SOUND PROJECTIONS

AN ONLINE QUARTERLY MUSIC MAGAZINE

EDITOR: KOFI NATAMBU

SPRING, 2016

VOLUME TWO NUMBER THREE

WAYNE SHORTER

Featuring the Musics and Aesthetic Visions of:

LEO SMITH
March 26-April 1

AHMAD JAMAL
April 2-8

DIONNE WARWICK
April 9-15

LEE MORGAN
April 16-22

BILL DIXON
April 23-29

SAM COOKE
April 30-May 6

MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS
May 7-13

BILLY HARPER
May 14-20

SISTER ROSETTA THARPE
May 21-27

QUINCY JONES
May 28-June 3

BESSIE SMITH
June 4-10

ROBERT JOHNSON
June 11-17

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Dionne Warwick

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Warwick’s career, which currently celebrates 50 years, has established her as an international music icon and concert act.

Scintillating, soothing and sensual best describe the familiar and legendary voice of five-time Grammy Award winning music legend, DIONNE WARWICK, who has become a cornerstone of American pop music and culture. Warwick’s career, which currently celebrates 50 years, has established her as an international music icon and concert act. She has earned more than sixty charted hit songs and sold over 100 million records. She began singing professionally in 1961 after being discovered by a young songwriting team, Burt Bacharach and Hal David. She had her first hit in 1962 with “Don’t Make Me Over.” Less than a decade later, she had released more than 18 consecutive Top 100 singles, including her classic Bacharach/David recordings, “Walk on By,” “Anyone Who Had a Heart,” “Message to Michael,”"Promises Promises,” “A House is Not a Home,” “Alfie,” “Say a Little Prayer,” “This Girl’s in Love With You,” “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again,” “Reach Out For Me,” and the theme from “Valley of the Dolls.”

Warwick, and her songwriting team of Burt Bacharach & Hal David, racked up more than 30 hit singles, and close to 20 best-selling albums, during their first decade together.

Warwick received her first Grammy Award in 1968 for her mega-hit, “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?” and a second Grammy in 1970 for the best-selling album, “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again.” She became the first African-American solo female artist of her generation to win the prestigious award for Best Contemporary Female Vocalist Performance. This award was only presented to one other legend, Miss Ella Fitzgerald.

Other African-American female recording artists certainly earned their share of crossover pop and R&B hits during the 1960′s, however, Warwick preceded the mainstream success of her musical peers by coming the first such artist to rack up a dozen consecutive Top 100 hit singles from 1963-1966.

Warwick’s performance at the Olympia Theater in Paris, during a 1963 concert starring the legendary Marlene Dietrich, skyrocketed her to international stardom. As Warwick established herself as a major force in American contemporary music, she gained popularity among European audiences as well. In 1968, she became the first African-American female artist to appear before the Queen of England at a Royal Command Performance. Since then, Warwick has performed before numerous kings, queens, presidents and heads of state.

Warwick’s recordings of songs such as “A House is not a Home,” “Alfie,” ”Valley of the Dolls,” and “The April Fools,” made her a pioneer as one of the first female artists to popularize classic movie themes.

Warwick began singing during her childhood years in East Orange, New Jersey, initially in church. Occasionally, she sang as a soloist and fill-in voice for the renowned Drinkard Singers, a group comprised of her mother Lee, along with her aunts and uncles. During her teens, Warwick and her sister Dee Dee started their own gospel group, The Gospelaires.

Warwick attended The Hartt College of Music in Hartford, Connecticut, and during that time, began making trips to New York to do regular session work. She sang behind many of the biggest recording stars of the 1960′s including Dinah Washington, Sam Taylor, Brook Benton, Chuck Jackson, and Solomon Burke, among many others. It was at this time that a young composer named Burt Bacharach heard her sing during a session for The Drifters and asked her to sing on demos of some new songs he was writing with his new lyricist Hal David. In 1962, one such demo was presented to Scepter Records, which launched a hit-filled 12 year association with the label.

Known as the artist who “bridged the gap,” Warwick’s soulful blend of pop, gospel and R&B music transcended race, culture, and musical boundaries. In 1970, Warwick received her second Grammy Award for the best-selling album, “I’ll Never Fall In Love Again,” and began her second decade of hits with Warner Bros. Records. She recorded half a dozen albums, with top producers such as Thom Bell, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Jerry Ragavoy, Steve Barri, and Michael Omartian. In 1974, she hit the top of the charts with “Then Came You,” a milliion-selling duet with The Spinners. She then teamed up with Isaac Hayes for a highly successful world tour, “A Man and a Woman.”

In 1976, Warwick signed with Arista Records, beginning a third decade of hit-making. Arista Records label-mate Barry Manilow produced her first Platinum-selling album, “Dionne,” which included back-to-back hits “I’ll Never Love This Way Again,” and “Déjà vu.” Both recordings earned Grammy Awards, making Warwick the first female artist to win the Best Female Pop and Best Female R&B Performance Awards.

Warwick’s 1982 album, “Heartbreaker,” co-produced by Barry Gibb and the Bee Gees, became an international chart-topper. In 1985, she reunited with composer Burt Bacharach and longtime friends Gladys Knight, Elton John and Stevie Wonder to record the landmark song “That’s What Friends Are For,” which became a number one hit record around the world and the first recording dedicated to raising awareness and major funds for the AIDS cause in support of AMFAR, which Warwick continues to support.

Throughout the 1980′s and 1990′s, Warwick collaborated with many of her musical peers, including Johnny Mathis, Smokey Robinson, Luther Vandross, Jeffrey Osbourne, Kashif and Stevie Wonder. Warwick was also host of the hit television music show, “Solid Gold.” In addition, she recorded several theme songs, including “Champagne Wishes & Caviar Dreams,” for the popular television series “Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous,” and “The Love Boat,” for the hit series from Aaron Spelling. More recently, Warwick recorded an album of duets, “My Friends & Me,” for Concord Records, a critically acclaimed Gospel album, “Why We Sing,” for Rhino/Warner Records, and a new jazz album, ”Only Trust Your Heart,” a collection of standards, celebrating the music of legendary composer Sammy Cahn for Sony Red/MPCA Records.

More recently, Warwick has added “author” to her list of credits with two best-selling children’s books, “Say A Little Prayer,” and “Little Man,” and her first best-selling autobiography, “My Life As I See It” for Simon &
Schuster.

Always one to give back, Warwick has supported and campaigned for many causes and charities close to her heart, including AIDS, The Starlight Foundation, children’s hospitals, world hunger, disaster relief and music education for which she has been recognized and honored and has raised millions of dollars. She served as Global Ambassador for Health and Ambassador for the United Nations’ Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO). A New Jersey school was named in her honor, The Dionne Warwick Institute in recognition of her accomplishments and support of education. Warwick was also a key participating artist in the all-star charity single, “We Are the World,” and in 1984, performed at “Live Aid.”

Celebrating 50 years in entertainment, and the 25th Anniversary of “That’s What Friends Are For,” Warwick hosted and headlined an all-star benefit concert for World Hunger Day in London and will continue to do so annually, was honored by the Desert Aids Project with its prestigious 2011 Steve Chase Humanitarian Arts & Activism Award, was recognized by AMFAR in a special reunion performance, alongside Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder at its Anniversary Gala in New York City, and was honored by Clive Davis at his legendary Pre-Grammy Party Gala.

Most recently, Warwick was inducted into the GRAMMY MUSEUM in Los Angeles where a special 50th Anniversary exhibit was unveiled and an historic program and performance was held in the Clive Davis Theater, hosted by Clive Davis, Burt Bacharach and Grammy Museum Executive Director, Bob Santelli.

Currently, Warwick just completed recording a new studio album commemorating her 50th Anniversary. Set for release this Fall, the album is being produced by Phil Ramone, featuring special new material written by her longtime friend and legendary composer Burt Bacharach.

Warwick’s pride and joy are her two sons, singer recording artist David Elliott and award-winning music producer Damon Elliott and her family. Warwick has recently embarked on her 50th Anniversary World Concert Tour which will take her to all continents and countries that she has performed and visited throughout her illustrious and celebrated 50 year career.

(courtest: www.DionneWarwick.us)

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Dionne Warwick 1940–

Vocalist

A popular recording artist and concert performer since the early 1960s, Dionne Warwick has so firmly established herself with the public that hit records now seem icing on the cake rather than an attention getting neccessity. By becoming a trend-defying musical fixture, Warwick has achieved one of her early goals. “Someday I want the kind of loyalty among audiences that Ella Fitzgerald has. So that if I want to stop for two years or ten years, I could come back and still be Miss Dionne Warwick,” Warwick told Newsweek in 1966. Though more than three decades have passed since her initial success, and several years have gone by since she has had a hit record, Warwick can still sell out concert halls and supper clubs. “In an age when the music industry is crammed to bursting with pretentious one-hit wonders, it was an education and a privilege to witness an artist with true class, style and talent,” wrote a reviewer for Ethnic Newswatch about Warwick’s appearance with the BBC Concert Orchestra at London’s Royal Festival Hall in 1995.

Dionne Warwick was born Marie Dionne Warwick in East Orange, New Jersey, a suburb of New York City, in 1940. Her father, Mancei, worked as a chef and butcher. Her mother, Lee, managed a well-known gospel group called the Drinkard Singers. The family included Warwick’s two younger siblings, Dee Dee, and Mancei, Jr. Warwick’s parents were devout Methodists who gave their children a highly moral and extremely supportive upbringing. “They have always been 100 percent for me. As long as I’m happy and can earn a decent living, they’re happy for me,” Warwick said of her parents to Mary Smith of Ebony in 1968.

As a teenager in the mid-1950s, Warwick, her sister Dee Dee, and two cousins formed a group called The Gospelaires. The group performed locally and sometimes worked as back up singers for other acts. Planning to become a public school music teacher, Warwick accepted a scholarship to study at the University of Hartford,’s Hartford, College of Music. In 1961, during a summer vacation from college, Warwick rejoined The Gospelaires to sing back up on The Drifters recording of “Mexican Divorce.” Conducting the session was the song’s composer Burt Bacharach. “She was singing louder than everybody else so I couldn’t help noticing

At a Glance…

Born Marie Dionne Warrick, December 12, 1940, in East Orange, NJ; daughter of Mancel (a chef), and Lee Warrick (business manager for a musical group); married Bill Elliott (actor and jazz drummer), c. 1967 (divorced 1975); children: David and Damon. Education: Attended Hartt College of Music, University of Hartford. Hartford, CT. c. 1959-62.

Career: Sang with the Gospelaires, a musical group, from 1955 to early 1960s. Recording session back up singer for The Drifters, and other musical groups in the early 1960s. Solo performer with numerous hit records, beginning with “Don’t Make Me Over” in 1962. Other hits include “Anyone Who Had a Heart,” “Walk On By,” “Trains and Boats and Planes,” “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?,” “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again,” “I say a Little Prayer for You,” “Heartbreaker,” “Deja Vu,” and “That’s What Friends Are For.” Host of television program Solid Gold, 1980-81. Spokesperson for the Psychic Friends Network 1992-97. Made film appearances in Slaves, 1969, and Rent-A-Cop, 1987,

Awards: Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Pop Vocal (Female) for “Do You Know the Way to San lose? in 1968, I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” in 1970, and “I’ll Never Love This Way Again” in 1979. Grammy Award for Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal (Female) for “Deja Vu” in 1979. Gold Records for “I Say a Little Prayer” In 1968, “l’ll Never Love This Way Again,” in 1979, “Then Came You” in 1974, and “That’s What Friends are For" in 1986, National Association of Colored People (NAACP) Entertainer of the Year Award, 1986; NAACP Key of Life Award, 1990; Jackie Robinson Foundattion Robie Award, 1992.

Addresses: Residence —Brazil; Business; —Arista Records, 6 W. 57th St, New York, NY, 10019.

her,” Bacharach recalled to Smith. “Not only was she clearly audible, but Dionne had something. Just the way she carries herself, the way she works, her flow and feeling for the music—it was there when I first met her. She had, and still has, a kind of elegance, a grace that very few other people have.”

