Bert Bacharach, 85, a former syndicated columnist and father of Academy Award-winning musician and songwriter Burt Bacharach, died Thursday night at Roosevelt Hospital after a long illness, a hospital spokesman said yesterday.
Bacharach's columns of how-to household hints, "Now See Here," first appeared in the New York Journal-American. Bacharach, who lived in Manhattan, played football in the early days of professional ball and was an associate editor of Collier's magazine before he began his column.
No funeral services were planned, but a memorial service was scheduled Monday at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home, Madison Ave. and 81st St., between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Daily News
New York, New York
Saturday, September 17, 1983, p. 14
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Bert Bacharach, father of composer
The Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Bert Bacharach, a former professional football player, magazine editor, newspaper columnist and father of songwriter Burt Bacharach, has died at age 85.
Bacharach died Thursday night at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, according to Yvette Muiette, a hospital spokeswoman.
His son is known for dozens of popular hits, including Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, and Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
The elder Bacharach, who was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Atlantic City. N.J., had been hospitalized for three months.
Linda Dozoretz, a Los Angeles public relations agent, said Bacharach died of heart failure.
"He was just fading away," said Richard Gulley, a family spokesman in Los Angeles. "He had been in a coma for at least three weeks. He had no major illness, time just ran out."
Bacharach's first career was as a U.S. Marine during World War I. After getting out of the service at the end of the war, he played professional football for a short time in Baltimore.
Injuries forced him to give up that vocation and he turned to clothes buying. His first job in that field was with Woolf Bros, of Kansas City, Mo., in 1929.
From there he entered the journalism field, becoming associate editor at Collier's magazine in the early 1930s and later a columinst with the now-defunct New York Journal-American.
His column, titled "Now See Here," was eventually syndicated by King Features, running nationwide in newspapers five days a week between June 1960 and December 1978.
In 1970, Bacharach put together a book of his past columns and called it "How to Do Almost Everything". He also wrote "The Book For Men", which sold 70,000 copies in its first year of publication.
Miss Dozoretz said Bacharach was considered "an expert on fashion and life in New York City." At one point, he wrote a weekly syndicated fashion column for men.
Prior to his illness, Bacharach and his wife of 57 years, Irma, attended numerous Manhattan social functions.
His son, Burt, won two Academy Awards in the 1970s for his scoring of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the other for composing that movie's theme song, Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head.
The younger Bacharach also won an Oscar with his third wife, Carole Bayer Sager, for Arthur's Theme in 1982.
The elder Bacharach is survived by his wife, a portrait painter, his son; and a granddaughter, Lea Nikki, whose mother is actress Angie Dickinson.
Fort Lauderdale News
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Saturday, September 17, 1983, p. 6-B
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Bacharach's columns of how-to household hints, "Now See Here," first appeared in the New York Journal-American. Bacharach, who lived in Manhattan, played football in the early days of professional ball and was an associate editor of Collier's magazine before he began his column.
No funeral services were planned, but a memorial service was scheduled Monday at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home, Madison Ave. and 81st St., between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Daily News
New York, New York
Saturday, September 17, 1983, p. 14
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Bert Bacharach, father of composer
The Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Bert Bacharach, a former professional football player, magazine editor, newspaper columnist and father of songwriter Burt Bacharach, has died at age 85.
Bacharach died Thursday night at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, according to Yvette Muiette, a hospital spokeswoman.
His son is known for dozens of popular hits, including Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, and Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
The elder Bacharach, who was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Atlantic City. N.J., had been hospitalized for three months.
Linda Dozoretz, a Los Angeles public relations agent, said Bacharach died of heart failure.
"He was just fading away," said Richard Gulley, a family spokesman in Los Angeles. "He had been in a coma for at least three weeks. He had no major illness, time just ran out."
Bacharach's first career was as a U.S. Marine during World War I. After getting out of the service at the end of the war, he played professional football for a short time in Baltimore.
Injuries forced him to give up that vocation and he turned to clothes buying. His first job in that field was with Woolf Bros, of Kansas City, Mo., in 1929.
From there he entered the journalism field, becoming associate editor at Collier's magazine in the early 1930s and later a columinst with the now-defunct New York Journal-American.
His column, titled "Now See Here," was eventually syndicated by King Features, running nationwide in newspapers five days a week between June 1960 and December 1978.
In 1970, Bacharach put together a book of his past columns and called it "How to Do Almost Everything". He also wrote "The Book For Men", which sold 70,000 copies in its first year of publication.
Miss Dozoretz said Bacharach was considered "an expert on fashion and life in New York City." At one point, he wrote a weekly syndicated fashion column for men.
Prior to his illness, Bacharach and his wife of 57 years, Irma, attended numerous Manhattan social functions.
His son, Burt, won two Academy Awards in the 1970s for his scoring of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the other for composing that movie's theme song, Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head.
The younger Bacharach also won an Oscar with his third wife, Carole Bayer Sager, for Arthur's Theme in 1982.
The elder Bacharach is survived by his wife, a portrait painter, his son; and a granddaughter, Lea Nikki, whose mother is actress Angie Dickinson.
