(JTA) — Songwriter Burt Bacharach,  who with his longtime lyricist Hal David turned out a  string of hits in the 1960s and ’70s — including “Alfie” and “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” — died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1928. … Continue reading Missouri born Burt Bacharach, sophisticated Jewish hitmaker of the ‘60s and ‘70s, dies at 94