Bacharach, and his lyricist partner Hal David, asked Warwick to sing on a demonstration record of one of their compositions. The record was heard by Florence Greenberg of Scepter Records, a small label specializing in rhythm and blues. Greenberg did not like the song but did like the singer and signed Warwick to a contract. Warwick’s first recording for Scepter, released in 1962, was more Bacharach-David material. Though Scepter was promoting the song “I Smiled Yesterday” as the potential hit, it was the record’s “B” side, the powerfully plaintive “Don’t Make Me Over,” that caught on and went to the number twenty-one position on the Billboard chart. A misspelling on the record—Warwick instead of Warrick—gave Warwick her stage name.

The trio of Warwick-Bacharach-David followed up with a long string of top ten hits over the next decade, including “Anyone Who Had a Heart” and “Walk on By,” both in 1964, “Message to Michael” in 1966, “I Say a Little Prayer for You” in 1969, “This Girl’s in Love with You” in 1969. Other hits include “Trains and Boats and Planes,” “Alfie,” “You’ll Never Get to Heaven,” and “Make It Easy on Yourself.” Warwick took two songs from Bacharach and David’s 1968 Broadway musical Promises, Promises —“I’ll Never Fall in Love Again,” and the title song—to the pop charts. She won the Grammy Award for Contemporary Pop Vocal twice during this period—for “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?” in 1968 and “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” in 1970.

Bacharach told Newseek that Warwick’s sound “has the delicacy and mystery of sailing ships in bottles. It’s tremendously inspiring. We cut songs for her like fine cloth, tailor-made.” Though numerous other performers made hits of Bacharach-David songs, including The Carpenters with “Close to You,” and B.J. Thomas with “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head,” it was their work with Warwick that best exemplfied their distinctive style. In The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, Phil Hardy and Dave Laing sum up the Warwick-Bacharach-David magic as follows—“Warwick provided the light, lithe voice, David the literate, witty lyrics and Bacharach the imaginative melodies, unusual arrangements and complex rhythms that few singers other than Warwick could have managed: on ’Anyone Who Had Heart,’ for example, she deftly weaves into and through 5/4 to 4/4 to 7/8.” Strangely enough, it was non-Bacharach-David song— “Theme from The Valley of the Dolls,” written by Andre and Dory Previn—that brought Warwick closest to the top of the chart in the 1960s. The song climbed to number two in early 1968.

Warwick’s appeal crossed racial barriers. She was to the 1960s what Nat King Cole had been to the 1950s—a mainstream performer who happened to be black. Nevertheless, Warwick occasionally faced race related problems such as bigoted hecklers in the audience and department store clerks who questioned her ability to pay for costly items (shopping is one of Warwick’s primary pastimes and for a time she rented an additional apartment just to store her clothes). Cool and confident, Warwick responded to anti-black sentiment with cutting remarks and, if neccessary, forceful letters to local authorities. Having grown up in a racially mixed, lower middle class community in the North, Warwick was never hesitant about appearing in the South. “To me, Mississippi is just a long word. They’ve got their problems, but they’re not going to make them my problems,” Warwick explained to Ebony in 1968.

In 1972, Bacharach and David brought their song writ-ing partnership to an acrimonious end. The split shocked Warwick and left her unable to fulfill her obligation to Warner Bros., the record company with which she had signed the previous year, to make a new album of Bacharch-David material. “I had heard the scuttlebutt but I thought if anybody would know, I would know. Famous last words. I found out in the paper like everybody else that they weren’t going to do the album, they weren’t writing together, they weren’t even talking to each other. What hurt me the most was that I thought I was their friend. But I was wrong. They did not care about Dionne Warwick. It was devastating,” Warwick told Stephen Holden of Rolling Stone Threatened with a breach of contract suit from Warner Bros., Warwick sued Bacharach and David and eventually won an out-of-court settlement.

Though her collaboration with The Spinners on the song “Then Came You,” went to the top of the Billboard chart in the autumn of 1974, Warwick’s career languished for much of the 1970s. Warwick’s personal life also reached a low point during this period. Her marriage to Bill Elliott, a musician and actor whom she had married in 1967, began to founder. On the advice of an astrologer and numerologist, Warwick added an e to the end of her last name in the hope improving her fortunes. The extra letter did not help. “Every place I worked that had the ‘e’ on the marquee, something went wrong,” Warwick told Rich Wiseman of People. Warwick and Eliot, who had two young sons together, were divorced in 1975. Two years later, Warwick’s father died suddenly and her mother suffered a stroke. To deal with her personal and professional troubles, Warwick turned to almost nonstop touring. “I felt I’d blow emotionally if I didn’t immerse myself in work. I pushed myself,” Warwick told Wiseman.

Warwick’s career got back on track when she signed with Arista records in 1979. Arista president Clive Davis, who has also been instrumental in the career of Warwick’s cousin, Whitney Houston, was excited and proud to have Warwick on his label. “I can see now that while I was at Warners, everything was wrong but me. Now, once again, everything is being done absolutely for me. There’s no overshadowing. I’m sitting on top of everything, which is the way it should be,” Warwick told Holden.

Davis arranged for Barry Manilow to produce Warwick’s first Arista album, Dionne. Warwick was at uneasy at first about working with Manilow, fearing their differing styles would clash. She was especially concerned that the album might have a “disco” sound. Warwick was deliberately ignoring the disco trend. “I’m too much of a snob to do faddish material,” she explained to Wiseman. Happily, the Warwick-Manilow collaboration was spectacularly successful, resulting in the hits “I’ll Never Love This Way Again” and “Deja Vu.” Each song earned a Grammy award for Warwick (in the pop Female Vocal and in Rhythm and Blues Female Vocal categories, respectively). Manilow told Wiseman that “Dionne is one of the all-time best. She doesn’t have to snort coke and wait for the lightning bolt to strike.”

Warwick further increased her visibility by hosting the television show Solid Gold, which featured a countdown of the week’s top hits and guest appearances by popular recording artists. Warwick began hosting the show in July 1980 and was fired in the Spring of 1981. The official reason for the firing was that the producers wanted a younger host to attract a younger audience but there were rumors that the real reason was that Warwick was temperamental and difficult to work with. Warwick denied being temperamental, only perfectionistic, and said that sexism and racism had a great deal to do with her dismissal. She claimed that female performers who assert their opinions are unfairly labelled “difficult.” Also, one of her chief concerns as host was to insure that black performers had their share of attention and were presented in the best possible light. Warwick was critical of her replacement, singer Marilyn McCoo, formerly of The Fifth Dimension. “I’m angry at her, and it’s not sour grapes,” Warwick told Dennis Hunt of Ebony “She came in with an I’II-do-anything-you-want-me-to-do attitude … She came in at a subservient position, which is not right for a black woman. When I was with the show, I was always in a position of strength, I was the main person on the show, but she’s secondary… She’s a black woman, and she should not have settled for less. You have to fight for what you can get.”

The Solid Gold brouhaha had little effect on Warwick’s popularity. The title song from her 1982 album Heart-breaker took her yet again to the top ten on the Billboard chart. The song was written by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, who also produced the album. As with Manilow three years earlier, Warwick was reluctant to work with Gibb, an established performer/composer whose style was very different from her own. Also, she was concerned that their collaboration might be replica of Gibb’s recent work on Barbra Streisand’s Guilty album. “There’s some of the Bee Gees sound on my album,” Warwick explained to Hunt. “But that’s Barry’s style, and you can’t avoid it. But at least the Bee Gee thing isn’t overwhelming. The main thing is that the album did not turn out to be Guilty II It just had to be different from Streisand’s. I think we were successful in that. The songs on this album are in my style, not hers.”

Since the early 1980s, Warwick has devoted much of her time to charitable activities. In 1984, she was one of 45 top performers to sing on the hit single “We Are the World,” the proceeds of which went to USA for Africa’s hunger relief program. Warwick brought together Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, and Elton John to join her on the recording “That’s What Friends Are For.” The song, written by Burt Bacharach, with whom Warwick had patched up her differences, and lyricist Carole Bayer Sager, was a smash that went to number one on the Billboard chart in January 1986 and raised an estimated $2 million for AIDS research. Warwick, who has hosted countless fundraising benefits for AIDS research, has also been involved in raising awareness of other health issues, including Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Sickle Cell Anemia. In the mid-1980s she founded the group BRAVO (Blood Revolves Around Victorious Optimism) to raise awareness of blood diseases.

Bringing her social concerns to the music industry, Warwick served on the Entertainment Commmision of the National Political Congress of Black Women (NPCBW). In 1995, she co-chaired with Melba Moore, a special meeting of the commission during the NPCBW’s convention in Seattle. One of the commission’s major concerns was gangsta rap lyrics, which the NPCBW views as degrading and insulting to black women. “There are some songs that are just a little too much. I feel that our young people are creative enough musically to find positive sides of life and put them into songs. I know they can do it,” Warwick told Don Thomas of Ethnic Newswatch

A heavy schedule of charitable activities has not caused Warwick’s singing career to languish. She has continued to record and perform regularly. In 1987, her duet with Jeffery Osborne on the song “Love Power” went to number twelve on the Billboard chart. Among her notable albums is the 1992 release Friends Can Be Lovers, which featured the song “Sunny Weather Lover,” Warwick’s first Bacharach-David material in twenty years. Another song on the album, “Love Will Find a Way,” was written by Warwick’s son David Elliott and his songwriter partner, Terry Steele. The song was performed as a duet with cousin Whitney Houston. The album also features Warwick in a duet with close friend Luther Vandross on the song “Fragile,” written by pop star Sting. “The entire album feels the way that it actually happened, which is why I am so proud of it,” Warwick told Jet “It’s full of love. It’s full of friendship, it’s full of family and it’s full of people (producers) who wanted to give the very best that they could possibly give.”

Another notable album is Aquarela do Brasil (Watercolors of Brazil), a collection of Brazillian music released in 1994. Warwick first visited Brazil in the early 1960s and has become so entranced by the South American country that she has bought a home there and has studied Portuguese. “I love Brazil. I see there so much of what we’ve lost here in America. I see complete families, from grandmother to grandchild and in between at the malls on Saturdays together, on Sundays at the park together … I think the most important thing is that we all have problems obviously, but for whatever reasons it appears that through it all, people in Brazil still have the ability to smile, there is always tomorrow still. This attitude particularly captivated me,” Warwick told Cristina M. Eibscher of News from Brazil in 1995. Warwick has adopted a favela or shanty town in Rio de Janeiro. “The Brazillian people have been offering me so much that I felt that it was time for me to give something in return for their hospitality and friendship. That’s when I decided to adopt a favel and help people who are needy. It’s a great feeling to know that you can contribute for the happiness and well being of others, especially for the well being of Brazillian children,” Warwick explained to Eibscher.

Away from music, Warwick devotes her time to a Beverly Hills-based interior design business she operates with business partner Bruce Garrick. “It’s another extension of my artistic expression,” Warwick said of interior design to Ruth Ryon of the Los Angeles Times in 1992. Most of the firm’s work has been for private homes, including those of Burt Reynolds and Tom Jones. Warwick’s appearances on “infomercials” for the Psychic Friends Network is one of her best known nonmusical endeavors. “It’s the most successful infomercial of all time,” said Jack Schember, publisher of Response TV, a magazine that tracks the direct-response television, to David Barboza of the New York Times Warwick defends her sometimes mocked association with the Psychic Friends Network. She told Clarence Waldron of Jet, “I find psychics and astrologers and numerologists to be very fascinating people … I feel that there are people who have developed eyes and have an ability that we have to question because we can’t do it… God will always be first. God can’t be any place but first. And any of those who doubt that, then they have a problem.”

Selected discography

Presenting Dionne Warwick, 1964.

Anyone Who Had a Heart, 1964.

Make Way for Dionne Warwick, 1964.

The Sensitive Sound of Dionne Warwick, 1965.

Here I Am, 1965.

Dionne Warwick in Paris, 1965.

Here Where There is Love, 1967.

On Stage and in the Movies, 1967.

Windows of the World, 1967.

The Magic of Believing, 1967.

