Dionne Warwick
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Biography
[Edit]It is easier to define Dionne Warwick by what she isn't rather than what she is. Although she grew up singing in church, she is not a gospel singer. Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan are clear influences, but she is not a jazz singer. R&B is also part of her background, but she is not really a soul singer, either, at least not in the sense that Aretha Franklin is. Sophisticated is a word often used to describe her musical approach and the music she sings, but she is not a singer of standards such as Lena Horne or Nancy Wilson. What is she, then? She is a pop singer of a sort that perhaps could only have emerged out of the Brill Building environment of post-Elvis Presley, pre-Beatles urban pop in the early '60s. That's when she hooked up with Burt Bacharach and Hal David, songwriters and producers who wrote their unusually complicated songs for her aching yet detached alto voice. Warwick is inescapably associated with those songs, even though she managed to build a career after leaving Bacharach and David that drew upon their style for other memorable recordings, and she remains a unique figure in popular music.
Marie Dionne Warrick was born into a gospel music family. Her father was a gospel record promoter for Chess Records and her mother managed the Drinkard Singers, a gospel group consisting of her relatives. She first raised her voice in song at age six at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, and soon after was a member of the choir. As a teenager, she formed a singing group called the Gospelaires with her sister Dee Dee and her aunt Cissy Houston (later the mother of the late Whitney Houston). After graduating from high school in 1959, she earned a music scholarship to the Hartt College of Music in Hartford, Connecticut, but she also spent time with her group recording background vocals on sessions in New York. The Gospelaires are said to be present on such well-known recordings as Ben E. King's "Spanish Harlem" and "Stand by Me." They were at a Drifters session working on a song called "Mexican Divorce" composed by Burt Bacharach when Bacharach, attending the session, suggested Warrick might do some demos for him. She did, singing songs he had written with lyricist Hal David. Bacharach and David pitched one of the songs to Florence Greenberg, head of the small independent Scepter Records label, and Greenberg liked the demo singer enough to sign her as a recording artist. Bacharach and David wrote and produced her first single, "Don't Make Me Over," in 1962. When the record was released, the performer credit contained a typo; it read "Dionne Warwick" instead of "Dionne Warrick," and she kept the new name. (Her sister Dee Dee eventually became Dee Dee Warwick as well.)
"Don't Make Me Over" peaked in the Top 20 of the pop charts in early 1963, also reaching the Top Five of the R&B charts. Warwick's subsequent singles were not as successful, but in early 1964 she reached the pop and R&B Top Ten and the Top Five of the easy listening charts with "Anyone Who Had a Heart," which was also her first record to reach the charts in the U.K. (There, such singers as Cilla Black and Dusty Springfield sometimes would cover her records before her own versions had a chance to become hits.) "Walk on By" followed it into the Top Ten of the pop, easy listening, and U.K. charts in the spring of 1964, and it hit number one on the R&B charts. By then, the Beatles had arrived on the American scene, followed by the British Invasion, and for a while, pop artists like Warwick took a beating on the charts. Nevertheless, the singer continued to place singles and LPs in the rankings over the next couple of years, and in the spring of 1966 she returned to the Top Ten of the pop charts and the Top Five of the R&B charts with "Message to Michael." Other, more modest hits followed, including the most successful U.S. recording of the title song from the movie Alfie, which reached the R&B Top Five and the pop Top 20 in the spring of 1967. That summer, Warwick topped the R&B LP charts with her gold-selling Here Where There Is Love album, and by the fall Scepter had amassed enough chart singles to issue Dionne Warwick's Golden Hits, Pt. 1, her first album to reach the pop Top Ten.
Curiously, Warwick's career reached a new level with a single not written by Bacharach and David, although they produced it. It was "(Theme From) Valley of the Dolls," written by André and Dory Previn and issued at the end of 1967. The record reached the Top Five of the pop, R&B, and easy listening charts. Its B-side, Bacharach and David's "I Say a Little Prayer," reached the Top Five of the pop and R&B charts, helping the single become a gold record, and the Valley of the Dolls LP also made the Top Five of the pop and R&B charts and went gold. With that, Warwick was on a roll. Her next single, "Do You Know the Way to San José," reached the pop Top Ten and the R&B and easy listening Top Five in the spring of 1968 and won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Performance, Female. In the winter of 1969 her version of "This Guy's in Love with You," retitled "This Girl's in Love with You," made the pop and R&B Top Ten and the easy listening Top Five, and in early 1970 "I'll Never Fall in Love Again," from Bacharach and David's score for the Broadway musical Promises, Promises, made the pop Top Ten and topped the easy listening charts, bringing her another Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Female.
