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| Dionne Warwick Heartbreaker 1982 International Smash Hit |
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Over 100 Dionne Warwick tracks with rare photos on
Dibotis' Dionne Warwick Channel. Check them out!
"Heartbreaker", a 1982 hit written by The Bee
Gees' Barry, Maurice, and Robin Gibb, became one
of Dionne's biggest international hits, peaking on
Billboard's Hot 100 at #10 in January 1983 and #1
AC in the USA and #2 in the UK. Internationally,
the tune was also a smash in continential Europe,
Australia, Japan, South Africa, South America,
Eastern Europe, Canada, and Asia. The track was
taken from the album Heartbreaker which to date
has sold over 3 million internationally and earned
Dionne an RIAA USA gold record award for the
album. The album peaked at #25 on the Hot 100
Album Chart, #13 on the R&B Chart and #3 in the
UK. Dionne stated to Wesley Hyatt in his The
Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary
Hits that she was not fond of "Heartbreaker," but
recorded the tune because she trusted the Bee
Gees' judgment that it would be a hit. How did the
project come about? The legendary Clive Davis was
attending his aunt's wedding in Florida and spoke
with Barry Gibb. Barry mentioned that he had
always been a fan of Dionne's and Clive arranged
for Dionne and the BeeGees to discuss a project.
Dionne and the brothers Gibb hit it off and the
album "Heartbreaker" and the title single was
released in October 1982.
Tags : Dionne Warwick Heartbreaker Bee Gees BeeGees Gibb 1982 |
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Affichage : 327922
Durée : 257 s |
| Dionne Warwick I Say A Little Prayer 1967 Million Seller |
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Vintage (1962-1971) photo and ad montage covering
Dionne Warwick's tenure at Scepter Records and
featuring her huge international smash I Say A
Little Prayer. Burt Bacharach arranged, conducts
and is on piano. The tune was released as single
in Oct. 1967 after DJs all over the country
started playing the album cut from the Windows of
the World lp. I Say A Little Prayer was certified
RIAA Gold selling over 1 million in the USA alone
and peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles
chart in December 1967. The flip or B side Theme
from Valley of the Dolls was also a million seller
and rode the #2 position for 4 weeks on the
Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in February 1968.
I Say A Little Prayer/Theme From Valley of the
Dolls is one of the most successful double sided
hits of the Rock era. This is the rare unedited
version in which Burt Bacharach can be heard on
countoff. I Say A Little Prayer was also the first
RIAA certified million seller for Bacharach and
David.
Less than one year later, Aretha Franklin would
take her cover of "I Say A Little Prayer" to the
#10 spot on Billboards Hot 100 singles chart.
Writes Nick Tosches, the renowned writer, music
journalist, novelist, biographer and poet in the
January 7, 1972 issue of the rock magazine FUSION;
"...getting into Dionne Warwick is like finding
buried treasure. The Bacharach/David repertoire
which milady chooses to sing is so fascinatingly
cynical / fatalistic / stoical / emotional /
happy, simultaneously! It's pure emotion. There is
a whole lot more to emotion than some rock punk
bursting his dexedrine-staved blood vessels by
screaming "Baby I need you baby" into a
microphone. 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. If
you've never gotten into her, you ought to. Get
hep to Dionne Warwick. For your own sake."
Tags : Dionne Warwick Best Friend's Wedding 1960s Rare Burt Bacharach 1967 Say Little Prayer Aretha Oldies RRHOF Old School |
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Affichage : 440635
Durée : 199 s |
| Dionne Warwick Do You Know the Way to San Jose 1968 Top 10 |
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Dionne Warwick's 1968 million selling Grammy
winning international smash hit the top ten in May
1968 and was also a UK smash at #8. The flip side
"Let Me Be Lonely" also written by Bacharach and
David also hit the Billboard Hot 100, one of many
double sided hits Dionne recorded on Florence
Greenberg's Scepter label. Dionne charted an
astonishing eight Billboard Top Twenty hits in
less than 30 months: Alfie-#15 July 67; I Say A
Little Prayer-Nov 67-#4; Theme From Valley of the
Dolls-Feb 68-#2 (4 weeks); Do You Know the Way to
San Jose-May 68-#10; Promises, Promises-Oct
1968-#19; This Girl's In Love With You-March
1969-#7; You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling-#15-Sept
69; I'll Never Fall In Love Again-Jan 70-#6. In
addition, Warwick hit the Top 40 in the same time
period with Windows of the World-Sept 67, Who Is
Gonna Love Me-July 68, and The April Fools-July
69. In 1969 Dionne was the first African-American
Female Vocalist to win in the Grammy category Best
Contemporary-Pop Vocal Performance, Female for Do
You Know the Way to San Jose. "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.
Writes Nick Tosches, the renowned writer, music
journalist, novelist, biographer and poet in the
January 7, 1972 issue of the rock magazine FUSION;
"...getting into Dionne Warwick is like finding
buried treasure. The Bacharach/David repertoire
which milady chooses to sing is so fascinatingly
cynical / fatalistic / stoical / emotional /
happy, simultaneously! It's pure emotion. There is
a whole lot more to emotion than some rock punk
bursting his dexedrine-staved blood vessels by
screaming "Baby I need you baby" into a
microphone. 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. If
you've never gotten into her, you ought to. Get
hep to Dionne Warwick. For your own sake."
Tags : Dionne Warwick oldies Do You Know Way San Jose Burt Bacharach Hal David Grammy UK 1968 Dodge Challenger RRHOF Old School |
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Affichage : 235097
Durée : 178 s |
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