Valley of the Dolls and Others, 1968.

Soulful, 1969.

Greatest Motion Picture Hits, 1969.

Dionne Warwick’s Golden Hits, Volume 1, 1969.

Dionne Warwick’s Golden Hits, Volume 2, 1970.

I’ll Never Fall in Love Again, 1970.

Very Dionne, 1971.

Promises, Promises, 1971.

From Within, Volume 1, 1972.

Dionne, 1973.

Just Being Myself, 1973.

Then Came You, 1975.

Track of the Cat, 1975.

Love at First Sight, 1977.

Dionne, 1979.

No Night So Long, 1980.

Hot! Live and Otherwise, 1981.

Heartbreaker, 1983.

Finder of Lost Loves,

Dionne and Friends, 1986.

Anthology, 1962-1971, 1986.

Masterpieces, 1986.

Reservations for Two, 1987.

Dionne Warwick Sings Cole Porter, 1990.

Hidden Gems: The Best of Dionne Warwick, 1992.

Friends Can Be Lovers, 1993.

Aquarela do Brasil, 1994.

From the Vaults, 1995.

Sources

Books

Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishing, 1993.

Elrod, Bruce C. Your Hit Parade Ann Arbor, MI: Popular Culture Ink, 1994

Hardy, Phil, and Dave Laing. The Faber Companion to 20th-century Popular Music London: Faber and Faber, 1992.

Notable Black American Women. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, Inc., 1992.

Periodicals

Billboard, October 1, 1994, p. 14.

California Voice, June 18, 1995, p. 3.

Cincinnati Call and Post, January 26, 1995, p. 1B.

Contemporary Musicians, Volume 2, 1990, p. 244-246.

Ebony, May 1968, p. 37-42; May 1983, p. 95-100; April 1995, p. 22.

Jet, March 29, 1993, p. 54-58; January 17, 1994, p. 56.

Los Angeles Times, October 4, 1992, p. K1, 10.

Miami Times, February 23, 1995, p. 1B.

Michigan Chronicle, February 13, 1996, p. 1D.

News from Brazil, October 31, 1995, p. 41.

Newsweek, October 10, 1966, p. 101-102.

New York Beacon, July 31, 1996, p.26.

New York Times, May 12, 1968, p. D17, 20; December 7, 1995, p. D8.

Oakland Post, December 10, 1995, p. 8B.

People, October 15, 1979, p. 85.

Rolling Stone, November 15, 1979, p. 16-17.

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AllMusic Review by Steve Huey

Rhino's The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits is the best Warwick collection on the market, culling 24 tracks from her '60s prime. Although it doesn't cover her entire career, it does feature nearly all of her very best material, and it's all in the style that made her famous; top to bottom, it's a stronger, more consistent listen than anything else out there. This was the period when she established herself as the premier interpreter of Burt Bacharach's music, and pulled off the neat trick of appealing to both R&B and easy listening audiences. Warwick was soulful without necessarily singing soul music per se; her smooth, light delivery and polished technique meshed very well with the sophisticated pop of the Bacharach/Hal David team, who co-composed all but one of the songs included here. No other singer navigated Bacharach's deceptively tricky compositions with such effortless grace; the ease she projects on the rhythmically complex "I Say a Little Prayer" and "Promises, Promises" is startling. It's no wonder her versions of Bacharach's songs often became the definitive ones. This compilation doesn't cover Warwick's later hits, like the Spinners' duet "Then Came You," "That's What Friends Are For," or her late-'70s/early-'80s adult contemporary fare; for those, look to Arista's The Definitive Collection, which touches on every phase of her career, or the more specific Greatest Hits (1979-1990). But for a sparkling demonstration of everything that made Warwick great, there's no better buy than The Dionne Warwick Collection.

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Dionne Warwick

Dionne Warwick (born Marie Dionne Warrick on December 12, 1940), is a five-time Grammy Award-winning singer… She is best known for her partnership with songwriters and producers Burt Bacharach and Hal David. According to Billboard magazine, Dionne Warwick is second only to Aretha Franklin as the female vocalist with the most Billboard Hot 100 chart hits during the rock era (1955-1999). Warwick charted a total of 56 hits in the Billboard Hot 100.[1]. The artist scored crossover hits on the Rhythm & Blues charts and the Adult Contemporary charts. Joel Whitburn’s tome on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts entitled “Top Pop Singles 1955-1999” ranked Dionne Warwick as the 20th most popular of the top 200 artists of the rock era based upon the Billboard Pop Singles Charts. (from Wikipedia)

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October 15, 2010

Interview: Dionne Warwick

Two weeks ago, the phone rang and the voice on the other

end said, "Hi, this is Dionne Warwick." Though the call was expected (we were due to talk for my Wall Street Journal profile that appears today here), I was still taken aback. There, on the phone, was that signature husky voice that had racked up 56 hits on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. In a strange way, I felt as though Dionne was calling me from 1966.
Dionne Warwick is a big deal. How big? In the past 52 years, she has had more Hot 100 hits than any other female artist except Aretha Franklin. In 1968 alone she had six

singles on the chart. Dionne also has won five Grammy Awards—and was the first female artist to win Best R&B Vocal and Best Pop Vocal in the same year (1979). More than 30 of her hits were written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and three of her singles (Walk on By, Alfie and Don't Make Me Over) are in the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Interestingly, Dionne has had two mammoth careers. The first

was with Bacharach-David. The second was with Clive Davis' Arista label, where she had 14 hits, including I'll Never Love This Way Again, Deja Vu, Heartbreaker and That's What Friends Are For. She'll be singing a selection of them tonight at B.B. King's in New York.
Here's part of my interview with Dionne, 69, minus the material in my Wall Street Journal profile:

JazzWax: Do you still live in Brazil?
Dionne Warwick: No. I now live in New Jersey. I sold my home in Bahia, Brazil, and returned to live in the U.S. five years ago, when my sister and mother became ill. I call Brazil my stress-free country. Everything is very laid back. I love the samba. Brazilian music is sublime. It’s such happy music, and there are always smiles on people’s faces down there.

JW: Are you planning to record a bossa nova album?
DW: I'd love to. You know, I recorded one Brazilian

CD—Aquarela Do Brasil in 1994. It has been a well-kept secret [laughs].

JW: What did you learn about singing at your grandfather’s Methodist church in New Jersey and at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark?
DW: The meaning of words. Gospel is basically the Bible in song. The words are always so positive. Melody also is very important in gospel. I’ve been singing in church since age six and taking piano lessons since age nine.

JW: When Burt Bacharach discovered you, he asked you to record a demo, yes?
JW: Burt wrote It’s Love That Really Counts, intending it for

the Shirelles. He had me record a demo of it and then sent the demo to Florence Greenberg, the owner of Scepter Records in New York. Florence didn’t like the song but she loved the voice singing it.

JW: What was Greenberg like?
DW: Florence [pictured] loved every person on her roster. She loved us all. And what a roster—the Shirelles, Chuck Jackson, the Isley

Brothers, the Kingsmen, the Guess Who and others. There was a warm family feeling there. We weren’t numbers. She had a great gut for artists, but picking records was another story. I always hoped she wouldn’t like what I had recorded because those would become my biggest hits [laughs].

JW: How did you work with Burt on all of those songs?
DW: I was signed to Burt and Hal's production company,

which in turn was signed to Scepter. Burt and Hal wrote specifically for me. I simply had to listen to the songs they had written for me and record them in my special way. When I wasn’t on the road performing, I would go up to Burt’s apartment and listen to a bunch of things. Or I’d go up to their little office in the Brill Building. [Pictured, from left: Hal David, Burt Bacharach and Dionne Warwick]

JW: What don’t most people know about your Bacharach-David hits?
DW: That they were all difficult, musically. Burt’s complex melodies and shifting time signatures within the song were tough. You had to

be able to read music to keep up. Fortunately I could, from my piano lessons and semesters at the Hartt School of Music in Connecticut. We’d record those songs 20 or 25 times, sometimes just in parts.

JW: Which take did he often choose for the master?
DW: Usually the second or third [laughs].

JW: When you realized he was doing this, what did you say when he called for multiple takes?
DW: After the 10th take on a song, I’d say, “Burt, I think we got it the third time." Recording that way can be trying.

JW: Did singing so many takes of the same song take the edge off your attack?
DW: Not really. I’d just find another ambiance to put in

vocally or an alternate note to keep it interesting.

JW: Why were the female British pop singers so intent on copying your versions?
DW: Because the songs were hits, and they were hungry. But it wasn't just with my hits. Every American female artist was being

covered by some British singer. As for my hits, Cilla Black did Anyone Who Had a Heart, Dusty Springfield did Wishin’ and Hopin’ and Sandie Shaw did Always Someone There to Remind Me. I never forgave Cilla for her exact copy, and Sandie’s version was a complete steal.

JW: Did you ever run into Cilla?
DW: Yes, once in London. It wasn’t pleasant. Lifting what I was doing was the way of the world over there. I guess they all hoped it would be their ticket to hitting it big in the States. Interpretations are one thing. Copying a version that closely, with my phrasing and delivery, is a challenge.

JW: Who asked you to participate in We Are the World in 1985?
DW: Quincy Jones. And I was paired with Willie Nelson [laughs]. That was the most unlikely pairing. But it worked.

JW: How did you wind up at Arista Records?
DW: Clive Davis, who started the label, and I were on a TV

talk show in 1977. My contract was just about up with Warner Bros. Clive asked if I’d become part of his roster. I wasn’t happy with how I was being produced at Warner. So we sat down and talked about it, and I came aboard.

JW: Who did Davis assign as your producer?
DW: Barry Manilow.

JW: What did you think?
DW: At first I didn’t think it would work. I thought Barry was incredible with his own albums but that he wouldn't get me.

JW: What changed your mind?
DW: When we met, Barry had really done his homework.

He had every recording I had made and had been listening to me for years. [Pictured: Barry Manilow and Dionne Warwick in 1990]

JW: What did you say to him when he produced I'll Never Love This Way Again and it became your first huge hit at the label in 1979?
DW: I said, "I think I was right to have chosen you as my producer" [laughs].

JW: Is your album of Sammy Cahn songs going to be released soon?
DW: I hope so.

JW: Was it a mistake to have become the spokesperson for

the Psychic Friends Network in the 1990s?
DW: Look, it was a job. Recordings weren’t happening, and I had to feed my family and keep a roof over my head.

JazzWax tracks: The best-sounding compilation of Dionne Warwick's hits

is Dionne Warwick: The Definitive Collection at iTunes or here. Two of my favorite albums by Dionne are Promises, Promises and Soulful. Both can be found at iTunes. I mention these two because they deliver from beginning to end. Take a look at the tracks and sample both.
JazzWax clips: Here's a clip of Dionne Warwick singing Anyone Who Had a Heart, with a great photomontage...

Here's take #10 of I Say a Little Prayer, which became the master...

Here's That's What Friends Are For (1985), with Dionne, Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder...

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50 years ago today, Dionne Warwick released her fifth full-length studio release, an album which may not have delivered any smash hits but went on to be viewed one of the classic albums of her career nonetheless.

Produced by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, just like the four albums that preceded it, Here I Am seemingly had a pop chart advantage with its title track, which had been featured in the hit film What's New, Pussycat? (The movie's theme song, of course, was also a Bacharach / David composition.) Alas, “Here I Am” made it no further than #65 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the follow-up single, “Lookin' with My Eyes,” made it precisely one spot higher before beginning its descent. Indeed, the only top-40 hit to emerge from the album was “Are You There (With Another Girl),” which is the unlikeliest of the three of have become a hit, given its unique instrumentation.

Here I Am has often been cited as the Warwick album where Burt Bacharach started to his stride as a songwriter, expanding beyond the typical pop songs of the day and getting more creative with his compositions. Lest it be forgotten, however, Warwick also tackled songs by other composers, including “Once in a Lifetime,” written by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, and “I Love You Porgy,” from Porgy & Bess, even serving up a little religion by covering “This Little Light.”

