A sophisticated songwriter whose melodious songs rank with the very best of his era,
Burt Bacharach
wrote an extraordinary number of memorable pop hits over a long period of time. In 1957, he scored his first chart hit with Marty Robbins's “The Story of My Life
”; 40 years later, he and
Elvis Costello
were nominated for an Academy Award for their collaboration on “God Give Me Strength,
” which appeared in the 1996 film, Grace of My...