Entertainment – Louisville

Each evening, we’ll offer top-notch professional entertainment, including award-winning composer and musician Burt Bacharach.

He started composing music for such artists as Marty Robbins and Perry Como, and it has never stopped. During the 1960s, Bacharach wrote and produced 20 Top 40 hits just for Dionne Warwick alone, including “Anyone Who Had a Heart”, “Walk On By”, “I Say a Little Prayer”, “Do You Know the Way to San Jose”, “This Girl’s in Love With You”, and “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again”. He went on to compose hit songs for a vast array of other performers, including Jackie DeShannon (“What the World Needs Now”), the Fifth Dimension (“One Less Bell to Answer”), Manfred Mann (“My Little Red Book”), Bobby Vinton (“Blue on Blue”), Herb Alpert (“This Guy’s in Love With You”), Tom Jones (“What’s New, Pussycat?” “Promise Her Anything”), Jack Jones (“Wives and Lovers”), Dusty Springfield (“The Look of Love”) and B.J. Thomas (“Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head).

 

Many of Sheryl’s smash hit songs, including “Every Day Is a Winding Road”, “A Change Would Do You Good”, and “The First Cut Is the Deepest”, are just examples of her broad repertoire of popular songs which easily cross between classical rock and her country roots, broadening her appeal to all generations. Her latest album, “100 Miles From Memphis”, is a statement of purpose, both musical and emotional.

“I grew up in a small town 100 miles from Memphis, and that formed not only my musical taste, but how I look at life,” she says. “The drive to Memphis is all farmland, and everyone is community-oriented, God-fearing people, connected to the earth. The music that came out of that part of the world is a part of who I am, and it’s the biggest inspiration for what I do and why I do it.”