Dionne Warwick
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Live Review by Guy Stevens, Record Mirror, 4 April 1964
ON STAGE WITH THE R&B LEGENDS ...
Report by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 16 May 1964
PETER JONES TAKES A LOOK AT THE SUDDEN INFLUX OF THE BIG HIT GIRLS ...
Dionne Warwick: Going Shopping With Dionne!
Report and Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 30 May 1964
DIONNE WARWICK is tall and willowy — a shapely frame built on the curviest of legs. The dark eyes smoulder. The whiter-than-white teeth flash a ...
Burt Bacharach: "Time Is My Enemy"
Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 4 September 1964
"I JUST DON'T get enough time to cram everything in," top U.S. songwriter, arranger and producer Burt Bacharach told me, during a two-day visit last ...
The Supremes, the Righteous Brothers, the Beau Brummels et al: Cow Palace, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Mike Gormley, The Ottawa Journal, 27 February 1965
Righteous Sound Shakes 'Frisco ...
Dionne Has A Smash With 'Message' Song
Profile by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 23 April 1966
A LITTLE OVER two years ago the name Dionne Warwick was virtually unknown to the public. Then she recorded 'Don't Make Me Over' and everything ...
Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 2 July 1966
FESTIVAL IN PARK OPENS BRIGHTLY Overflow Audience at Rink Hears Dionne Warwick ...
Dionne Warwick And How They Discovered Her
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 3 September 1966
GIRL SINGER AT THE TOP ...
RSG RIP: Another pop show bites the dust!
Report by Vicki Wickham, uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 19 November 1966
Ready, Steady Go! Editor Vicki Wickham reviews highlights of the TV aeries that ends on December 23 ...
Loraine Alterman on Records: The Fascinating Sounds Of a Group Called Love
Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 29 January 1967
THE TREMENDOUSLY talented West Coast group called Love still hasn't made it into the bright spotlight of fame like the Beach Boys or the Lovin' ...
Loraine Alterman on Records: New Albums from Vanilla Fudge, Big Brother et al
Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 3 September 1967
Vanilla Fudge: Exciting Album ...
Dionne Warwick: Learning To Take Her Time
Interview by Eden, KRLA Beat, 2 December 1967
DIONNE WARWICK has been acclaimed by fans and critics the world over as one of the greatest and most distinctive song stylists in the music ...
Dionne Warwick: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 18 April 1970
DIONNE DAZZLES ...
Dionne Warwick — The Ability to Communicate an Emotion
Profile and Interview by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 25 April 1970
DIONNE WARWICK'S beautiful performance in concert at London's Royal Albert Hall last week was a demonstration of how a rare talent overcomes any sort of ...
Dionne Warwick: The Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Dave Godin, Blues & Soul, 8 May 1970
THE "PRINCE Albert Hall" (as Dionne so charmingly referred to it) is the most peculiar venue in London for a recording artist to play. ...
Dionne Warwicke: Is She The Same Girl?
Comment by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 27 August 1971
THE RELEASE of four Dionne Warwicke albums by Decca – Soulful, Motion Picture Hits, Promises Promises and Very Dionne has sparked off some renewed interest ...
Dionne Warwick: "...The Holy Ghost, Of Course."
Overview by Nick Tosches, Fusion, 7 January 1972
ONCE THERE was a little pickaninny girl from East Orange, N.J. She used to play organ and sing in the choir at the church of ...
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 29 January 1972
SHE USED to be Dionne Warwick, and before that Dionne Warrick. The extra letter is important. The rules of numerology dictate it. Just as it ...
Dionne Warwicke: elegance, simplicity and Maplewood, N.J.
Profile and Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 20 February 1972
THE COFFEE table is marble and kidney shaped with little gilt legs. The bar is a wooden cylinder with a vase of pink feather flowers ...
Dionne Warwicke, Curtis Mayfield: Circle Star, San Carlos CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 22 March 1972
Dionne Warwicke Sings to the Rescue ...
Dionne Warwicke: Just Being Herself
Report and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 7 December 1973
THAT CERTAIN entertainers decline or prefer not to give interviews is an incomprehensible fact that frequently puzzles both journalists and the public. ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 22 February 1975
ONLY ONE OBJECTION to this album, so let's put it right up front. ...
Dionne Warwicke: I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself...
Retrospective by Tony Cummings, Black Music, March 1975
Dionne Warwicke is one of the great voices of black music. Back in the 60s she and maestro Burt Bacharach pioneered the sophisticated soul sounds ...
Dionne Warwicke: Right Back On Top
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 4 March 1975
ASIDE FROM 'Then Came You', her million-selling, Thom Bell-produced duo with The Detroit Spinners which catapulted to the higher echelons of the pop & soul ...
Worries of the Warwick sisters
Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 12 July 1975
WE'RE A LONG way on from 1964 and 'Walk On By' but, despite the profusion of instantly forgetable records Dionne Warwick has turned out since ...
Dionne Warwick and Thom Bell: Hitting The Road Together
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 23 December 1975
WITHOUT ANY question, one of the most significant musical marriages of our decade was the one that brought the team of Dionne Warwick, Burt Bacharach ...
Report and Interview by Kevin Allen, Record Mirror, 10 January 1976
SINCE IT was the arranging/production and inspiration of Thom Bell which took Dionne Warwick (no final "e" these days) back into the charts after a ...
California Soul Hits The Big Apple
Live Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 6 April 1976
A special report by David Nathan on the on-stage and behind-the-scenes activities at Warner Brothers' special "California Soul" series of concerts during end of February ...
Dionne Warwick is never less than perfect... always incapable of awkwardness
Profile by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 15 January 1977
MANY'S THE time that contemporary pop record producers have been compared, in function and power, to film directors. There are, of course, many different kinds ...
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, June 1979
David Nathan provides a penetrating and objective insight into the evergreen Dionne Warwick – an artiste of undisputed pedigree and longevity... ...
Singles Reviewed by MARK COOPER
Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 22 January 1983
THE GAP BAND 'Outstanding' (Polygram) Yet another soul concerto from The Gap Band with a monstrously hard-hitting handclap from the engine room and a vocal ...
Dionne Warwick: How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye (Arista)
Review by James Hunter, The Village Voice, 3 January 1984
Dionne's Hot Date ...
Déjà Vu: The Unstoppable Dionne Warwick
Retrospective and Interview by Kirk Silsbee, Arroyo Monthly, June 2010
You could be a good singer from now 'til hell and back and if you haven't got material, you're just standing there with your mouth ...
Interview by Larry LeBlanc, Celebrity Access, 26 July 2011
HAL DAVID'S NAME should be a lyric. This prolific American lyricist who turned 90 on May 25, 2011, is chairman emeritus of the Songwriters Hall ...
Dionne Warwick: SSE Arena, Wembley
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 5 October 2015
AFTER A half-century rollercoaster ride through the music industry, from multiple Grammy-winning stardom to her recent tax troubles and bankruptcy, Dionne Warwick can still command ...
Dionne Warwick: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 20 September 2018
The singer still oozes stage presence, but age has reduced her range to such an extent that many of her songs are sketches of their ...
Dionne Warwick: Birmingham Symphony Hall
Live Review by David Burke, Classic Pop, November 2018
THE VOICE MAY have withered with age – the range not so extensive, the lung capacity not so voluminous – but Dionne Warwick remains a ...
see also Burt Bacharach
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