NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Burt Bacharach on 15 December 2019. Burt Bacharach has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 21 episodes and was first played on 23 December 2012.

Burt Freeman Bacharach(May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023) was an American composer, songwriter, and musician who is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential figures of 20th-century popular music.

Bacharach studied music at McGill University and the Mannes School of Music. In the 1950s and the early 1960s he was the pianist, arranger and bandleader for Marlene Dietrich with whom he toured. He teamed with…