To Hal and Bacharach explained

To Hal and Bacharach
Type:	Tribute album
Artist:	Various
Cover:	To_Hal_and_Bacharach_615278.jpg
Released:	20 April 1998
Genre:	Easy listening
Label:	Warner/WEA
Producer:	Kurt Luthy, Christa Mitchell, Melissa Whebell

To Hal and Bacharach is a 1998 tribute album featuring songs written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach covered by Australian artists. The idea, developed by Kurt Luthy, Christa Mitchell and Melissa Whebell, was to have a number of Australian performers cover various David/Bacharach tunes, among them: Regurgitator, Rebecca's Empire, the Whitlams, Tex Perkins, the Avalanches, Dave Graney and Frank Bennett^[1]

At the ARIA Music Awards of 1998 the soundtrack was nominated for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album.^[2]

Bacharach has had his songs recorded by many artists. The track listing^[3] gives the original artist as well as the covering artist. It also includes timings^[4]

Track listing

Track	Title	Covering Artist	First Recorded by	Track Length
1	Always Something There to Remind Me	Rebecca's Empire	Lou Johnson	4:28
2	Walk On By	The Mavis's	Dionne Warwick	3:15
3	This Girl's in Love with You	Leonardo's Bride	Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass	4:48
4	Trains and Boats and Planes	The Dumb Earth	Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas	3:23
5	The Look of Love	Lisa Miller & Tex Perkins	Dusty Springfield	4:22
6	Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head	Cordrazine	B.J. Thomas	3:42
7	What's New Pussycat	Frank Bennett	Tom Jones	2:11
8	I'll Never Fall in Love Again	The Whitlams	Jerry Orbach	3:38
9	(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance	Regurgitator	Gene Pitney	2:18
10	Do You Know the Way to San Jose	The Avalanches	Dionne Warwick	5:00
11	Anyone Who Had a Heart	Kim Salmon and The Surrealists	Dionne Warwick	2:58
12	Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa	Chris Wilson	Gene Pitney	4:43
13	Wives and Lovers	Kiley Gaffney	Jack Jones	2:56
14	I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself	The Earthmen	Tommy Hunt	4:47
15	Make It Easy on Yourself	The Blackeyed Susans	Jerry Butler	4:39
16	(They Long to Be) Close to You	Billy Baxter	Richard Chamberlain	4:22
17	You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)	Kiva	Dionne Warwick	3:42
18	What the World Needs Now (Is Love)	Dave Graney and Clare Moore vs Dirty Three	Jackie DeShannon	4:24

References

artist credits from discography of Frank Bennett
ARIA Award previous winners. Web site: History Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album . Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). 12 July 2022.
Track and original/cover artist info from SecondHandSongs
timings from last.fm