In 1971, Warwick added an "e" to the end of her name on the advice of a numerologist, retaining the new spelling until 1975. She also left Scepter Records and signed a deal with the major label Warner Bros. that included Bacharach and David as her writer and producer. The team produced the 1972 album Dionne, which was a modest seller, but then Bacharach and David split up in the wake of the critical and commercial failure of their work on a musical remake of the film Lost Horizon in 1973. Due to her contractual commitment, Warwick was forced to sue her old partners. A settlement was reached, but they would not work together again for many years and Warwick's career suffered.
Warwick bounced back with "Then Came You," a song she recorded with the Spinners, which topped the pop and R&B charts and reached the Top Five of the easy listening charts in October 1974, going gold in the process. It proved to be a one-off success, but Warwick (now without the "e") signed to Arista Records in 1979 and returned to the Top Five of the pop adult contemporary (formerly easy listening) charts with "I'll Never Love This Way Again," produced by labelmate Barry Manilow and featured on her first platinum-selling album, another LP simply titled Dionne. "Deja Vu," also from the album, was a Top 20 pop and number one adult contemporary hit. "I'll Never Love This Way Again" won Warwick her third Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female; "Deja Vu" won her her fourth for Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance, Female.
Warwick topped the adult contemporary charts in 1980 with "No Night So Long," but her next across-the-board hit did not come until she hooked up with the Bee Gees for her 1982 album Heartbreaker. Barry Gibb produced the gold-selling LP and the three Gibb brothers wrote the title song, which made the pop Top Ten and topped the adult contemporary charts. In 1985, Warwick was reconciled with Bacharach and she organized a charity recording of his and Carole Bayer Sager's song "That's What Friends Are For" to combat AIDS, featuring Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder, in addition to herself. The record topped the pop, R&B, and adult contemporary charts in the winter of 1985-1986, the album Friends on which it was included went gold, and the song earned Warwick her fifth Grammy, for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. In 1987, Warwick topped the adult contemporary charts and reached the Top Five of the R&B charts with "Love Power," a duet with Jeffrey Osborne that was another Bacharach/Sager composition.
Warwick enjoyed less commercial success after the late '80s. She parted ways with Arista Records after her 1995 album Aquarela do Brazil. In 1998 she issued Dionne Sings Dionne, an album consisting largely of re-recordings of her hits, on River North Records. Her first collection of holiday standards, My Favorite Time of the Year, was released in 2004 on EMI. Two years later she landed on the Concord label with My Friends & Me, a collection of duets that revisited her classic recordings with Cyndi Lauper, Kelis, Reba McEntire, and Wynonna Judd among her guests. Why We Sing, her first gospel album in nearly 40 years, landed on the Rhino label in 2008, and in 2011 she would star in Donald Trump's The Celebrity Apprentice 4, a reality television competition series that pitted her against fellow contestants like David Cassidy, Lil Jon, and Meat Loaf. Now, a new album of Bacharach and David material, arrived in 2012 on the H&I Music label and marked her 50th anniversary as a recording artist. Feels So Good, an album of duets with artists such as Alicia Keys, Ziggy Marley, and Stevie Wonder, was released early in 2014.
