'Naked truths Elvis citings; What's new, Bacharach? A collaborator named Costello; Elvis, Burt collaborate.

From: The Boston Herald | Date: October 9, 1998| Author: Katz, Larry | Copyright information

What do you get when Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach go into the studio together?

The best album Dionne Warwick never made.

On their newly released collaboration "Painted From Memory," Costello and Bacharach hark back to the emotionally and musically extraordinary hits Bacharach wrote with lyricist Hal David for Warwick in the '60s, songs such as "Walk On By," "I Say A Little Prayer For You" and "Anyone Who Had a Heart."

For Bacharach, 70, the c...

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