The Very Best of Dionne Warwick

Gotta be "Anyone Who Had A Heart". Got me through a collapsed lung IIRC.

Not in the Rock Hall and never been nominated either. My guess is her late 70's/80's Adult Contemporary stuff has hurt her with the nominating committee. But, as someone posted above, yes she should be in. Oh, and Burt Bacharach isn't in there as a songwriter either.

"You There (With Another Girl) (And Me Watching) (And Eventually Joining If That's Cool)"

"Walk On By" but yeah, I could vote for any of them. I think of other singers on some of these more than Dionne, though, e.g. Cilla Black on "Alfie", & Aretha on "I Say A Little Prayer". But Warwick inhabits "Walk On By" with her immensely tense coo on the chorus, dignified tears with sisters to back her up, "don't stop".

Neil Tennant admitted in a recent podcast that Cilla Black's "Alfie" is his favorite song.

yeah I love her diction on "without true love we just exist"; she gives an absurd line enough, er, properness (is that a word? I want to say propiety but that's not a word) that I buy it.

A number of great choices....Ok narrowed it down to the first 4...flips coin...Ok "Walk on By"

My desert island Dionne has long been Rhino's Anthology (1962-1969) which includes "This Empty Place" (aka "Sprint [And Then Honky-Tonky] On By"), "You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)," "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself," "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me," "The April Fools," and my favorite "A House is Not a Home." Nothing in all of jazz has made me suck in gales of air and sent tingles throughout my body as much as the second-to-last sax note in "A House is Not a Home." Give or take a choice slice of DeBarge or Chic, it's my all-time favorite music moment. Absent that, I'm going with "Yo! You There (With Another Girl)?"

And I mean desert island. Nothing evokes the sturm und drang of suburbia for gay boys better than Dionne. She makes shag carpeting and oil rain lamps feel like a Maria Montez Dance of Death. On a strictly greatest hits level, I prefer her to Dusty, Aretha, even The Shirelles (barely).

Although Aretha's "The April Fools" > Dionne's (but not by much!)

But Dionne's "Alfie" >> Cilla Black's (too Broadway)

That Rhino set is ace. I've got the other version alluded to in that review. And both miss some later obscure gems like "Odds & Ends", "Paper Mache" and "Check-Out Time", which are on Rhino's great Bacharach box.

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You know, I said this upthread, but as much as I want to love this poll it doesn't include "Heartbreaker."

I think we have another meaning-of-Rod-Stewart argument on our hands there.

This might be one of the hardest polls on ILM! Probably Anyone Who Had a Heart but only because A House Is Not A Home isn't on here. But easily could've choosen others different years ago. I discovered her in junior high and that was the moment I discovered Pop music.

Wishing I had Dionne records to play right now!

No "Take It from Me" no credibility

Hi everybody I would literally saw off my own head for Dionne Warwick

(but I'm exhausted right now and probably can't go into anything particularly worth reading about why she's so quietly iconic, how completely her work hits that axis where craft and feeling collide in the listener and find full expression there i.e. how she is perfect at pop music. I voted "Then Came You" for personal reasons; "I never knew love before. Then came you" devastates me every time I hear it. I think Dionne's as good as Diana Ross, which for me is like saying "she's as good as it gets.")

god, i fucking adore "move me no mountain" and "we'll burn our bridges behind us" but early 70s dionne is heavily underrepresented here so i guess i'll vote "then came you" by default

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Hard to beat "Walk On By" in any poll, but the non-Romneys--I mean the non-"Walk On By"s--got exactly twice as many votes. I voted for "I'll Never Fall in Love Again."

I think the HOF should wait on Bacharach and Warwick. Leave the magic alone!!

“Legendary singer Dionne Warwick was in Cannes this morning to unveil a new biopic about her life,” reports Deadline‘s Nancy Tartaglione. “Dionne will star Grammy-winner LeToya Luckett (Destiny’s Child) as Warwick; Danny Glover as her father; Olympia Dukakis as Marlene Dietrich; and Lady Gaga as Cilla Black who Warwick today called her ‘nemesis.’ Mario Van Peebles is in talks to direct with shooting to begin in October.”

Update from Ramin Setoodeh in Variety: “‘Lady Gaga is not attached and will not appear in the project,’ her publicist said. ‘Reports of Gaga starring in the project are false.'”

my vow to avoid biopics at all cost remains firmly in place

howboutz Streep as Flo Foster Jenkins?

A catalog of exquisite clarity. She's like an Ozu film in human form.

She is the only person in this world that would leave me star-struck

lover power, say

beyond reproach

Was that the title of a Bacharach/Costello collabo that was written for her?

Don’t you think I would have warned you all about iTunes making you have that U2 album if I were actually psychic?

— Dionne Warwick (@_DionneWarwick) November 19, 2020

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Contemplating a name change to Dionne the Singer, obviously.

Dionne the Singere!

That's What Chance Is Fore

There's a documentary (assume it's a documentary) playing at TIFF this fall: Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over.

I assume that's the one that played on CNN tonight...PVR'd it to watch later. May be partly intended as a push to finally get her into the Rock and Roll HOF.

I discovered this non-album single early last week and am enchanted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgf8KYiidPo

"Message to Michael" is a little awkward to be anybody's favourite, but it's the best of the zero votes here.

"The Rock and Rock Hall of Fame"--just one member, Kid Rock.

You forgot it also includes his brother, Bob Rock.

"Message to Michael"... the best of the zero votes here.

I'd say "Windows of the World," because pizzicato raindrops.

thats a great song alfred

I thought it a Dylan-Band cover!

Lol

Missed the CNN special on her . Saw someone raving about it on Facebook