Tracklist
Track Name	Artist Name	On Album
In Between The Heartaches - Ichiban	Dionne Warwick	Here I Am (US Release)		Amazon
Here I Am	Dionne Warwick	Here I Am (US Release)	iTunes	Amazon
If I Ever Make You Cry - Ichiban	Dionne Warwick	Here I Am (US Release)		Amazon
Lookin' with My Eyes, Seein' With My Heart aka (Here I Go Again) Lookin' With My Eyes	Dionne Warwick	Here I Am (US Release)		Amazon
Once In A Lifetime	Dionne Warwick	Here I Am (US Release)	iTunes	Amazon
This Little Light	Dionne Warwick	Here I Am (US Release)	iTunes	Amazon
Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Ichiban	Dionne Warwick	Here I Am (US Release)		Amazon
Window Wishing - Ichiban	Dionne Warwick	Here I Am (US Release)		Amazon
Long Day, Short Night	Dionne Warwick	Here I Am (US Release)	iTunes	Amazon
Are You There (With Another Girl)	Dionne Warwick	Here I Am (US Release)	iTunes	Amazon
How Can I Hurt You? - Ichiban	Dionne Warwick	Here I Am (US Release)		Amazon
I Loves You Porgy	Dionne Warwick	Here I Am (US Release

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Dueling Divas: Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick Sing Two Classic Versions of ‘I Say a Little Prayer’

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Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick are two of the highest charting women in music history. Between them, they’ve made 129 appearances in the Billboard Hot 100. Two of those were with the same song: the 1966 Burt Bacharach and Hal David composition, “I Say a Little Prayer.”

The song was written especially for Warwick. David’s lyrics are about a woman’s daily thoughts of her man, who is away in Vietnam. Bacharach arranged and produced the original recording in April of 1966, but was unhappy with the result. “I thought I blew it,” he told the Los Angeles Times in 1998. “The tempo seemed too fast. I never wanted the record to come out. So what happens? They put out the record and it was a huge hit. I was wrong.” The song was released over Bacharach’s objections in October, 1967 and rose to number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 8 on the Billboard R & B charts.

Aretha Franklin:

A few months after Warwick’s single came out, Aretha Franklin and The Sweet Inspirations were singing “I Say a Little Prayer” for fun during a break in recording sessions for Aretha Now. Producer Jerry Wexler liked what he heard, and decided to record the song. With Franklin on piano and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section behind her, it was recorded in one take. Franklin’s version has more of a gospel and rhythm & blues feel, with a fluid call-and-response interplay between the lead and backup singers.

Released in July of 1968, the single was less of a crossover hit than Warwick’s version — it peaked at number 10 on the Hot 100 chart — but rose all the way to number 3 on the R & B chart. Overshadowed at first, Franklin’s recording has grown in stature over the years. Even Bacharach likes it better than the one he made with Warwick. As he told Mitch Albom earlier this year, “Aretha just made a far better record.”

You can listen above, as Warwick performs “I Say a Little Prayer” in an unidentified television broadcast and Franklin sings it with the Sweethearts of Soul on the August 31, 1970 Cliff Richard Show. Tell us: Which version do you think is better?

DIONNE WARWICK CELEBRATES 50 YEARS IN SHOW BUSINESS

Oct 3, 2012

Produced by Phil Ramone and featuring new material written by Bacharach and David, “Now” also represents Dionne’s collaboration with her sons, recording artist David Elliott and award-winning music producer Damon Elliott.

“I’m very excited about the new album,” said Dionne. “It includes a few songs I have recorded in the past that will be treated in a fashion that takes them into the 21st century – to now, which is how we came up with the title. So, we have revisited some of the early songs and then Burt and Hal gave me two new songs each to record which are really super. I was also very happy to (have had) the opportunity to work with both of my sons on this project. Damon did a marvelous job of recording and mixing and David sounds wonderful on the duet we did.”

Equally excited about her tour, Dionne said she is looking forward to it as much as anything she has done throughout her career. “The tour won’t be to the extent of the one I did for my 45th anniversary,” she said with a laugh. “I thought I was going to lose my mind during that tour because it was so grueling. For this one, I have chosen areas where people have been supportive of me during my career. I will do the entire world – six continents. But I’ve learned my lesson, and this time it will be done in a more controlled and planned way – a couple of days in each place, instead of staying for a couple of weeks like I did during the last tour. I’m excited about this because I will see a lot of friends and fans that I will be able to say thank you to for the love they have shown me over the past 50 years.”

Asked how she keeps in shape, vocally and physically for such an undertaking, Dionne, who will turn 72 on December 12, shrugs. “I don’t adhere to any sort of exercise regimen or diet – I never have. I eat everything I want to eat,” she revealed. “I think good genes has a lot to do with keeping in shape, which is good, because I’m too lazy to think about running or doing any sort of exercising,” she added with a laugh. “My exercising is running through airports and by extending an awful lot of energy onstage. As for my voice, I feel it has matured. Your vocal cords are a muscle, so as long as you keep using them, you are keeping those muscles in shape and strong. I also think I bring something different to my songs now than I did when I was younger, because I have more of an understanding of what I am singing about. When I sing ‘Walk On By’ today, I think of the lyrics differently from when I recorded it. Having lived my life, those lyrics – heartaches and pain – they mean more to me today than when I was young.”

THE MUSIC OF DIONNE WARWICK: AN EXTENSIVE VIDEO OVERVIEW, A CROSS SECTION OF RECORDINGS, MUSICAL ANALYSIS AND COMMENTARY, PLUS VARIOUS INTERVIEWS WITH DIONNE WARWICK:

Dionne Warwick: The Dionne Warwick Collection:

CD Release 1989

Dionne Warwick- "Anyone Who Had A Heart" 1964 Original Top 10 Hit:

Dionne Warwick's 1963 "Anyone Who Had A Heart" hit the Billboard Top Ten in January 1964 and peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. The tune was a crossover smash and hit #6 on the Billboard R&B Chart and #2 on the Billboard AC Chart. The tune was also a Top 10 hit in Australia, Belgium, Canada and South Africa. Written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, the tune was presented to Dionne in unfinished form while she, Hal and Burt were rehearsing in Burt's Manhattan apartment for a recording session a few days hence at Bell Sound. Bacharach had finished the score but Hal had written only about a third of the lyric and was struggling with what Hal regarded a bad accent in the sixth line of the first stanza, which he could not resolve. 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. Cilla Black, a top female recording artist in the Uk but little known outside the UK recorded a cover version released in the UK in January 1964 before Scepter licensee Pye records could release Warwick's original and Black's cover became her first number one hit in the UK. Dionne's original version, released two weeks after Cilla's in the UK did make the UK charts at #43. However, in the USA, Black's cover died at Billboard #91. Black remained relatively unknown except to fans in the UK while Warwick went on to achieve worldwide stardom. Anyone Who Had A Heart was Dionne's first international million-seller. Linda Ronstadt covered the tune in 1994 as a tribute to Warwick for the album "Winter Light." Dusty Springfield cut a cover of the tune in 1964 and both Shelby Lynne and Atomic Kitten remakes were released in 2008.

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...

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."

Dionne Warwick - "Walk On By" (1964):

Dionne Warwick - "Don't Make Me Over" - Live 1963

The Beautiful Dionne singing to playback in 1963:

DIONNE WARWICK— "I just don't know what to do with myself”

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"Message To Michael" (1966):

"Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" --Dionne Warwick:

Dionne Warwick-"Alfie" 1967

Grammy Hall of Fame 2008:

Alfie, from the 1966 Michael Caine classic, was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and was an Adacemy Award nominee for Best Song From A Motion Picture for 1966 (Born Free, the title track from the film of the same name, won). Bacharach wrote the tune with Warwick specifically in mind, but when the tune was pitched for the movie in London, Bacharach was overridden because the producers wanted a British singer to record the tune. Cilla Black recorded the tune and her version died at number 95 in the USA, although a hit in England. Ironically, Cilla's version was not used in the UK and European prints of the film; Sonny Rollins is heard in Australian prints of the film. When the film was released in the USA, United Artists felt a singer on their label should record the tune, so for the American prints of the film, Cher can be heard over the final credits, and her version peaked at 34 on the charts in 1966. Alfie was recorded by 42 other singers before Burt finally got his wish to record Alfie with Dionne and she took it all the way to # 5 on Billboard's Hot R&B Chart and #15 on Billboard's Hot 100. Dionne has stated Burt insisted that she record the tune since he had written it specifically for her to sing in the film, and she was reluctant after 42 other versions had been released and asked Burt, "How many more recordings of Alfie do you need?" Burt's reply? "Just one more, yours." She agreed to cut the tune because she needed one more track to complete the album according to Steve Tyrell. Originally released on the Here Where There Is Love LP in early 1967, the track was pulled from the album and played frequently by DJs all over the country. Dionne sang Alfie at the Academy Awards Ceremony in March to a world wide audience to much critical acclaim and the public began snap up her LP containing the tune. In March 1967 Scepter released the tune as the "B" side of The Beginning of Loneliness, a little known but beautiful Bacharach/David ballad. But, DJ's once again had the final word on the single and flipped it to make Alfie a huge hit, after Dionne's stunning performance of Alfie at the Academy Awards. The Here Where There Is Love LP hit the top twenty on the Billboard album chart and received an RIAA gold record award.

In 2008, Dionne Warwick's recording of Alfie was chosen for the Grammy Hall of Fame. Previous Warwick recordings honored by the Hall of Fame: Walk on By-1998, and Don't Make Me Over-20.

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Dionne Warwick

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Marie Dionne Warrick, known as Dionne Warwick (/ˈdiːɒn ˈwɔːrwɪk/; born December 12, 1940), is an American singer, actress and TV-show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health.

Having been in a partnership with songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Warwick ranks among the 40 biggest hit makers of the entire rock era, based on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Charts. Dionne Warwick is second only to Aretha Franklin as the most-charted female vocalist of all time, with 69 of Warwick's singles making the Billboard Hot 100 between 1962 and 1998.

Early life and family

Marie Dionne Warrick (Dionne Warwick) was born to Lee Drinkard and Mancel Warrick.^{[citation needed]} Marie Dionne Warrick (she would later change the spelling of her surname) was born on December 12, 1940 in East Orange, New Jersey, to Lee (née Drinkard; 1920–2005) and Mancel Warrick (1911–1977),^{[citation needed]} the former who was manager of The Drinkard Singers (see below), and the latter who began his career as a Pullman porter and subsequently became a chef, a gospel record promoter for Chess Records, and, finally, a CPA.^[1] Dionne has a sister Delia ("Dee Dee") and a brother, Mancel Jr., who was killed in an accident in 1968 at the age of 21. Her parents were both African American, and she also has Native American, Brazilian, and Dutch ancestry.^[2]

Warwick's mother, aunts and uncles were members of the Drinkard Singers, a renowned family gospel group and RCA recording artists that frequently performed throughout the New York metropolitan area. The Drinkards relocated from Blakely, Georgia to Newark, New Jersey in 1923. The family was composed of Warwick's grandparents, Nitcholas and Delia Drinkard, and their children: William, Lee (Warwick's mother), Marie, Hansom, Anne, Larry, Nicky, and Emily also known as Cissy (singer and mother of Whitney Houston and grandmother of Bobbi Kristina Brown). Warwick's paternal grandfather, Elzae Warrick, was the preacher at St. Luke's AME, the church attended by the Drinkard family.

The original Drinkard Singers (known as the Drinkard Jubilairs) consisted of Cissy, Anne, Larry, and Nicky. Marie instructed the group and they were managed by Lee. As they became more successful, Lee and Marie began performing with the group, and they were augmented by Judy Guoins, later known as pop/R&B singer Judy Clay, whom Lee had unofficially adopted. Elvis Presley eventually expressed an interest in having them join his touring entourage. Dionne began singing gospel as a child at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey.^[3]

Warwick grew up in a racially mixed middle-class neighborhood. She stated in an interview on The Biography Channel in 2002 that the neighborhood in East Orange "was literally the United Nations of neighborhoods. We had every nationality, every creed, every religion right there on our street." Warwick was untouched by the harsher aspects of racial intolerance and discrimination until her early professional career, when she began touring nationally.

