{"id":2235,"date":"2024-06-22T12:58:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T12:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2024-06-22T13:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T13:00:39","slug":"legendary-pop-composer-who-wrote-i-say-a-little-prayer-and-many-other-hits-dies-at-the-age-of-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/legendary-pop-composer-who-wrote-i-say-a-little-prayer-and-many-other-hits-dies-at-the-age-of-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Pop Composer Who Wrote \u2018I Say A Little Prayer\u2019 and Many Other Hits Dies at the Age of 94"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I Say A Little Prayer; Raindrops Keep Fallin\u2019 on My Head, Love Is What the World Needs Now, I\u2019ll Never Fall In Love Again\u2026 Burt Bacharach, the legendary composer, was responsible for all these truly legendary songs.<br>Bacharach wrote hundreds of songs during his decades-long career, many of which we\u2019ve all danced to or sung along to at some point. In total, 73 of his songs charted in the top 40 in the United States.<br>Sadly, the legendary songwriter passed away on February 8th at 94. Bacharach died of natural causes<br>\n\n\n\n</p><p>Bacharach grew up in New York and was a classically trained musician. He had also served in the United States Army.\n\n\n\n</p><p>He didn\u2019t become the sensation he is today, however, until he met fellow lyricist Hal David in 1957. Together, they produced Marty Robbins The Story of My Life (Michael Holliday in the UK hit version) and Perry Como\u2019s Magic Moments. Both of which become UK number-one hits.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><div class='\"mh-excerpt\"'><p>I Say A Little Prayer; Raindrops Keep Fallin\u2019 on My Head, Love Is What the World Needs Now, I\u2019ll Never Fall In Love Again\u2026 Burt <a class='\"mh-excerpt-more\"' href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/sciencesandnatures.com%5C/legendary-pop-composer-who-wrote-i-say-a-little-prayer-and-many-other-hits-dies-at-the-age-of-94%5C/%5C%22" title='\"Legendary' pop composer who wrote say a little prayer and many other hits dies at the age of>[&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/2236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</a></p></div>