GGMS Gets Skipped
Burt Bacharach on his song selections for his new CD with Ronald Isley:
"I wanted to give him space," says Bacharach, 75, with Isley, 62, listening in. "I never wanted to threaten him with crowded orchestrations. One of the ideas they had at Dreamworks was to include 'God Give Me Strength' [which Bacharach wrote in 1999 with Elvis Costello] on this disc. But there's too many words in that song. It is very poetic and jammed together, like a lot of Elvis' work.""