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Release Date: 19 Feb 2007
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Label: Collectors' Choice
Format: CD (six box set)
Volumes: 1

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Presenting Dionne Warwick

Dionne’s 1963 debut album didn’t just mark the emergence of a brand-new vocal star, but
also the first full flowering of the Bacharach-David-Warwick partnership, which combined
for a full nine of the album’s 12 tracks.
Track listing: This Empty Place; Wishin’ and Hopin’• (later a huge hit for Dusty
Springfield); I Cry Alone; Zippety Doo Dah; Make the Music Play; If You See Bill; Don’t
Make Me Over; It’s Love That Really Counts; Unlucky; I Smiled Yesterday; Make It Easy
on Yourself, and The Love of a Boy.


Anyone Who Had A Heart
Dionne Warwick
Dionne’s second album scored a Top Ten hit with its title track, and featured its fair share
of Bacharach/David tunes (including three repeats from her first album) plus some
expertly-chosen contributions from other songwriters like Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman.
Track listing: Anyone Who Had a Heart; Shall I Tell Her; Don’t Make Me Over; I Cry
Alone; Getting Ready for the Heartbreak; Oh Lord, What Are You Doing to Me; Any Old
Time of Day; Mr. Heartbreak; Put Yourself in My Place; I Could Make Him Mine; This
Empty Place, and Please Make Him Love Me. The complete 1964 release!



Make Way For
Dionne Warwick
An apt title, as this 1964 LP was Dionne’s first charting release, powered by Walk on By
and a host of other Bacharach-David classics on board. In fact, this just may be Dionne’s
best album; check out this list of songs
Track listing: Walk on By; A House Is Not a Home; People; They Long to Be Close to
You (yup, the song that the Carpenters had a huge hit with ten years later); The Last One
to Be Loved; Land of Make Believe; Reach Out for Me; You’ll Never Get to Heaven;
Wishin’ and Hopin’; I Smiled Yesterday; Get Rid of Him, and Make the Night a Little
Longer. A classic!


Sensitive Sound Of Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick
Dionne’s fourth album marked a slight turn towards adult pop, with seven of the 11 songs
Bacharach-David compositions, some of them lesser-known gems in their songbook
waiting to be discovered!
Track listing: Unchained Melody; Who Can I Turn To; How Many Days of Sadness; Is
There Another Way to Love You; Where Can I Go Without You; You Can Have Him•
(Dionne’s hit remake of Roy Hamilton’s smash You Can Have Her);Wives & Lovers; Don’t
Say I Didn’t Tell You So; Only the Strong, Only the Brave; Forever My Love, and That’s
Not the Answer. The complete 1965 release!


Here I Am
Dionne Warwick
This 1965 release marked yet another milestone in the Bacharach-David-Warwick
partnership, as a full 9 of its 12 tracks were penned by the songwriting team.
Track listing: In Between the Heartaches; Here I Am; If I Ever Make You Cry; Lookin’
with My Eyes; Once in a Lifetime; This Little Light; Don’t Go Breaking My Heart; Window
Wishing; Long Day, Short Night; Are You There (with Another Girl); How Can I Hurt You?•
and I Love You Porgy.

Dionne Warwick In Paris
Europe was actually quicker to catch on to the enormity of Dionne's talent than were
American audiences. She was particularly big in France, where they dubbed her "The
Black Pearl," so it was logical that her first live album would be recorded at the Olympia
Theater in Paris, the very venue that hosted her first European concert. This January 18,
1966 show won raves from the local press; ignore the suspicously canned-sounding
applause and concentrate on the performance!
Track listing: I Love Paris; C'est Si Bon; Message to Michael; A House Is Not a Home;
Walk on By; Oh, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah• (with French star Sacha Distel); The Good LIfe; La
Vie En Rose; You’ll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart), and a rockin’ version
of What’d I Say!

Here Where There Is Love
Dionne’s first Top 20-charting album! In fact, this baby went all the way to #1 on the R&B
charts, thanks in part to a trio of Bacharach-David masterpieces
Track listing: Trains and Boats and Planes; Alfie, and I Just Don’t Know What to Do with
Myself (later a hit for Dusty Springfield and a memorable cover for the White Stripes!).
Also here: Go with Love; What the World Needs Now Is Love (which Jackie DeShannon
scored big with); Here Where There Is Love; As Long as He Needs Me; I Wish You Love;
(I Never Knew) What You Were Up to, and Blowin’ in the Wind. The complete 1966
release!


On Stage & In The Movies
Though this 1967 release devoted to show tunes seems like a radical (or conservative)
turn for the great soul-pop singer, it wasn’t really that big of a departure; Dionne had
tackled Broadway and Hollywood fare before. What was a big departure was that this
album featured nary a Bacharach-David tune, but rest assured that the duo’s production
touch is evident on most of these tracks. And it's a kick to hear Dionne do songs that
more “straight” singers made standards; she beats ’em at their own game!
Track listing: Summertime; You’ll Never Walk Alone; My Favorite Things; Something
Wonderful; One Hand, One Heart; With These Hands; The Way You Look Tonite; He
(She) Loves Me; I Believe in You; Baubles, Bangles & Beads; Anything You Can D, and
My Ship


Magic Of Believing
Dionne was so hot on the pop charts in 1968 with such hits as •Do You Know the Way to
San Jose• and •(Theme from) Valley of the Dolls• that she could afford to do such an
avowedly noncommercial project as this tribute to her gospel roots! And those roots were
deep; her mother, Lee Warrick, was a founding member of the Drinkard Singers, a gospel
group that also included Cissy Houston (mother of Whitney), and Dionne got her start
singing in a gospel group called the Gospelaires along with her sister Dee Dee.
Track listing: Battle Hymn of the Republic; Somebody Bigger Than You and I; Jesus
Will; Old Landmark; The Magic of Believing; Blessed Be the Name of the Lord; Grace;
Steal Away; In the Garden, and Who Do You Think It Was.


Love At First Sight
Dionne’s association with Warner Bros. came to an end with this 1977 album, which
featured the vaunted production skills of Grass Roots producer Steve Barri and top
session keyboardist Michael Omartian (the Bacharach/David “marriage” having dissolved
several years prior in bitter acrimony). But the inclusion of songs by such Brill Building
folks as Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and Evie Sands ensures that this album harkens
back to the classic Warwick sound.
Track listing: Keepin’ My Head Above Water; Love in the Afternoon; A Long Way to Go;
Do I Have to Cry; Don’t Ever Take Your Love Away; One Thing on My Mind; Early
Morning Strangers; Livin’ It Up Is Startin’ to Get Me Down; Since You Stayed Here, and
Do You Believe in Love at First Sight.


(Collectors' Choice/RSK)