Deep Album Cuts Vol. 233: Dionne Warwick





Dionne Warwick is one of the 2021 nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, alongside Jay-ZFoo FightersTina TurnerDevo, Carole King, Kate BushIron MaidenMary J. BligeLL Cool JTodd RundgrenThe Go-Go'sRage Against The MachineNew York Dolls, Chaka Khan, and Fela Kuti.  Of all those artists, Warwick has been eligible the longest (only Turner and King have been recording for longer, but released their first solo albums after Warwick), and this is her first time being nominated. One wonders if her emergence in the past year as an entertaining presence on Twitter contributed to this belated recognition, but it any event it's deserved and overdue. 

Dionne Warwick deep album cuts (Spotify playlist):

1. I Cry Alone
2. Any Old Time Of Day
3. Land Of Make Believe
4. How Many Days Of Sadness
5. In Between The Heartaches
6. Here Where There is Love
7. Walk Little Dolly
8. Let Me Be Lonely
9. Wanting Things
10. Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
11. Check Out Time
12. My First Night Alone Without You
13. You're Gonna Need Me
14. I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face
15. This Is Love
16. Early Morning Strangers
17. Who, What, When, Where, Why
18. We Never Said Goodbye
19. What Is This
20. You Are My Love
21. I Can Let Go Now
22. Without Your Love
23. Moments Aren't Moments

Track 1 from Presenting Dionne Warwick (1963)
Track 2 from Anyone Who Had A Heart (1964)
Track 3 from Make Way For Dionne Warwick (1964)
Track 4 from The Sensitive Sound of Dionne Warwick (1965)
Track 5 from Here I Am (1965)
Track 6 from Here Where There Is Love (1966)
Track 7 from The Windows Of The World (1967)
Track 8 from Dionne Warwick in Valley Of The Dolls 1968)
Track 9 from Promises, Promises (1968)
Track 10 from I'll Never Fall In Love Again (1970)
Track 11 from Very Dionne (1970)
Track 12 from Dionne (1972)
Track 13 from Just Being Myself (1973)
Track 14 from Then Came You (1975)
Track 15 from Track Of The Cat (1975)
Track 16 from Love At First Sight (1977)
Track 17 from Dionne (1979)
Track 18 from No Night So Long (1980)
Track 19 from Friends In Love (1982)
Track 20 from Heartbreaker (1982)
Track 21 from How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye (1983)
Track 22 from Finder Of Lost Loves (1985)
Track 23 from Friends (1985)

It's appropriate that Dionne Warwick could get in the same year as Carole King, since they're both products of the Brill Building era, with King's contemporaries Burt Bacharach and Hal David writing, producing, and arranging most of Warwick's music during the wildly successful first decade of her career. But as I dug into Warwick's catalog, I was pleasantly surprised by just how many dozens of songs Bacharach and David wrote for Warwick, many of which were never released as singles by her or anyone else. I was a teenager who worshiped Elvis Costello when he started teaming up with Burt Bacharach and championing Bacharach's '60s pop classics, which felt very far removed from even the '60s classic rock that I liked, but now I can credit Painted From Memory as the gateway for helping me appreciate how fantastic Warwick's music back then was, and how perfect a vessel her amazingly rich voice was for Bacharach and David's songs. 

All of the first 12 tracks on this playlist were written by Bacharach and David, and feature some breathtakingly brilliant songs like "Check Out Time" and "Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets" that I would rate up there with their best hits. In 1989, Rhino Records released The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits, and followed it up with 1992's Hidden Gems: The Best of Dionne Warwick, Vol. 2. And that compilation spotlighted some of the same excellent album tracks I picked here, including "I Cry Alone," "Any Old Time Of Day," "Land Of Make Believe," "How Many Days Of Sadness," and "Let Me Be Lonely." 

Dionne Warwick started branching out and working with a wider variety of writers and producers in the '70s, and her career fortunes were up and down from there. But her period apart from Burt Bacharach started off with a bang with the first song on 1973's Just Being Myself, which was written and produced by Motown's famed Holland-Dozier-Holland team. "You're Gonna Need Me" wasn't a single, but it's an absolutely enormous jam that was later sampled on Usher's "Throwback," J Dilla's "Stop," and State Property's "Want Me Back." And DJ Premier sampled "My First Night Without You" for The LOX's "Recognize." 
 
When Warwick wasn't periodically reuniting with Bacharach, she had a pretty strong lineup of writers and producers on her albums, including Stevie Wonder ("Moments Aren't Moments"), Barry Manilow ("Early Morning Strangers"), Barry Gibb ("You Are My Love"), Michael McDonald ("I Can Let Go Now"), Mutt Lange ("Without Your Love"), and Thom Bell ("This Is Love"). A decade after Isaac Hayes dramatically reinvented one of Dionne Warwick's signature songs, "Walk On By," Hayes wrote songs for Warwick including "We Never Said Goodbye" and the hit "Deja Vu." 
 