Education

Warwick graduated from East Orange High School in 1959 and was awarded a scholarship in Music Education to the Hartt College of Music in Hartford, Connecticut (where she earned a master's degree and which would later award her an honorary doctorate^[4] in Music Education in 1973.).

Early performances

Warrick performed her first gospel solo at the age of six and frequently joined The Drinkard Singers. Her first televised performances were in the mid-and late 1950s with the Drinkard Singers on local television stations in New Jersey and New York City.

In 1958, Warwick, Myrna Utley, Carol Slade, and Warwick's sister Delia, who by this time had begun to be known professionally as Dee Dee Warwick, formed their own group, which they called "The Gospelaires."^[5] Their first performance together was at the Apollo Theater, where they won the weekly amateur contest.^[6]

Career

Early career, The Gospelaires

Various other singers joined The Gospelaires from time to time, including Judy Clay, Cissy Houston, and Doris "Rikii" Troy, whose chart selection "Just One Look," when she recorded it in 1963, featured backing vocals from the Gospelaires. After various personnel changes (Dionne and Doris left the group after achieving solo success), The Gospelaires eventually became the recording group the Sweet Inspirations, which had some chart success, but were much sought-after as studio background singers. The Gospelaires and later the Sweet Inspirations performed on many records cut in New York City for artists such as Garnet Mimms, The Drifters, Jerry Butler, Solomon Burke and later Dionne's recordings, Aretha Franklin, and Elvis Presley.^{[citation needed]} Warwick recalled, in her 2002 A&E Biography, that "a man came running frantically backstage at The Apollo and said he needed background singers for a session for Sam "The Man" Taylor and old big-mouth here spoke up and said 'We'll do it!' and we left and did the session. I wish I remembered the gentleman's name because he was responsible for the beginning of my professional career."

The backstage encounter led to the group being asked to sing background sessions at recording studios in New York. Soon, the group was in demand in New York music circles for their background work for such artists as The Drifters, Ben E. King, Chuck Jackson, Dinah Washington, Ronnie "The Hawk" Hawkins, and Solomon Burke among many others. Warwick remembered, in her A&E Biography,^{[full citation needed]} that after school, they would catch a bus from East Orange to the Port Authority Terminal, and then subway to recording studios in Manhattan, perform their background gigs and be back at home in East Orange in time to do their school homework. The background vocal work would continue while Warwick pursued her studies at Hartt.

Discovery

While she was performing background on The Drifters's recording of "Mexican Divorce," Warwick's voice and star presence were noticed by the song's composer, Burt Bacharach, a Brill Building songwriter who was writing songs with many other songwriters, including lyricist Hal David.^[7] According to a July 14, 1967 article on Warwick from Time, Bacharach stated, "She has a tremendous strong side and a delicacy when singing softly — like miniature ships in bottles." Musically, she was "no play-safe girl. What emotion I could get away with!" And what complexity, compared with the usual run of pop songs. During the session, Bacharach asked Warwick, if she would be interested in recording demonstration recordings of his compositions to be used to pitch the tunes to record labels. One such demo, "It's Love That Really Counts" — destined to be recorded by Scepter-signed act The Shirelles — caught the attention of the President of Scepter Records, Florence Greenberg, who, according to Current Biography (1969 Yearbook), told Bacharach, "Forget the song, get the girl!"^[8]

Warwick was signed to Bacharach's and David's production company, according to Warwick, which in turn was signed to Scepter Records in 1962 by Greenberg. The partnership would provide Bacharach with the freedom to produce Warwick without the control of recording company executives and company A&R men. Warwick's musical ability and education would also allow Bacharach to compose more challenging tunes.^[7] The demo version of "It's Love That Really Counts", along with her original demo of "Make It Easy on Yourself", would surface on Dionne's debut Scepter album, Presenting Dionne Warwick, which was released in early 1963.^[8]

Early stardom

In November 1962, Scepter Records released her first solo single, "Don't Make Me Over", the title (according to the A&E Biography of Dionne Warwick) Warwick supplied herself when she snapped the phrase at producers Burt Bacharach and Hal David in anger. Warwick had found out that "Make It Easy on Yourself" — a song on which she had recorded the original demo and had wanted to be her first single release — had been given to another artist, Jerry Butler. From the phrase "don't make me over", Bacharach and David created their first top 40 pop hit (#21) and a top 5 U.S. R&B hit. Warrick's name was misspelled on the single's label, and she began using the new spelling (i.e., "Warwick") both professionally and personally.^[9]

According to the July 14, 1967 Time magazine article,^{[full citation needed]} after "Don't Make Me Over" hit in 1962, she answered the call of her manager ("C'mon, baby, you gotta go"), left school and went on a tour of France, where critics crowned her "Paris' Black Pearl," having been introduced on stage at Paris Olympia that year by Marlene Dietrich. Rhapsodized Jean Monteaux in Arts: "The play of this voice makes you think sometimes of an eel, of a storm, of a cradle, a knot of seaweed, a dagger. It is not a voice so much as an organ. You could write fugues for Warwick's voice."

The two immediate follow-ups to "Don't Make Me Over" — "This Empty Place" (with "B" Side "Wishin' and Hopin' " later covered by Dusty Springfield) and "Make The Music Play" — charted briefly in the top 100. Her fourth single, "Anyone Who Had a Heart,"^[7] released in December 1963, was Warwick's first top 10 pop hit (#8) in the U.S. and also an international million seller. This was followed by "Walk On By" in April 1964, a major international hit and million seller that solidified her career. For the rest of the 1960s, Warwick was a fixture on the U.S. and Canadian charts, and much of Warwick's output from 1962 to 1971 was written and produced by the Bacharach/David team.

Warwick weathered the British Invasion better than most American artists. Her UK hits were most notably "Walk On By" and "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?"^[7] In the UK, a number of Bacharach-David-Warwick songs were covered by British singers Cilla Black, Sandie Shaw and Dusty Springfield, most notably Black's "Anyone Who Had a Heart" which went to No. 1 in the UK. This upset Warwick and she has described feeling insulted when told that in the UK, record company executives wanted her songs recorded by someone else. Warwick even met Cilla Black while on tour in Britain. She recalled what she said to her: "I told her that "You're My World" would be my next single in the States. I honestly believe that if I'd sneezed on my next record, then Cilla would have sneezed on hers too. There was no imagination in her recording."^[10] Dionne later covered 2 of Cilla's songs - "You're My World" appeared on Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls, released in 1968 and Alfie.

Warwick was named the Bestselling Female Vocalist in the Cash Box Magazine Poll in 1964, with six chart hits in that year. Cash Box named her the Top Female Vocalist in 1969, 1970 and 1971. In the 1967 Cash Box Poll, she was second to Petula Clark, and in 1968's poll second to Aretha Franklin. Playboy's influential Music Poll of 1970 named her the Top Female Vocalist. In 1969, Harvard's Hasty Pudding Society named her Woman of the Year.

In the May 21, 1965 Time cover article entitled "The Sound of the Sixties," Dionne Warwick's sound was described as follows:

"Swinging World. Scholarly articles probe the relationship between the Beatles and the nouvelle vague films of Jean-Luc Godard, discuss 'the brio and elegance' of Dionne Warwick's singing style as a 'pleasurable but complex' event to be 'experienced without condescension.' In chic circles, anyone damning rock 'n' roll is labeled not only square but uncultured. For inspirational purposes, such hip artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers and Andy Warhol occasionally paint while listening to rock 'n' roll music. Explains Warhol: 'It makes me mindless, and I paint better.' After gallery openings in Manhattan, the black-tie gatherings often adjourn to a discothèque."^{[citation needed]}

1965 007 James Bond Theme - Eon Productions intended to use a song titled "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" by Dionne Warwick as the theme song of Thunderball until Albert Broccoli insisted the theme song must include the film's title Thunderball. A new song was composed and recorded in the eleventh hour titled "Thunderball", performed by Tom Jones. The melody of "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" remains a major component of the film score. The Ultimate Edition DVD of Thunderball has the Dionne song over the titles on one of the commentary track extras and the song was released on the 30th anniversary CD of Bond songs.

Mid-1960s to early 1970s

The mid-1960s to early 1970s became an even more successful time period for Warwick, who saw a string of Gold selling albums and Top 20 and Top 10 hit singles. "Message to Michael", a Bacharach-David composition^[7] that the duo was certain was a "man's song", became a top 10 hit for Warwick in May 1966. The January 1967 LP Here Where There Is Love was her first RIAA certified Gold Album and featured "Alfie", and two 1966 hits: "Trains and Boats and Planes" and "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself". "Alfie" had become a radio hit when disc jockeys across the nation began to play the album cut early in 1967. "Alfie" was released as the "B" side of a Bacharach/David ballad, "The Beginning of Loneliness", which charted in the Hot 100. Disc jockeys flipped the single and made it a double-sided hit. Bacharach had been contracted to produce "Alfie" for the Michael Caine film of the same name and wanted Dionne Warwick to sing the tune but the British producers wanted a British subject to cut the tune. Cilla Black was selected to record the song, and her version peaked at #95 upon its release in the USA. A cover version by Cher used in the USA prints of the film peaked at #33. In the UK and Australia, Black's version was a Top 10 hit.^] In a 1983 concert appearance televised on PBS, Warwick states she was the 43rd person to record "Alfie," at Bacharach's insistence, who felt Dionne could make it a big hit. Warwick, at first, balked at recording the tune and asked Bacharach "How many more versions of Alfie do you need?" to which Bacharach replied "Just one more, yours." Bacharach took Warwick into the studio with his new arrangement and cut the tune the way he wanted it to be, which she nailed in one take. Warwick's version peaked at #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on both the R&B Chart and the AC Charts. She performed the song at the Academy Awards in 1967. Today, "Alfie" is considered a signature song for Warwick.

Later that same year, Warwick earned her first RIAA Certified Gold Single for U.S. sales of over one million units for the single "I Say a Little Prayer" (from her album The Windows of the World). When disc jockeys across the nation began to play the track from the album in the fall of 1967 and demanded its release as a single, Florence Greenberg, President of Scepter Records, complied and "I Say a Little Prayer" became Warwick's biggest U.S. hit to that point, reaching #4 on the U.S. and Canadian Charts and # 8 on the R & B Charts. The tune was also the first RIAA certified USA million seller for Bacharach-David.^{[citation needed]} Aretha Franklin would later cover the tune, reaching #10 on the US Charts.

Her follow-up to "I Say a Little Prayer," "(Theme from) Valley of the Dolls," was unusual in several respects. It was not written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, it was the "B" side of her "I Say a Little Prayer" single, and it was a song that she almost didn't record. While the film version of Valley of the Dolls was being made, actress Barbara Parkins suggested that Warwick be considered to sing the film's theme song, written by songwriting team André and Dory Previn. The song was to be recorded by Judy Garland, who was subsequently fired from the film. Warwick performed the song, and when the film became a success in the early weeks of 1968, disc jockeys flipped the single and made the single one of the biggest double-sided hits of the rock era and another million seller. At the time, RIAA rules allowed only one side of a double-sided hit single to be certified as Gold, but Scepter awarded Warwick an "in-house award" to recognize "(Theme from) Valley of the Dolls" as a million selling tune.

Warwick had re-recorded a Pat Williams-arranged version of the theme at A&R Studios in New York because contractual restrictions with her label would not allow the Warwick version from the film to be included in the 20th Century Fox soundtrack LP, and reverse legal restrictions would not allow the film version to be used anyplace else in a commercial LP. The LP Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls, released in early 1968 and containing the re-recorded version of the movie theme (#2–4 weeks), "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" and several new Bacharach-David compositions, hit the #6 position on the Billboard album chart and would remain on the chart for over a year. The film soundtrack LP, without Warwick vocals, failed to impress the public, while Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls earned an RIAA Gold certification.

