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"Reach Out For Me"

FredHerrman

FredHerrman

Hi—looking for help identifying an instrumental arrangement of Burt Bacharach’s “Reach Out for Me.”
Provenance: taped off KBIG (Los Angeles) when I was a teen (late ’70s/early ’80s).
Style: lush strings + some brass with a more forceful rhythm section than Bacharach’s own 1967 A&M version. After recording it, I placed the audio onto a video that I did of me following some KWST stickers around my house, then primping in the mirror. I would love it if someone could identify the arrangement for me. Here is the link to the short video:
 
Sounds like a "custom music" cut that Bonneville, the program provider to KBIG, commissioned. Those are not available to consumers.
 
Bonneville (or whoever ended up with the rights to it) did release at least some of their Beautiful Music library online about 15 years ago. I remember a lot of John Fox recordings ending up on YouTube at the time, attributed to Bonneville Radio. But the collection seems to have disappeared since then, or at least I can't find it anymore.
 
kevtronics said:
Bonneville (or whoever ended up with the rights to it) did release at least some of their Beautiful Music library online about 15 years ago. I remember a lot of John Fox recordings ending up on YouTube at the time, attributed to Bonneville Radio. But the collection seems to have disappeared since then, or at least I can't find it anymore.
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Marlin Taylor is still "participating" via his website and known to correspond with people interested in the genre.

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I also had a considerable amount of instrumental versions of hit pop songs, but mine were done in Spain and were covers of Camilo Sesto, Julio Iglesias and Mocedades songs. In all my contracts, I was not given rights to public release (promotional albums, etc.) unless I paid additional fees. I suspect that Bonneville, SRP and the Independent Beautiful Music association had similar deals with the British and European producers of their "custom music" cuts.
 


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