Previous playlists in the Deep Album Cuts series:
Vol. 1: Brandy
Vol. 2: Whitney Houston
Vol. 3: Madonna
Vol. 4: My Chemical Romance
Vol. 5: Brad Paisley
Vol. 6: George Jones
Vol. 7: The Doors
Vol. 8: Jay-Z
Vol. 9: Robin Thicke
Vol. 10: R. Kelly
Vol. 11: Fall Out Boy
Vol. 12: TLC
Vol. 13: Pink
Vol. 14: Queen
Vol. 15: Steely Dan
Vol. 16: Trick Daddy
Vol. 17: Paramore
Vol. 18: Elton John
Vol. 19: Missy Elliott
Vol. 20: Mariah Carey
Vol. 21: The Pretenders
Vol. 22: "Weird Al" Yankovic
Vol. 23: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Vol. 24: Foo Fighters
Vol. 25: Counting Crows
Vol. 26: T.I.
Vol. 27: Jackson Browne
Vol. 28: Usher
Vol. 29: Mary J. Blige
Vol. 30: The Black Crowes
Vol. 31: Ne-Yo
Vol. 32: Blink-182
Vol. 33: One Direction
Vol. 34: Kelly Clarkson
Vol. 35: The B-52's
Vol. 36: Ludacris
Vol. 37: They Might Be Giants
Vol. 38: T-Pain
Vol. 39: Snoop Dogg
Vol. 40: Ciara
Vol. 41: Creedence Clearwater Revival
Vol. 42: Dwight Yoakam
Vol. 43: Demi Lovato
Vol. 44: Prince
Vol. 45: Duran Duran
Vol. 46: Rihanna
Vol. 47: Janet Jackson
Vol. 48: Sara Bareilles
Vol. 49: Motley Crue
Vol. 50: The Who
Vol. 51: Coldplay
Vol. 52: Alicia Keys
Vol. 53: Stone Temple Pilots
Vol. 54: David Bowie
Vol. 55: The Eagles
Vol. 56: The Beatles
Vol. 57: Beyonce
Vol. 58: Beanie Sigel
Vol. 59: A Tribe Called Quest
Vol. 60: Cheap Trick
Vol. 61: Guns N' Roses
Vol. 62: The Posies
Vol. 63: The Time
Vol. 64: Gucci Mane
Vol. 65: Violent Femmes
Vol. 66: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Vol. 67: Maxwell
Vol. 68: Parliament-Funkadelic
Vol. 69: Chevelle
Vol. 70: Ray Parker Jr. and Raydio
Vol. 71: Fantasia
Vol. 72: Heart
Vol. 73: Pitbull
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Vol. 88: Electric Light Orchestra
Vol. 89: Chic
Vol. 90: Journey
Vol. 91: Yes
Vol. 92: Soundgarden
Vol. 93: The Allman Brothers Band
Vol. 94: Mobb Deep
Vol. 95: Linkin Park
Vol. 96: Shania Twain
Vol. 97: Squeeze
Vol. 98: Taylor Swift
Vol. 99: INXS
Vol. 100: Stevie Wonder
Vol. 101: The Cranberries
Vol. 102: Def Leppard
Vol. 103: Bon Jovi
Vol. 104: Dire Straits
Vol. 105: The Police
Vol. 106: Sloan
Vol. 107: Peter Gabriel
Vol. 108: Led Zeppelin
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Vol. 114: Aretha Franklin
Vol. 115: Michael Jackson
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Vol. 118: Lil Wayne
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Vol. 120: Kix
Vol. 121: Phil Collins
Vol. 122: Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Vol. 123: Sonic Youth
Vol. 124: Bob Seger
Vol. 125: Radiohead
Vol. 126: Eric Church
Vol. 127: Neil Young
Vol. 128: Future
Vol. 129: Say Anything
Vol. 130: Maroon 5
Vol. 131: Kiss
Vol. 132: Dinosaur Jr.
Vol. 133: Stevie Nicks
Vol. 134: Talk Talk
Vol. 135: Ariana Grande
Vol. 136: Roxy Music
Vol. 137: The Cure
Vol. 138: 2 Chainz
Vol. 139: Kelis
Vol. 140: Ben Folds Five
Vol. 141: DJ Khaled
Vol. 142: Little Feat
Vol. 143: Brendan Benson
Vol. 144: Chance The Rapper
Vol. 145: Miguel
Vol. 146: The Geto Boys
Vol. 147: Meek Mill
Vol. 148: Tool
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Vol. 181: The Replacements
Vol. 227: Tina Turner
Vol. 228: Ike & Tina Turner
Vol. 229: Iron Maiden
Vol. 230: Devo
Vol. 231: Carole King
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