Title: Hidden Gems: the Best Of Dionne Warwick, Vol. 2 (US Release)
Artist: Dionne Warwick
Genre: Pop
Title: Dionne Warwick's Greatest Motion Picture Hits
Artist: Dionne Warwick
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Pop
Title: Dionne Warwick Sings The Bacharach & David Songbook
Artist: Dionne Warwick
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Pop
Title: Odds & Ends Scepter Records Rarities
Artist: Dionne Warwick
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Punk Rock, Pop
Title: Anyone Who Had a Heart (Remastered) - Single
Artist: Dionne Warwick
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Pop
Collections
Title: Love Lyrics Songs (CD1)
Title: The Classic Chanteuse 2020
Genre: Soul, Vocal Jazz, Pop
Title: Now 100 Hits The Legends (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Rock, New Wave, Rock & Roll, Punk, Disco, Acoustic
Title: Solid 80s Gold
Title: Now 100 Hits The Legends 2020 (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rock, Punk Rock, Pop
Title: 60 Top Hits From The 60s (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock & Roll, Pop
Title: 60 Top Hits From The 60s (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock & Roll, Pop
Title: Greatest Ever Golden Anthems (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rock, Punk Rock, Pop
Title: Respect Your Soul
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Funk
Title: Soul Classics: 60 Classics From The Legends Of Soul (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: 100 Tracks Classic Oldies Playlist (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Rock & Roll, Rockabilly, Ska
Title: Dream Lover - 60's Ballads
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: 80s Sweet Lost Dance (CD2)
Genre: Freestyle Music, Hip Hop/R&B, Dancefloor, Disco, Dance Pop, Synth Pop, Funk
Title: Soul Chronology LIVE! The Sixties 1962-66
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: Greatest Ever: Classic Soul (CD1)
Genre: Blues, Rock, Garage Rock, Rock & Roll, Disco, Pop Rap, Synth Pop, Funk, Psychedelic
Title: The Best 80s Car Songs In The World Ever (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rock, Punk Rock, Dancefloor, Pop, Dance Pop
Title: Now Decades Of Love (CD3)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Punk Rock, Pop
Title: 60's UK Hits (CD1)
Title: 60's UK Hits (CD2)
Title: 100 Oldies Vol. 1 - The Sound Of My Life (CD1)
Genre: Pop
Title: 100 Oldies Vol. 2 - The Sound Of My Life (CD3)
Genre: Pop
Title: Greatest Ever: Feel Good Anthems (CD2)
Genre: Freestyle Music, Soul, Blues, New Wave, Disco, Teen Pop, Synth Pop
Title: Soul Serenades
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Gospel, Rock, Disco, Funk, Classical
Title: Greatest Ever Jukebox Legends 4CD (CD3)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Gospel, Rock & Roll, World Music, Country, Rockabilly, Classical, Folk
Title: Love Makes The World Go Round: Detroit Soul Classics 2021
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: US Soul Singles Chart Hits Of The 70s (CD1)
Genre: Downtempo, Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Rock, Funk, Classical
Title: US Soul Singles Chart Hits Of The 70s (CD2)
Genre: Downtempo, Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Rock, Funk, Classical
Title: 70's US Hits (CD2)
Title: Best Soul 2021
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Gospel, Funk, Classical, Easy Listening
Title: Greatest Ever Soul Ballads 2021
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Rock, Rock & Roll, Punk Rock, Funk
Title: Winter Mood Acoustic 2021
Genre: Pop
Title: NOW The 60s Girls Then He Kissed Me (CD4)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Gospel, Rock, Country, Rockabilly, Acoustic, Indie, Classical
Title: 70s Pop Nuggets
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: NOW The 60s Girls Then He Kissed Me (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Gospel, Rock, Country, Rockabilly, Acoustic, Indie, Classical
Title: Sweet Soul Music 2021 (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Country, Pop, Acoustic, Easy Listening
Title: DMC DJ Essentials 25 Christmas Mixes 2019
Genre: Hard NRG, House, Jazz, Rock, Punk Rock, Synth Pop, Classical, K-Pop, Easy Listening
Title: Soul Love Songs 2021
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Soul Jazz, Rock, Pop Rock, Bossanova
Title: That 60's Soul
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Rhythm & Soul 100 (CD2)
Title: Baker Street - 100 Classics From The 70's (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Punk, Punk Rock, Pop, Alternative
Title: Greatest Hits Ever (CD2)
Genre: Gospel, Rock, Reggae Fusion, World Music, Disco, Pop, Alternative, Indie, Folk
Title: Soul Love: 25 Gorgeous Tracks For Lovers, Vol. 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: Dreams - Magic 70's (CD2)
