Condition: Used
Dionne Warwick - The Very Best Of Dionne Warwicke
Label: United Artists Records
Catalog#: UA-LA 388-E
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Record: VG+ VG++ light scuff marks
Cover: VG+ VG++ minor wear, ringwear
Country: US
Released: 1974
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Soul
Tracklist
A1 Don't Make Me Over 2:51
A2 I Say A Little Prayer 3:04
A3 What The World Needs Now Is Love 3:14
A4 Make It Easy On Yourself 2:40
A5 You'll Never Get To Heaven 2:58
A6 Walk On By 2:58
B1 Alfie 2:43
B2 Anyone Who Had A Heart 2:58
B3 Are You There With Another Girl 2:50
B4 Reach Out For Me 2:52
B5 A Message To Michael 3:08
B6 Do You Know The Way To San Jose 2:50
Credits
Written-By – B. Bacharach/H. David
Best known for her partnership with Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Warwick ranks among the 40 biggest hit makers of the entire rock era (1955–1999), based on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Charts. According to Billboard Magazine, Warwick ranks second only to Aretha Franklin as the most charted female vocalist with 56 singles making the Billboard Hot 100 between 1962 and 1998.
Dionne Warwick possesses the great natural raw talent with the instincts neccessary to take on Bacarach-David's complicated works, and the result is amazing music. She glides from one octave to another, from hard hitting and edgy, to vunerable and soft, with security and ease. These songs have stood for decades and still captures the listener with its melodies, and the voice, and transports you like a spell binding story teller does.
""Walk on By" is a song composed by Burt Bacharach, with lyrics by Hal David for Dionne Warwick. It was recorded at the same December 1963 session that yielded "Anyone Who Had a Heart", which, in 1964, became Warwick's second Top Ten hit. Released in April of that year, "Walk on By" became a landmark single, reaching #6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The song also reached the top 10 in a brief run on Billboard's easy listening survey, and was a Number One hit on Cashbox's R and B chart (Billboard did not print rhythm and blues charts during 1964, the year of the song's peak performance.)"
Dionne Warwick - Do You Know the Way to San Jose
1968 International Smash
Dionne Warwick's 1968 million selling Grammy winning international smash hit the Billboard Top 10 in May 1968,
"San Jose" was also used as the theme in Dodge automobile commercials in 1968 and 1969, for the Charger and the Challenger. "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" became "Dodge Is Turning Up the Fever Now"! Another note of trivia: the background vocalists for this session were Valerie Simpson (Ashford & Simpson), Cissy Houston and DeeDee Warwick.
Dionne Warwick is not a rock and roll singer. She's not a jazz singer either. Rhythm and blues? Nope. A pop singer? No way. Did you ever tongue-kiss with someone who barfed a Singapore Sling bolus into your mouth, and then four years later you're with someone else and you feel good and you realize how beautiful it all was and then it's all melancholy/happiness, sort of? That's the kind of singer Dionne Warwick is. She's beautiful. Dionne, paired with Bacharach's string/horn/reed arrangements, comes up as a lyric mezzo-sopranoid par-excellence, melodious/expressiveness-wise
Dionne Warwick - I Say A Little Prayer
1967 Original Million Seller
Dionne Warwick - Walk On By
One of the all time great songs..
Dionne , Hal and Burt thank you for the years of great music.
Dionne Warwick - Anyone Who Had A Heart
1964 Original Top 10 Hit
Burt played a snippet of the tune for Dionne, and she fell in love with the tune and begged Hal to finish it. Hal, according to his wonderful 1968 book "What the World Needs Now and Other Love Lyrics", went to Burt's bedroom while Burt and Dionne rehearsed in the living room and finished the lyric. The tune was recorded at Bell Sound Studios in Manhattan in November 1963, days after the assassination of JFK, in the same session as Bacharach and David's "Walk On By" and "In the Land of Make Believe". Rumor has it Warwick nailed the tune in only one take.
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