- Audio CD (20 Mar 2006)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Warner Platinum
- ASIN: B000EIEJGO
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 186,922 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
A very strange collection of tracks on this Rhino CD, but a very welcome release none-the-less.
The first Ten Tracks come from Dionne's Scepter years, but only YOU'LL NEVER GET TO HEAVEN & I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER, both hit singles will be familiar to most,the other eight are from her many albums as well as a couple of B Sides.
Now we come to the remaining tracks taken from her 'Wilderness years with Warner Bros'
ONE LESS BELL, LOVE SONG. and a new version of CLOSE TO YOU are from the beautiful DIONNE album (WILL SOMEONE PLEASE RELEASE THIS ON CD) Dionne was still teamed with Bacarach & David at the time, and had added an extra E to her surname, but when the duo left the label, WB seemed not to know what to do with her. Holland/Dozier/Holland produced her next album with nothing very spectacular except the very beautiful YOU ARE THE HEART OF ME, later recorded by Mary Wilson of the Supremes. Dionne teamed up with the Spinners and the result was a No 1 hit single Then Came You. From the album of the same name comes SURE THING with Dionne's voice in high register mode on this soaring ballad. Track Of The Cat (another album that should be released on CD) was produced by Thom Bell and the combination of his production along side Ms Warwick's silky tones make JEALOUSY and WORLD OF MY DREAMS standout tracks. The final track is much sort after by Dionne's army of fans. I DIDN'T MEAN TO LOVE YOU was released as a single but withdrawn after three weeks. It's 6 minutes of pure delight with a no hold bars crescendo that's not been heard since Don't Make Me Over.
Performance and Quality is definately Five Star but this CD seems to me to be a strange mixture of tracks. Better I think would have been a compilation CD of the best of her Warner years, or better still the Five albums released in their entirity plus bonus tracks of unissued material which I'm sure must exist. Don't let this put you off buying this CD which is a excellent addition to the Warwick (with or without the extra E) collection.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
There are so many compilations of Dionne's work out there that, if you are a fan, like me, you probably have all these tracks several times over but that is what makes this CD the best Dionne bargain ever to appear on Amazon.
This sounds like a mixtape pulled together by a lifelong fan who just wanted everybody to hear their very own favourites for as well as a couple of total classic standards like You'll Never Get to Heaven and I Say a Little Prayer you have wonderfully yummy album tracks like World of My Dreams ( a stoned track if ever there was one), The Wine is Young a lost Bacharach/David classic the like of which will never be seen again ~ this roams into Sondheim territory ~ like a great show tune.
I could list every track as the compiler is so on my Dionne wavelength, there is even a familiar segue as For the Rest of My Life blends into Whoever You Are, I Love You and a little later on one of B/Ds greatest ever songs One Less Bell To Answer is answered with Lesley Duncan's charming Love Song.
At the time of writing there are new copies of this CD for sale for the grand sum of £0.01p so you, dear reader, could buy a whole bag full and distribute to your friends and lovers. This is the music that can give us a vestige of peace for a while in our crazy crazy world.
This sounds like a mixtape pulled together by a lifelong fan who just wanted everybody to hear their very own favourites for as well as a couple of total classic standards like You'll Never Get to Heaven and I Say a Little Prayer you have wonderfully yummy album tracks like World of My Dreams ( a stoned track if ever there was one), The Wine is Young a lost Bacharach/David classic the like of which will never be seen again ~ this roams into Sondheim territory ~ like a great show tune.
I could list every track as the compiler is so on my Dionne wavelength, there is even a familiar segue as For the Rest of My Life blends into Whoever You Are, I Love You and a little later on one of B/Ds greatest ever songs One Less Bell To Answer is answered with Lesley Duncan's charming Love Song.
At the time of writing there are new copies of this CD for sale for the grand sum of £0.01p so you, dear reader, could buy a whole bag full and distribute to your friends and lovers. This is the music that can give us a vestige of peace for a while in our crazy crazy world.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
C'mon...0.01p 'New'......and it's Dionne for goodness sake...9 out of 16 tracks by Burt...but not all included in the Dionne Sings Burt collection....other songs are less familiar but beautifully sung of course.....Great songs, Great vocals, Great value.........is the price anything to do with the writing credits appearing as (sic)Bacharach/Hal...as opposed to Bacharach/David....printing error? Buy and enjoy....
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