The single "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?", an international million seller and a Top 10 hit in several countries, including the UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Japan and Mexico, was also a double sided hit with the "B" side "Let Me Be Lonely" charting at #79. More hits followed into 1971, including "Who Is Gonna Love Me" (#32, 1968) with "B" side, "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" becoming another double-sided hit; "Promises, Promises" (#19, 1968); "This Girl's in Love with You" (#7, 1969); "The April Fools" (#37, 1969); "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" (#15, 1969); "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" (#6, 1969); "Make It Easy on Yourself" (#37, 1970); "Who Is Gonna Love Me" (#33, 1968); "Let Me Go to Him" (#32, 1970); and "Paper Mache" (#43, 1970). Warwick's final Bacharach/David penned single was March 1971's "Who Gets the Guy", and her final "official" Scepter single release was "He's Moving On" b/w "Amanda", both from the soundtrack of the motion picture adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's The Love Machine.

Warwick had become the priority act of Scepter Records, according to the website "The Scepter Records Story" and producer/A&R chief, Luther Dixon in a 2002 A&E Biography of Burt Bacharach, with the release of "Anyone Who Had a Heart" in 1963. Other Scepter LPs certified RIAA Gold include Dionne Warwick's Golden Hits Part 1 released in 1967 and The Dionne Warwicke Story: A Decade of Gold released in 1971. By the end of 1971, Dionne Warwick had sold an estimated thirty-five million singles and albums internationally in less than nine years and more than 16 million singles in the USA alone. Exact figures of Warwick's sales are unknown and probably underestimated, due to Scepter Records apparently lax accounting policies and the company policy of not submitting recordings for RIAA audit. Dionne Warwick became the first Scepter artist to request RIAA audits of her recordings in 1967 with the release of "I Say a Little Prayer."

On Wednesday, September 17, 1969, CBS Television aired Dionne Warwick's first television special entitled "The Dionne Warwick Chevy Special." Dionne's guests were Burt Bacharach, George Kirby, Glen Campbell, and Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Warwick with First Lady Pat Nixon, 1971

In 1971, Dionne Warwick left the family atmosphere of Scepter Records for Warner Bros. Records, for a $5 million contract, the most lucrative recording contract ever given to a female vocalist up to that time, according to Variety. Warwick's last LP for Scepter was the aforementioned soundtrack for the motion picture The Love Machine (in which she appeared in an uncredited cameo), released in July 1971. In 1975, Bacharach and David sued Scepter Records for an accurate accounting of royalties due the team from their recordings with Warwick and labelmate B.J. Thomas. They were awarded almost $600,000 and the rights to all Bacharach/David recordings on the Scepter label. The label, with the defection of Warwick to Warner Bros. Records, filed for bankruptcy in 1975 and was sold to Springboard International Records in 1976.

Following her signing with Warners, with Bacharach and David as writers and producers, Dionne returned to New York City's A&R Studios in late 1971 to begin recording her first album for the new label, the self-titled album Dionne (not to be confused with her later Arista debut album) in January 1972. The album peaked at #57 on the Billboard Hot 100 Album Chart. In 1972, Burt Bacharach and Hal David scored and wrote the tunes for the motion picture Lost Horizon. But the film was panned by the critics, and in the fallout from the film, the songwriting duo decided to terminate their working relationship. The break-up left Dionne devoid of their services as her producers and songwriters. Dionne was contractually obligated to fulfill her contract with Warners without Bacharach and David and she would team with a variety of producers during her tenure with the label.

Faced with the prospect of being sued by Warner Bros. Records due to the breakup of Bacharach/David and their failure to honor their contract with Dionne, she filed a $5.5 million lawsuit against her former partners for breach of contract. The suit was settled out of court in 1979 for $5 million including the rights to all Warwick recordings produced by Bacharach and David.

Warner era (1972–1978)

Without the guidance and songwriting that Bacharach/David had provided, Warwick's career stalled in the 1970s. There were no big hits during the decade aside from 1974's "Then Came You", recorded as a duet with the Spinners and produced by Thom Bell. Bell later noted, "Dionne made a (strange) face when we finished [the song]. She didn't like it much, but I knew we had something. So we ripped a dollar in two, signed each half and exchanged them. I told her, 'If it doesn't go number one, I'll send you my half.' When it took off, Dionne sent hers back. There was an apology on it." It was her first U.S. #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Other than this success, Warwick's five years on Warner Bros. Records produced no other major hits. Two notable songs recorded during this period were "His House and Me" and "Once You Hit The Road" (#79 pop, #5 R&B, #22 Adult Contemporary) — both of which were produced in 1975 by Thom Bell.^{[citation needed]}

Warwick recorded five albums with Warners: Dionne (1972), produced by Bacharach and David and a modest chart success; Just Being Myself (1973), produced by Holland-Dozier-Holland; Then Came You (1975), produced by Jerry Ragovoy; Track of the Cat (1975), produced by Thom Bell; and Love at First Sight (1977), produced by Steve Barri and Michael Omartian. The singer's five-year contract with Warners expired in 1977, and with that, Warwick ended her stay at the label.^{[citation needed]}

The 1980s: Move to Arista

With the move to Arista Records and the release of her RIAA certified million seller "I'll Never Love This Way Again" in 1979, Dionne was again enjoying top success on the charts. The song was produced by Barry Manilow. The accompanying album, Dionne, was certified Platinum in the United States for sales exceeding one million units. The album peaked at #12 on the Billboard Album Chart and made the Top 10 of the Billboard R&B Albums Chart. Warwick had been personally signed and guided by the label's founder Clive Davis, who stated to Dionne "You may be ready to give the business up, but the business is not ready to give you up." Dionne's next single release was another major hit for her. "Deja Vu" was co-written by Isaac Hayes and hit #1 Adult Contemporary as well as #15 on Billboard's Hot 100. In 1980, Dionne won the NARAS Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female for "I'll Never Love This Way Again" and Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female for "Déjà Vu". Dionne became the first female artist in the history of the awards to win in both categories the same year. Her second Arista album, 1980's No Night So Long sold 500,000 U.S. copies and featured the title track which became a major success — hitting #1 Adult Contemporary and #23 on Billboard's Hot 100 — and the album peaked at #23 on the Billboard Albums Chart.

In January 1980, while under contract to Arista Records, Dionne Warwick hosted a two-hour TV special called Solid Gold '79. This was adapted into the weekly one-hour show Solid Gold, which she hosted throughout 1980 and 1981 and again in 1985–86. Major highlights of each show were the duets she performed with her co-hosts, which often included some of Dionne's hits and her co-hosts' hits intermingled and arranged by Solid Gold musical director, Michael Miller. Another highlight in each show was Warwick's vocal rendition of the Solid Gold Theme, composed by Michael Miller (with lyrics by Dean Pitchford).

After a brief appearance in the Top Forty in early 1982 with Johnny Mathis on "Friends in Love" — from the album of the same name — Warwick's next hit later that same year was her full-length collaboration with Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees for the album Heartbreaker. The song became one of Dionne's biggest international hits, returning her to the Top 10 of Billboard's Hot 100 as well as #1 Adult Contemporary and No. 2 in both Great Britain and Australia. Internationally, the tune was also a Top 10 hit throughout continental Europe, Australia (#1), Japan, South Africa, Canada and Asia. The title track was taken from the album of the same name which sold over 3 million copies internationally and earned Dionne an RIAA USA Gold record award for the album. In Britain, the disc was certified Platinum. Dionne later stated to Wesley Hyatt in his 'Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits' that she was not initially fond of "Heartbreaker" but recorded the tune because she trusted the Bee Gees' judgment that it would be a hit. The project came about when Clive Davis was attending his aunt's wedding in Orlando, Florida in early 1982 and spoke with Barry Gibb. Barry mentioned that he had always been a fan of Dionne's and Clive arranged for Dionne and the Bee Gees to discuss a project. Dionne and the brothers Gibb obviously hit it off as both the album and the title single were released in October 1982 to massive success.

In 1983, Dionne released How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye produced by Luther Vandross. The album's most successful single was the title track, "How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye", a Warwick/Vandross duet, which peaked at #27 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also became a Top 10 hit on the Adult Contemporary and R&B charts. The album peaked at #57 on the Billboard album chart. Of note was a reunion with the original Shirelles on Warwick's cover of "Will You (Still) Love Me Tomorrow?" The album Finder Of Lost Loves followed in 1984 and reunited her with both Barry Manilow and Burt Bacharach, who was writing with his then current lyricist partner and wife, Carole Bayer Sager. In 1985, Warwick contributed her voice to the multi-Grammy Award winning charity song We Are the World, along with vocalists like Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, and Ray Charles. The song spent four consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. It was the year's biggest hit — certified four times Platinum in the United States alone.

In 1985, Warwick recorded the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) benefit single "That's What Friends Are For" alongside Gladys Knight, Elton John and Stevie Wonder. The single, credited to "Dionne and Friends" was released in October and eventually raised over three million dollars for that cause. The tune was a triple #1 — R&B, Adult Contemporary, and four weeks at the summit on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1986 — selling close to two million 45s in the United States alone. In 1988, the Washington Post wrote: "So working against AIDS, especially after years of raising money for work on many blood-related diseases such as sickle-cell anemia, seemed the right thing to do. You have to be granite not to want to help people with AIDS, because the devastation that it causes is so painful to see. I was so hurt to see my friend die with such agony", Warwick remembers. "I am tired of hurting and it does hurt." The single won the performers the NARAS Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, as well as Song of the Year for its writers, Bacharach and Bayer Sager. It also was ranked by Billboard magazine as the most popular song of 1986. With this single Warwick also released her most successful album of the 1980s, titled Friends, which reached #12 on Billboard's album chart.

In 1987 Dionne scored another hit with "Love Power". Her eighth career #1 Adult Contemporary hit, it also reached #5 in R&B and #12 on Billboard's Hot 100. A duet with Jeffrey Osborne, it was also written by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager, and it was featured in Warwick's album Reservations for Two. The album's title song, a duet with Kashif, was also a chart hit. Other artists featured on the album included Smokey Robinson and June Pointer.

1990s to present

Dionne Sings Cole Porter (1990) Album Produced by Arif Mardin. During the 1990s, Warwick hosted infomercials for the Psychic Friends Network, which featured self-described psychic Linda Georgian. The 900 number psychic service was active from 1991 to 1998. According to press statements throughout the 1990s, the program was the most successful infomercial for several years and Warwick earned in excess of three million dollars per year as spokesperson for the network. In 1998, Inphomation, the corporation owning the network, filed for bankruptcy and Warwick ended her association with the organisation. Warwick's longtime friend and tour manager Henry Carr acknowledged in a 2002 Biography Channel interview that "when Dionne was going through an airport and a child recognized her as 'that psychic lady on TV' Dionne was crushed and said she had worked too hard as an entertainer to become known as 'the psychic lady'."

Warwick's most publicized album during this period was 1993's Friends Can Be Lovers, which was produced in part by Ian Devaney and Lisa Stansfield. Featured on the album was "Sunny Weather Lover", which was the first song that Burt Bacharach and Hal David had written together for Warwick since 1972. It was Warwick's lead single in the United States, and was heavily promoted by Arista, but failed to chart. A follow-up "Where My Lips Have Been" peaked at #95 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks. The 1994 Aquarela Do Brasil album marked the end of Warwick's contract with Arista Records.^{[citation needed]} In 1990, Dionne recorded a song "It's All Over" with former member of Modern Talking Dieter Bohlen (Blue System). The single peaked at #60 (#33 airplay) on the German pop charts and it was covered on Blue System's album "Déjà Vu".

In 1993, Forrest Sawyer, host of the ABC News/Entertainment program "Day One", alleged financial improprieties by the Warwick Foundation, founded in 1989 to benefit AIDS patients, particularly Dionne Warwick's charity concert performances organized to benefit the organization. ABC alleged the Foundation was operating at a near 90% administrative cost. ABC alleged that Warwick flew first class and was accommodated at first class hotels for charity concerts and events in which she participated for the Foundation. Warwick, who had no executive, administrative or management role in the organization, challenged ABC to investigate the foundation further and alleged that the ABC report was racially motivated. An Internal Revenue Service investigation of the Warwick Foundation found no wrongdoing or criminal activity on the part of the Board of Directors or Warwick and its status as a non-profit charity was upheld. ABC maintained the report to be factually correct but the item has not been repeated since the original air date. The Foundation was later dissolved.