Fort Lauderdale News
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Saturday, September 17, 1983, p. 6-B
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Bert Bacharach, 85, a former syndicated columnist and father of Academy Award-winning musician and songwriter Burt Bacharach, died Thursday night at Roosevelt Hospital after a long illness, a hospital spokesman said yesterday.
Bacharach's columns of how-to household hints, "Now See Here," first appeared in the New York Journal-American. Bacharach, who lived in Manhattan, played football in the early days of professional ball and was an associate editor of Collier's magazine before he began his column.
No funeral services were planned, but a memorial service was scheduled Monday at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home, Madison Ave. and 81st St., between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Daily News
New York, New York
Saturday, September 17, 1983, p. 14
._______
Bert Bacharach, father of composer
The Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Bert Bacharach, a former professional football player, magazine editor, newspaper columnist and father of songwriter Burt Bacharach, has died at age 85.
Bacharach died Thursday night at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, according to Yvette Muiette, a hospital spokeswoman.
His son is known for dozens of popular hits, including Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, and Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
The elder Bacharach, who was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Atlantic City. N.J., had been hospitalized for three months.
Linda Dozoretz, a Los Angeles public relations agent, said Bacharach died of heart failure.
"He was just fading away," said Richard Gulley, a family spokesman in Los Angeles. "He had been in a coma for at least three weeks. He had no major illness, time just ran out."
Bacharach's first career was as a U.S. Marine during World War I. After getting out of the service at the end of the war, he played professional football for a short time in Baltimore.
Injuries forced him to give up that vocation and he turned to clothes buying. His first job in that field was with Woolf Bros, of Kansas City, Mo., in 1929.
From there he entered the journalism field, becoming associate editor at Collier's magazine in the early 1930s and later a columinst with the now-defunct New York Journal-American.
His column, titled "Now See Here," was eventually syndicated by King Features, running nationwide in newspapers five days a week between June 1960 and December 1978.
In 1970, Bacharach put together a book of his past columns and called it "How to Do Almost Everything". He also wrote "The Book For Men", which sold 70,000 copies in its first year of publication.
Miss Dozoretz said Bacharach was considered "an expert on fashion and life in New York City." At one point, he wrote a weekly syndicated fashion column for men.
Prior to his illness, Bacharach and his wife of 57 years, Irma, attended numerous Manhattan social functions.
His son, Burt, won two Academy Awards in the 1970s for his scoring of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the other for composing that movie's theme song, Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head.
The younger Bacharach also won an Oscar with his third wife, Carole Bayer Sager, for Arthur's Theme in 1982.
The elder Bacharach is survived by his wife, a portrait painter, his son; and a granddaughter, Lea Nikki, whose mother is actress Angie Dickinson.
Fort Lauderdale News
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Saturday, September 17, 1983, p. 6-B
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Bacharach's columns of how-to household hints, "Now See Here," first appeared in the New York Journal-American. Bacharach, who lived in Manhattan, played football in the early days of professional ball and was an associate editor of Collier's magazine before he began his column.
No funeral services were planned, but a memorial service was scheduled Monday at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home, Madison Ave. and 81st St., between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Daily News
New York, New York
Saturday, September 17, 1983, p. 14
._______
Bert Bacharach, father of composer
The Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Bert Bacharach, a former professional football player, magazine editor, newspaper columnist and father of songwriter Burt Bacharach, has died at age 85.
Bacharach died Thursday night at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, according to Yvette Muiette, a hospital spokeswoman.
His son is known for dozens of popular hits, including Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, and Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
The elder Bacharach, who was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Atlantic City. N.J., had been hospitalized for three months.
Linda Dozoretz, a Los Angeles public relations agent, said Bacharach died of heart failure.
"He was just fading away," said Richard Gulley, a family spokesman in Los Angeles. "He had been in a coma for at least three weeks. He had no major illness, time just ran out."
Bacharach's first career was as a U.S. Marine during World War I. After getting out of the service at the end of the war, he played professional football for a short time in Baltimore.
Injuries forced him to give up that vocation and he turned to clothes buying. His first job in that field was with Woolf Bros, of Kansas City, Mo., in 1929.
From there he entered the journalism field, becoming associate editor at Collier's magazine in the early 1930s and later a columinst with the now-defunct New York Journal-American.
His column, titled "Now See Here," was eventually syndicated by King Features, running nationwide in newspapers five days a week between June 1960 and December 1978.
In 1970, Bacharach put together a book of his past columns and called it "How to Do Almost Everything". He also wrote "The Book For Men", which sold 70,000 copies in its first year of publication.
Miss Dozoretz said Bacharach was considered "an expert on fashion and life in New York City." At one point, he wrote a weekly syndicated fashion column for men.
Prior to his illness, Bacharach and his wife of 57 years, Irma, attended numerous Manhattan social functions.
His son, Burt, won two Academy Awards in the 1970s for his scoring of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the other for composing that movie's theme song, Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head.
The younger Bacharach also won an Oscar with his third wife, Carole Bayer Sager, for Arthur's Theme in 1982.
The elder Bacharach is survived by his wife, a portrait painter, his son; and a granddaughter, Lea Nikki, whose mother is actress Angie Dickinson.
Fort Lauderdale News
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Saturday, September 17, 1983, p. 6-B
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