Burt Bacharach I Say a Little Prayer

His mother, an artist/songwriter, encouraged her son to study music at the Mannes School of Music and McGill University. After leaving the U.S. Army he became a ...

“Most composers sit in a room by themselves and nobody knows what they look like,” he wrote. Try playing them. These words I’ve been asked to write are being written with sadness over the loss of my Dear Friend and my Musical Partner. [AP](https://apnews.com/article/celebrity-obituaries-carole-king-burt-bacharach-hal-david-c1526b7c1b9b4389b17a3e657676b391) reported. Army he became a songwriter in the 1950s. After leaving the U.S.