On October 16, 2002, Warwick was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In 2004, Dionne Warwick's first Christmas album was released. The CD, entitled My Favorite Time of the Year featured jazzy interpretations of many holiday classics. In 2007, Rhino Records re-released the CD with new cover art. In 2005, Warwick was honored by Oprah Winfrey at her Legends Ball. She appeared on the May 24, 2006, fifth-season finale of American Idol. Millions of U.S. viewers watched Warwick sing a medley of "Walk On By" and "That's What Friends Are For", with longtime collaborator Burt Bacharach accompanying her on the piano.

In 2006, Warwick signed with Concord Records after a fifteen-year tenure at Arista, which had ended in 1994. Her first and only release for the label was My Friends and Me, a duets album containing reworkings of her old hits, very similar in fashion to her 1998 CD "Dionne Sings Dionne". Among her singing partners were Gloria Estefan, Olivia Newton-John, Wynonna Judd and Reba McEntire. The album peaked at #66 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The album was produced by her son, Damon Elliott. A follow-up album featuring Warwick's old hits as duets with male vocalists was planned but the project was cancelled. The relationship with Concord concluded with the release of My Friends and Me. A compilation CD of her greatest hits and love songs "The Love Collection" entered the UK pop charts at number 27 on February 16, 2008.

Dionne Warwick's second gospel album, "Why We Sing", was released on February 26, 2008 in the United Kingdom and on April 1, 2008 in the United States. The album features guest spots by her sister Dee Dee Warwick and BeBe Winans. On October 18, 2008, Dee Dee Warwick died in a nursing home in Essex County, New Jersey. She had been in failing health for several months. On November 24, 2008, Dionne was the star performer on "Divas II" a UK ITV1 special. The show also featured Rihanna, Leona Lewis, the Sugababes, Pink, Gabriella Climi and Anastacia. In 2008, Dionne began recording an album of songs from the Sammy Cahn and Jack Wolf songbooks. The finished recording, entitled Only Trust Your Heart, was released in 2011.

On October 20, 2009, Starlight Children's Foundation and New Gold Music Ltd. released a song that Dionne recorded about 10 years prior called "Starlight". The lyrics had been written by Dean Pitchford, prolific writer of Fame, screenwriter of — and sole or joint lyricist of every song in the soundtrack of — the original 1984 film Footloose, and lyricist of the Solid Gold theme, and the music had been composed by Bill Goldstein, whose versatile career included the original music for NBC's Fame TV series. Dionne, Dean and Bill announced that they were donating 100% of their royalties to Starlight Children's Foundation as a way to raise money to support Starlight's mission to help seriously ill children and their families cope with their pain, fear and isolation through entertainment, education and family activities.

“When Bill and Dean brought this song to me, I instantly felt connected to its message of shining a little light into the lives of people who need it most”, said Warwick. “I admire the work of Starlight Children's Foundation and know that if the song brings hope to even just one sick child, we have succeeded.”

2011 New Jazz style CD Only Trust Your Heart released featuring many Sammy Cahn Songs. In March 2011, Warwick appeared on The Celebrity Apprentice 4. Dionne's charity was the Hunger Project. She was dismissed from her "apprenticeship" to Donald John Trump during the fourth task of the season. In February 2012, Warwick performed "Walk On By" on The Jonathan Ross Show. She also received the Goldene Kamera Musical Lifetime Achievement Award in Germany,^[11] and performed "That's What Friends Are For" at the ceremony.

On May 28, 2012, Warwick headlined the World Hunger Day concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. She sang the anthem, One World One Song,^[12] specially written for the Hunger Project by Tony Hatch and Tim Holder and was joined by Joe McElderry, the London Community Gospel Choir and a choir from Woodbridge School, Woodbridge, Suffolk.^[13]

2012 50th Anniversary CD entitled NOW is released - Dionne recorded 12 Bacharach David tracks produced by Phil Ramone . In September 19, 2013 she collaborated with country singer Billy Ray Cyrus for his song Hope is just ahead.

2014 New Duets Album Feels So Good Released .Funkytowngrooves re-issues Remastered Arista Albums - No Night So Long, How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye (So Amazing) and Finders Of Lost Loves (Without Your Love) all expanded with bonus material.

December 2015 Dionne's website releases Tropical Love EP 5 Tracks previously unreleased from the Aquarel Do Brasil Sessions in 1994 To Say Goodbye (Pra Dizer Adeus) with Edu Lobo Love Me Lullaby Bridges (Travessia) Rainy Day Girl with Ivan Lins www.dionnewarwickinternationalfanclub.com

2016 will see a Heartbreaker 2 disc expanded edition released by Funkytowngrooves which will be the original Heartbreaker album and up to 15 bonus tracks - a mixture of unreleased songs / alternate takes & instrumentals - with more Arista Albums remastered & expanded to follow.

Awards and honors

In My Life, as I See It: An Autobiography, Warwick lists her honorary doctorate from Hartt among those awarded by six other institutions: Hartt College, Bethune-Cookman University, Shaw University, Columbia College of Chicago, Lincoln College, Illinois [May 2010, Doctor of Arts (hon.)],^[14] and University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

Personal life

Dionne Warwick married actor and drummer William David Elliott (1934–1983)^[15] (CBS's Bridget Loves Bernie-1972–73) in 1966; they divorced in May 1967. They reconciled and were remarried in Milan, Italy, in August 1967, according to Time. Warwick has stated in many interviews that "It was a case of can't do with, can't do without, so I married him again".^{[citation needed]} On January 18, 1969, while living in East Orange, New Jersey, she gave birth to her first son, David Elliott. In 1973, her second son Damon Elliott was born. On May 30, 1975, the couple separated and Warwick was granted a divorce in December 1975 in Los Angeles. The court denied Elliott's request for $2000 a month in support pending a community property trial and for $5000, when Elliott insisted he was making $500 a month in comparison to Warwick making $100,000 a month. Dionne stated in Don't Make Me Over: Dionne Warwick, a 2002 Biography Channel interview, "I was the breadwinner. The male ego is a fragile thing. It's hard when the woman is the breadwinner. All my life, the only man who ever took care of me financially was my father. I have always taken care of myself."

Warwick, for years an aficionado of psychic phenomena,^{[according to whom?]} was advised by astrologer Linda Goodman in 1971 to add a small "e" to her last name, making Warwick "WARWICKe" for good luck and to recognize her married name and her spouse, actor and drummer William "Bill" Elliott.^{[citation needed]} Goodman convinced Warwick that the extra small "e" would add a vibration needed to balance her last name and bring her even more good fortune in her marriage and her professional life.^{[citation needed]} In retrospect, the extra "e," according to Dionne, "was the worst thing I could have done... and in 1975 I finally got rid of that damn 'e' and became 'Dionne Warwick' again."

In 2002 Warwick was arrested at Miami International Airport for possession of marijuana. It was discovered that she had 11 suspected marijuana cigarettes inside her carry on luggage, hidden in a lipstick container. She was charged with possessing marijuana totaling less than five grams.^[16]^[17]

Warwick made the Top 250 Delinquent Taxpayers List published in October 2007. California Revenue & Taxation Code Section 19195 directs the Franchise Tax Board to publish an annual list of the top 250 taxpayers with liened state income tax delinquencies greater than $100,000 in an effort to collect money from those taxpayers, some of whom have been delinquent since 1987. Warwick was listed with a tax delinquency of $2,665,305.83 in personal income tax and a tax lien was filed July 24, 1997.^{[citation needed]} The IRS eventually discovered that a large portion of the lien was due to an accounting error, and revoked $1.2mil of the tax lien in 2009.^[18]^[19]

Warwick lived in Brazil, a country she first visited in the early 1960s, until 2005, according to an interview with JazzWax, when she moved back to the United States to be near her ailing mother and sister. She became so entranced by Brazil that she studied Portuguese and divided her time between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. In April 2010, in an interview on talk-show Programa do Jô, she said Brazil was the place where she intended to spend the rest of her life after retiring.

In 1993, her older son David, a former Los Angeles police officer, co-wrote with Terry Steele the Warwick-Whitney Houston duet "Love Will Find a Way", featured on her album, Friends Can Be Lovers. Since 2002, he has toured with and performed duets with his mother periodically, and had his acting debut in the film "Ali" as the singer Sam Cooke. David became a singer-songwriter, with Luther Vandross' "Here and Now" among others to his credit.

Her second son, Damon Elliott, is also a noted music producer, who has worked with Mýa, Pink, Christina Aguilera and Keyshia Cole. He arranged and produced his mother's 2006 Concord release My Friends and Me. She received a 2014 Grammy Award nomination - in the Traditional Pop Category - for her 2013 album release, "Now".

On January 24, 2015, Warwick was hospitalized after a fall in the shower at her home. After ankle surgery, she was released from the hospital.^[20]^[21]

Bankruptcy

Warwick declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy in New Jersey on March 21, 2013.^[22] Due to the reported mismanagement of her business affairs, she lists liabilities that include nearly $7 million owed to the Internal Revenue Service for the years 1991 to 1999 and more than $3 million in business taxes owed to the state of California. Unable to work out an agreement with tax officials, she and her attorney decided that declaring bankruptcy would be the best course of action.^[23]

Relations

Warwick's sister Dee Dee Warwick also had a successful singing career, scoring several notable R&B hits, including the original version of "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" and "I Want To Be With You", from the Broadway version of the musical 'Golden Boy'. She also recorded the original version of the song You're No Good which later became an R&B hit for the late Betty Everett and also a #1 Pop smash for Linda Ronstadt . It was also covered by Liverpool group The Swinging Blue Jeans in 1964, reaching No.3 in UK and No.97 in US. This group also recorded 'Don't Make Me Over' and had a 1966 hit, reaching No. 31 in UK.
Dionne's cousin was the singer Whitney Houston, and her aunt is Gospel-trained vocalist Cissy Houston, Whitney's mother.
In her 2010 autobiography, My Life, as I See It, Warwick notes that opera diva Leontyne Price is a maternal cousin.

Discography

Main article: Dionne Warwick discography

Tours

Dionne Warwick Tour (1966)
Dionne: 40 Anniversary Tour (2002)
Soul Divas Tour (2004)
An Evening with Dionne (2007)

Awards and honors

Grammy Awards

Year	Recipient/Nominated work	Award	Result
1968	"Alfie"	Best Female Pop Vocal Performance	Nominated
1968	"I Say a Little Prayer"	Best Contemporary Female Solo Vocal Performance	Nominated
1969	"Do You Know the Way to San Jose"	Best Female Pop Vocal Performance	Won
1970	"This Girl's in Love with You"	Best Female Pop Vocal Performance	Nominated
1971	"I'll Never Fall in Love Again"	Best Female Pop Vocal Performance	Won
1975	"Then Came You" (with The Spinners)	Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group with Vocals	Nominated
1980	"I'll Never Love This Way Again"	Best Female Pop Vocal Performance	Won
1980	"Déjà Vu"	Best Female R&B Vocal Performance	Won
1987	"That's What Friends Are For" (with Elton John, Gladys Knight & Stevie Wonder)	Record of the Year	Nominated
		Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal	Won
	Friends	Best Female Pop Vocal Performance	Nominated
1992	"Superwoman" (with Gladys Knight & Patti LaBelle)	Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group	Nominated
2014	Now	Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album	Nominated

Grammy Hall of Fame

Year	Title	Genre	Label	Year Inducted
1967	"Alfie"	pop (single)	Scepter	2008
1962	"Don't Make Me Over"	pop (single)	Scepter	2000
1964	"Walk On By"	pop (single)	Scepter	1998

American Music Awards

Year	Category	Result
1987	Special Recognition Award: "That's What Friends Are For"	Honoree

Billboard Music Awards

Year	Category	Result
1987	#1 Single of the Year: "That's What Friends Are For"	Honoree

RIAA

Year	Category	Result
1964	Songs of the Century: "Walk on By"	Honoree
1985	Songs of the Century: "That's What Friends Are For"	Honoree

