Dionne Warwick - The Very Best Of Dionne Warwick (2016)

It is easier to define Dionne Warwick by what she isn't rather than what she is. Although she 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, but she is not really a soul singer, either, at least not in the sense that Aretha Franklin is. Sophisticated is a word often used to describe her musical approach and the music she sings, but she is not a singer of standards such as Lena Horne or Nancy Wilson. What is she, then? She is a pop singer of a sort that perhaps could only have emerged out of the Brill Building environment of post-Elvis Presley, pre-Beatles urban pop in the early '60s. That's when she hooked up with Burt Bacharach and Hal David, songwriters and producers who wrote their unusually complicated songs for her aching yet detached alto voice. Warwick is inescapably associated with those songs, even though she managed to build a career after leaving Bacharach and David that drew upon their style for other memorable recordings, and she remains a unique figure in popular music.

Tracklist:

01. Close To You
02. Don't Make Me Over
03. Walk On By
04. Anyone Who Had A Heart
05. Medley: You'll Never Get To Heaven; A House Is Not A Home
06. Medley: I'll Never Fall In Love Again ; Message to Michael : This Girls In Love With You
07. I Say A Little Prayer For You ( Duet with David Elliot )
08. Love Song ( with David Elliott )
09. Alfie
10. Heart Breaker
11. Medley: Corcovado; Waters Of March; Aquarela D
12. Do You Know The Way To San Jose
13. I'll Never Love This Way Again
14. What The World Needs Now
15. That's What Friends Are For