DIONNE WARWICK - Hits & Rarities 1974-1999 (CD 2018) **NEW** -- OUT OF PRINT!

Although Warwick grew up singing in church, she is not a gospel singer. Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan are clear influences, but she is not a jazz singer. R&B is also part of her background, yet she is not really a soul singer, either, at least not in the sense that Aretha Franklin was. Sophisticated is a word often used to describe Warwick's musical approach and the music she sings, but she is not a singer of standards such as Lena Horne or Nancy Wilson. A pop singer of a sort with an aching yet detached alto voice, Warwick could only have emerged out of the Brill Building environment of post-Elvis Presley, pre-Beatles pop in the early '60s. That's when she hooked up with Burt Bacharach and Hal David, songwriters and producers who tailored their unusually complicated songs for her distinctive instrument. While Warwick is inescapably associated with those songs, she managed to thrive after leaving Bacharach and David, often drawing upon their style for other memorable recordings. 

Here, available only as a give-away through public television and now out of print, she is joined by friends such as Johnny Mathis, Luther Vandross, Barry Gibb, Whitney Houston and others, plus a few tracks never before released!

 TRACK LIST: 

1 Dionne Warwick With The Spinners*– Then Came You 3:59 

2 Dionne Warwick– I'll Never Love This Way Again 3:32 

3 Dionne Warwick– Déjà Vu 3:52 

4 Dionne Warwick– No Night So Long 3:27 

5 Dionne Warwick With Johnny Mathis– Friends In Love 4:05 

6 Dionne Warwick– Heartbreaker 4:16 

7 Dionne Warwick With Luther Vandross– How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye 3:27 

8 Dionne Warwick And Friends (Elton John, Gladys Knight & Stevie Wonder)*– That's What Friends Are For 4:16 

9 Dionne Warwick With Jeffrey Osborne– Love Power 4:34 

10 Dionne Warwick With Whitney Houston– Love Will Find A Way 4:57 

11 Dionne Warwick– Sail Away 3:49 

12 Dionne Warwick– The Last One To Be Loved 3:00 

13 Dionne Warwick With Barry Manilow– Never Gonna Let You Get Away 3:51 

14 Dionne Warwick With Barry Gibb– Let It Be Me 3:49 

15 Dionne Warwick With Richard Carpenter– In Love Alone 3:22 

16 Dionne Warwick– You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To 2:59 

17 Dionne Warwick– What Becomes Of Love (From The Television Miniseries "Jacqueline Susann's Valley Of The Dolls") 2:33 

18 Dionne Warwick– On My Way (From The Motion Picture "Isn't She Great") 3:17 

19 Dionne Warwick– Welcome To My World (Live) 1:03 

20 Dionne Warwick– Touch Me In The Morning (Live) 3:39 

21 Dionne Warwick– The Love Boat Theme (From The Television Series "The Love Boat") (Complete Version) 2:55 

Tracks 12-14, 17, 19-21 Previously Unreleased 

Track 16 Previously Unreleased On U.S. CD

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