People's Choice Awards

Year	Category	Result
1975	Favorite Female Singer	Won

NAACP Image Awards

Year	Category	Result
1986	Entertainer of the Year^[24]	Honoree
1990	Key of Life Award^[25]^[26]	Honoree

ASCAP Awards

Year	Category	Result
1998	Lifetime Achievement Award	Honoree
2002	Heroes Award	Honoree

Rhythm & Blues Foundation

Year	Category	Result
2003	Lifetime Achievement Award	Honoree

Women's World Awards

Year	Category	Result
2004	Lifetime Achievement Award	Honoree

Trumpet Awards

Year	Category	Result
2007	Trumpet Living Legend Award	Honoree

Ride of Fame^[27]

Year	Category	Result
2012	Immortal	Honoree

Cash Box Magazine

Year		Category	Result
1964	Cash Box Magazine (Best Sellers)	#1 Female Vocalist	Won
1966		#1 R&B Female Vocalist
1966		#2 Pop Female Vocalist
1967		#2 Pop, #2 R&B
1968		#2 Pop, #2 R&B
1969		#1 Female Vocalist — Albums and Singles
1970
1971
1969		Radio's Most Programmed Female Vocalist
1970
1971

National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters Hall of Fame — Hitmaker Award-2001
Woman of the Year-1969 Harvard Hasty Pudding Society
Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or Nominee-Slaves-1969
Playboy Magazine Music Poll-Top Female Vocalist-1971;Playboy's All-Star Band for 1971-Female Vocals
National Association of Television and Radio Announcers-#1 R&B Vocalist-1971
Memphis Music Awards-Outstanding Female Vocalist-1971
WINNER-1980 Tokyo Intl POP Music Festival for her performance of "FEELING OLD FEELINGS" from her Arista debut album "Dionne" produced by Barry Manilow. The song was awarded Song of the Year (the equivalent of the Japanese Grammy)
Mayors Award and Key to the City-San Jose, California-1968
ACE Award Nominee for "Sisters in the Name of Love" — Dionne Warwick (HBO-1987)
United States Ambassador of Health — Appointed by Ronald Reagan-1987
Kleenex American Hero Award-1987
American Society of Young Musicians — Luminary Award-1997
National Music Foundation — Cultural Impact Award-1998
United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)-appointed 2002
NABFEME Shero Award (The National Association of Black Female Executives in Music & Entertainment)-2006
The Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival-Lifetime Career Achievement Award-2006
Miami Dade Life Time Achievement Award-2007 and Dionne Warwick Day-May 25
Starlight Foundation — Humanitarian of the Year Award
Bella Rackoff Women in Film — Humanitarian Award
Lincoln Elementary School in East Orange, NJ, honored her by renaming it to the Dionne Warwick Institute of Economics and Entrepreneurship
Howard Theatre Restoration Honoree - 2013 ^[28]

Filmography

Concerts

1966: Live from the Olympia in Paris-Sacha Distel and Dionne Warwick - Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française
1975: Dionne Warwick Live in Concert - Nationally Syndicated
1975: Dionne Warwick: In Performance at Wolftrap-PBS
1977: Dionne Warwick with the Edmonton Symphony-PBS
1980: Dionne Warwick: Live at the Park West- HBO
1982: Dionne Warwick: Live from Lake Tahoe - HBO
1983: Dionne Warwick: Live at the Rialto - PBS
1986: Sisters in the Name of Love - Dionne Warwick, Patti LaBelle and Gladys Knight
1988: Dionne Warwick with the Boston Pops - PBS
1988 Dionne Warwick: That's What Friends Are For Benefit Concert - HBO
1988: Dionne Warwick Live in London - BBC
1989: Dionne Warwick: Live in Australia - ABC
1995 Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach - Live from the Rainbow Room - A & E Network
2005: Prime Concerts: In Concert with Edmonton Symphony
2007: Dionne Warwick — Live
2008: Live in Cabaret July 18, 1975

As an actress

1969: Slaves - (film) Lead Role-Cassy
1970: The Name of the Game-I Love You Billy Baker-Part I
1970: The Name of the Game-I Love You Billy Baker-Part II
1971: The Love Machine (movie) Cameo Appearance and Performer (Main Theme Singer-"He's Movin' On and Amanda)
1976: Switch (TV series) - Sherry (Season One)
1977: Rockford Files-Television Series-Theda Moran
1977: Switch (TV series) - Sherry (Season 3)
1977: Switch (TV series) - Sherry - Part II
1988: Rent-A-Cop (film) - Beth
1991: Extralarge-Black and White (tv film)
1991: Extralarge-Miami Killer (tv film)
1991: Extralarge-Black Magic (tv film)
1992: Extralarge-Cannonball (tv film)
1992: Captain Planet and the Planeteers - Dr. Russell
1996: The Wayans Bros. - Mrs. Jackson
1998: The Bold and the Beautiful (1 episode)
1998: The Wayans Bros. (1 episode)
1999: Johnny Bravo (Season 2, Episode 3)
1999: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child - Miss Kitty
2000: Walker, Texas Ranger (Season 8, Episode "Faith")
2000: So Weird (Season 1, Episode 12 – "Lost")

Documentary film appearances

1968: Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over-A Documentary Film by Gary Keys
1977: The Day the Music Died
2002: The Making and Meaning of We Are Family
2001: The Teens Who Stole Popular Music A & E Films
2001: Don't Make Me Over: The Dionne Warwick Story A & E Films
2011: Michael Jackson: The Life of an Icon
2013: Voices of Love-Featuring Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick, Cissy Houston & The Drinkard Singers - A Documentary by Gary Keys

Compilations, Series, and Specials

1969: Dionne Warwick: Souled Out - CBS Television with Dionne's guests Burt Bacharach, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Glen Campbell
1970: An Evening with Burt Bacharach: Special Guest Dionne Warwick - NBC
1973: The Midnight Special: Host - Dionne Warwick- NBC
1974: The Dionne Warwick Special - Nationally Syndicated
1975: Music Country USA-Host Dionne Warwick - NBC
1976: The Original Rompin' Stompin', Hot & Heavy, Cool & Groovy All-Star Jazz Show - Host Dionne Warwick with Count Basie
1979: Solid Gold Countdown 1979 - Hosts Dionne Warwick and Glen Campbell
1980-1981 and 1985-1986: Solid Gold - Series Host
2002: A Tribute to Burt Bacharach & Hal David
2005: The 5th Dimension Travelling Sunshine Show
2005: Straight from the Heart Live, Vol. 1
2006: Flashbacks: Soul Sensations
2006: Flashbacks: Pop Parade
2008: Lost Concerts Series: Uptown Divas

Notes:

http://www.today.com/id/39949144/ns/today-today_books/t/dionne-warwick-recalls-her-first-time-stage/

Houston, Cissy (September 2, 2009). "Visionary Project Video Interview (bottom of page) — Cissy Houston: My Family, at the 1:00 mark". Retrieved February 11, 2012.

"New Jersey Women's History: Home Page". Scc.rutgers.edu. 2008-08-15. Retrieved 2012-11-07.

"Guest Artists of the Jack Elliott Legacy Project: Dionne Warwick", The Hartt School website; accessed July 27, 2015.

"Dionne Warwick — Dionne's Biography". Dionnewarwick.info. Retrieved 2012-11-07.

Goldscheider, Eric (2005-06-19). "Amateur Night at the Apollo". Eric-goldscheider.com. Retrieved 2012-11-07.

Dionne Warwick interviewed on the Pop Chronicles (1969)

Obituary for Florence Greenberg, nytimes.com, November 4, 1995; accessed July 27, 2015.

Wallechinsky, David, Wallace, Amy, The New Book of Lists, p.5. Canongate, 2005; ISBN 1-84195-719-4

"Internet Archive Wayback Machine". Web.archive.org. 2009-10-27. Archived from the original on 2009-10-27. Retrieved 2012-11-07.

"Die Goldene Kamera". Goldenekamera.de. 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2012-11-07.

"One World, One Song | The Hunger Project UK". Thehungerproject.co.uk. 2011-01-09. Retrieved 2012-10-31.

"Dionne Warwick and Friends Sing For The Hunger Project". Looktothestars.org. Retrieved 2012-10-31.

"Grammy Winner Dionne Warwick Receives Honorary Degree from Lincoln College" (Press release). Lincoln College. April 27, 2010. Retrieved August 30, 2011.

"William Elliott (II) (1934–1983)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2014-06-30.

"Dionne Warwick arrested for pot possession". Articles.cnn.com. 2002-05-13. Retrieved 2012-10-31.

"Dionne Warwick detained at Miami International Airport". Stop the drug war. Retrieved February 2, 2016.

Robert W. Wood (2012-04-18). "Dionne Warwick Proves IRS Tax Liens Can Be Wrong". Forbes. Retrieved 2012-10-31.

"IRS Issues an Apology to Dionne Warwick after a Tax Blunder in 2009". AccountingWEB. 2012-05-21. Retrieved 2012-10-31.

"Dionne Warwick Hospitalized After a Shower Accident". Love B Scott. February 6, 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2015.

"Dionne Warwick Shower Accident Lands Singer in Hospital". TMZ. February 6, 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2015.

In re Dionne Marie Warwick, case no. 13-15875-MS, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey (Newark Div.).

"Dionne Warwick files for bankruptcy in New Jersey". NY Post. Retrieved 26 March 2013.

"The Washington Afro-American, December 16, 1986". Retrieved 18 April 2015.

"The Victoria Advocate, December 3, 1990". Retrieved 18 April 2015.

"Observer-Reporter, December 3, 1990". Retrieved 18 April 2015.

We're betting this custom double-decker bus can make it to San Jose. Gray Line New York inducts Dionne Warwick into its Ride of Fame. Grammy. 13 November 2012.

"Howard Theatre Restoration". Howardtheatre.org. Retrieved 2014-06-08.

References

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Ayres, Sabra: Dionne Warwick's Charges Dropped in Plea Bargain, Associated Press, June 5, 2002.
Nathan, David (1999). The Soulful Divas: Personal Portraits of over a dozen divine divas from Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, & Diana Ross, to Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, & Janet Jackson. Watson-Guptill Publications. ISBN 0-8230-8425-6.
Current Biography. H. W. Wilson, Company. Current Biography Yearbook 1969. Subject: Dionne Warwick. 1969. H.W. Wilson Company, Chicago, Ill.
Current Biography. H. W. Wilson, Company. Current Biography Yearbook 1971. Subject: Burt Bacharach. 1971. H.W. Wilson Company, Chicago, Ill.
Hitmakers: The Teens Who Stole Popular Music: Dionne Warwick-Don't Make Me Over. Performers-Dionne Warwick main subject, Burt Bacharach, Dee Dee Warwick, Dick Clark, et al. A&E Entertainment Video. 2002.
Hitmakers: Burt Bacharach. Performers-Burt Bacharach main subject, Dionne Warwick, Angie Dickinson, Steve Lawrence, et al. A&E Entertainment Video. 2002.
Lifetime Television's Intimate Portrait: Dionne Warwick. Performers: Dionne Warwick, Lee Warrick, David Elliott, Damon Elliott, Cissy Houston, et al. Lifetime Entertainment Video. 2004.
'Dionne Warwick Profile". People Magazine. 15 October 1979. Time-Warner, Inc.
"Dionne Warwick." Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 1979. Rolling Stone Press.
"Dionne the Universal Warwick." Ebony Magazine, May 1968. Johnson Publications.
"The Sound of the Sixties." Time Magazine. May 21, 1965. Time, Inc.
'Spreading the Faith." Time Magazine. July 14, 1967. Time, Inc.
"Dionne Warwick Married." Time Magazine. September 8, 1967. Time, Inc.

External links

Book: Dionne Warwick

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dionne Warwick.

Dionne's AllMusic Guide page
VH1 Site
Rolling Stone Site
Billboard Chart History (since 1983)
Dionne Warwick at the Internet Movie Database
The Scepter Records Story
Dionne Warwick page, RedEntertainment.com
Dionnewarwickinternationalfanclub.com
Appearances on C-SPAN

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