.
"Nikki, it's you
Nikki, where can you be?
It's you, no one but you for me
I've been so lonely since you went away
I won't spend a happy day
Til you're back in my arms."
Fantastique !!!
Genial burth bacara wonderfull 👏
Gorgeous!
I have tonnes of studio recordings of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David Dionne Warwick sessions (from Walk on By, onwards), where Dionne does repeated takes, as the track (I honestly don't know if the backup was sung at the same sessions, or not, because I'm recalling their booth was mic'ed as well, and I can hear the back-and-forth between them as I do with Ms Warwick, but, I really don't remember (the copies I was given - though not from the board, but, close to it - aren't degraded by being made from copies of copies, and the only thing they're missing is notes, i.e, who was in the booth (I can read an album, and from reading a released album's liner notes, and having a good ear (enough to recognise a specific session vocalist), but, the sessions - the 'pieces', so to speak, but, they don't say was AT a specific session.
How, and where I got them from...well, I know WHEN I was given them (I WILL say when I was given the Bacharach tapes, my jaw hit the floor), and I know they're not available anywhere (I won't say WHO) gave them 🧐). The only problem (NOT with their sound quality), is, I don't have my tape system set up (it's still in its boxes for the past decade. Laziness, I'm sorry to say).
Personally, I've been a lifelong collector of music, and I've been VERY fortunate to have known people who's artistry I'm a huge fan of (primarily the 60s - girl groups through British singers, and Burt's right in there), and I've collected a lot (I used to listen to much of it - I'd make eq'ed and edited cassettes from the raw tapes I received - on my Walkman (a Sony WM-DD100 Boodo Khan, which I STILL prize today... though I now listen to Hi-resolution mp3's, I DO sometimes use my Boodo Khan headphones which are STILL powerful as all heck).Sigh...
On the tapes, there's tonnes of chatter between the booth and singers, Burt telling Dionne things he wants her to emote, etc, and I doubt it's available anywhere. I really don't have a problem sharing it with other people, like me (just as people, like Mr Spector gave me stuff, and honestly, I can't even tell, you why he and I hit it off - I'm much younger - male, and he was just a fun gentleman, who liked how interested I was in his creations...I, just simply love beautiful music, and sharing with others who are so ...curious, interested in how these amazing, legendary tracks came into existence (BTW; though I'm a fan, and acquaintance of the late Mr Phil Spector, and I DO have much unreleased stuff from his Gold Star days, I'm NOT the source who released a CD a few years ago of several of his tracks. Even though I say that, I'm not 'mad' whoever DID release it, as it shows his creative process on his most iconic tracks. On the other hand, I DO understand the artist's POV, that the Bacharach session tapes I have, and which can be heard o the Spector CD, show real music afficionados the 'magic', and how it's made, there IS a logic to saying, 'don't look behind the wizard's curtain', so to speak.
beautiful, remember this tune very well from my childhood, sunday nights movie theme, never knew that was by Burt.
GREAT FATHER
Genius yes!
Amazing to see the process this master songwriter went through to achieve "his sound". So interesting and fun to watch.