Title: Soul Love: 25 Gorgeous Tracks For Lovers, Vol. 3
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: Soul Love: 25 Gorgeous Tracks For Lovers, Vol. 4
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: Soul - Vintage Classics
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: 60s Hits Essentials (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Rock & Roll, Pop, Funk, Classical
Title: Sweet Soul
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Gospel, Jazz, Rock, World Music, Classical, Smooth Jazz
Title: Absolute 60's! (CD1)
Title: Absolute 70's! (CD2)
Title: A Visit To 1960s - Vol. 2
Title: 100 Greatest Women In Pop (CD1)
Genre: Pop
Title: Greatest 60's Pop
Title: NOW Yearbook 1983 (CD2)
Genre: Post Disco, Hip Hop/R&B, Blues, Rock, New Wave, World Music, Country, Disco, Synth Pop, Funk, Indie, Folk
Title: Greatest Ever Decade: The Sixties (CD4)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Punk Rock, Pop
Title: Young, Gifted & Black - Soul & Funk Classics
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: FM Soul 70s
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: NOW That's What I Call Gold (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Punk Rock, Pop
Title: Mellow 70's Gold (CD1)
Title: Mellow 70's Gold (CD2)
Title: Essential Love Songs 2021
Title: Summer Soul: Classic Soul, R&B, Gospel And Blues Hits
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Gospel
Title: 60s Love Song Essentials 2021 (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Soul Jazz, Rock, World Music, Pop, Classical, Folk, Easy Listening
Title: '70s Soul Divas
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Now Decades Of Soul 2021 (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: '60s Dance Party Essentials (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rock, Punk Rock, Dancefloor, Pop, Dance Pop
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Artist: Burt Bacharach
Genre: Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Rock, Pop, Alternative, Theatre/Soundtrack
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Artist: Gloria Gaynor
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: The Essential Johnny Mathis
Artist: Johnny Mathis
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Rock, Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Dave Clark's TIME, the Musical - Act 2 (Remastered)
Artist: Dave Clarke
Genre: Rock, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Dave Clark's Time, the Musical - Act 1 (Remastered)
Artist: Dave Clarke
Genre: Rock, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: More Friends - Small World Big Band, Vol. 2
Artist: Jools Holland
Genre: Jazz, Rock, Rock & Roll
Title: Isn't She Great (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Artist: Burt Bacharach
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Ultimate Isaac Hayes - Can You Dig It?
Artist: Isaac Hayes
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Theatre/Soundtrack, Funk
Title: The Woman In Red (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Artist: Stevie Wonder
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: A Tenors Christmas
Artist: Plácido Domingo / Placido Domingo, Sissel, Luciano Pavarotti, Richard Tucker, Jose Carreras
Genre: Pop, Traditional Pop Music, Theatre/Soundtrack, Opera
Title: José Augusto - 1992 / Jose Augusto - 1992
Artist: José Augusto / Jose Augusto
Genre: World Music, Latin, Pop
Title: Mario Pelchat Michel Legrand
Artist: Michel Legrand, Mario Pelchat
Genre: Rock, Pop, Alternative
Title: Discover Beyond: Johnny Mathis
Artist: Johnny Mathis
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Rock, Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Jools Holland - More Friends - Small World Big Band Volume Two
Artist: Jools Holland
Genre: Pop
Title: Love Train: The Sound of Philadelphia
Artist: Various
Genre: Electronica, Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Dancefloor, Disco, Pop
Title: Endless Love (Greatest Soul Lovesongs)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: Celebration in Vienna (Christmas in Vienna II)
Artist: Plácido Domingo / Placido Domingo
Genre: Classical
Title: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto: The Musical Companion
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Magic Moments: The Definitive Burt Bacharach Collection (Disc 1)
Artist: Burt Bacharach
Genre: Pop
Title: Magic Moments: The Definitive Burt Bacharach Collection (Disc 3)
Artist: Burt Bacharach
Genre: Pop
Title: Magic Moments: The Definitive Burt Bacharach Collection (Disc 2)
Artist: Burt Bacharach
Genre: Pop
Title: The Look Of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection (CD3)
Artist: Burt Bacharach
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Country Rock, Pop, Lounge