Definitive Collection
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Arista |
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Description: This 20-track career overview's problems are summed up by the differences between two songs. "I'll Never Fall in Love Again," released in 1969, came near the end of Warwick's classic collaborative period with Burt Bacharach and Hal David; contrast its witty approach to heartbreak ("What do you get when you kiss a guy? / You get enough germs to catch pneumonia / And after you do, he'll never phone ya") with "I'll Never Love This Way Again," the single that launched her chart comeback a decade later. That track encapsulates everything wrong with late-'70s easy listening, right down to the turgid Barry Manilow production. Saddest, though, is Warwick's capitulation to empty displays of technique over the perfectly sung vulnerability she specialized in with Bacharach and David. Skip this set in favor of
The Dionne Warwick Collection, 24 masterpieces from the earlier period that will rarely be far from your CD player. As for Warwick's terrific 1974 meeting with the Spinners on "Then Came You," you'd do better to check out a greatest-hits set by those smooth-soul champs.
--Rickey Wright
Tracklist of Definitive Collection
Reviews:
A CLASSIC GEM!!!!
This is an exceptional album by a true Diva Dionne was a beautiful woman and she still is nice looking today Back in the day she really made some real nice music I realy do like her voice she has nice, light, and sultry voice and she can really sing and she had a lot of class style, and grace and she really sung some nice songs!!! I like just about every song on this album and it may be because I don't know it but I am sure once I learn it I would love every track on this album and I would recommend any Dionne Warwick, Glady's Knight, and Patti Labelle fan to buy this album!!!
Love it!
This CD,though there are some good Dionne Warwick songs that it doesn't contain,what it does contain is great!I've always loved the song "Deja Vu" and there are plenty others that are very enjoyable on this disc.I recommend it.
THE ONLY DIONNE WARWICK CD YOU'LL EVER NEED
I bought this collection after hearing Dionne's newest album Dionne Sings Dionne and after hearing Do You Know The Way To San Jose {My Favorite} played constantly on the loudspeaker at Disney's California Adventure and then I fell in love with this collection. I liked hearing the original Walk On By and the love ballad Don't Make Me Over. The Joan Baezish The Windows Of The World sounds very folky and should be played on radio today. A bit of trivia for all you Dionne fans This song was a giant hit part not because of her biggest top hit but it became a anthem for troops during the Vietnam War. The latter part covers Dionne's Hits from 1979-87 and contains the Barry Manilow penned After You and the lovely I'll Never Love This Way Again that is taken from her Arista Debut Dionne. Other Tracks include Reservations for Two and features Jazz singer Kashif {Pronounced KASH-eef} from Dionne's 1987 album of the same name and the fun Heartbreaker. It would be nice if there is a volume II of this definitive collection but until then,
"I'LL BE ON YOUR SIDE FOREVER MORE THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR"
Enjoy,
Regis