Fact #190806
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Short story:
Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa, sung by Gene Pitney, enters the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA where it will peak at No17. The song is composed by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
Full article:
Gene Pitney : We recorded it at Bell Sound in New York, with Aaron Schroeder and Wally Gold producing, although Bacharach controlled everything.
If you did a session with Bacharach and David, you always got Burt as your arranger. He wanted to conduct and write the scores. That was better than having a producer. He was very esteemed by the engineers and the musicians. Everybody wanted to work for Burt. They'd sit there, absolutely quiet, waiting for him to give them the downbeat. They didn't treat everybody like that. If they didn't respect a guy, they'd be off making coffee, or talking. With Burt, the atmosphere in the studio was amazing. And he always used the best musicians – Gary Chester on drums, Buck Pizzarelli on guitar, Al Caiola on guitar.
The Bacharach and David relationship had recently changed. They were very business-minded, particularly Hal. Not only was he a brilliant lyricist, he ended up being the president of ASCAP and he's now (2001) the president of the Songwriters' Hall Of Fame. At that stage, they were looking for people who were going to be available for their publishing companies … two other singers they ended up dealing with rather more than myself were B.J. Thomas and Dionne Warwick. It was a great relationship for me and I got to sing a whole bunch of great songs, including Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa.
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If you did a session with Bacharach and David, you always got Burt as your arranger. He wanted to conduct and write the scores. That was better than having a producer. He was very esteemed by the engineers and the musicians. Everybody wanted to work for Burt. They'd sit there, absolutely quiet, waiting for him to give them the downbeat. They didn't treat everybody like that. If they didn't respect a guy, they'd be off making coffee, or talking. With Burt, the atmosphere in the studio was amazing. And he always used the best musicians – Gary Chester on drums, Buck Pizzarelli on guitar, Al Caiola on guitar.
The Bacharach and David relationship had recently changed. They were very business-minded, particularly Hal. Not only was he a brilliant lyricist, he ended up being the president of ASCAP and he's now (2001) the president of the Songwriters' Hall Of Fame. At that stage, they were looking for people who were going to be available for their publishing companies … two other singers they ended up dealing with rather more than myself were B.J. Thomas and Dionne Warwick. It was a great relationship for me and I got to sing a whole bunch of great songs, including Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa.
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