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List Price: $8.99 | | Label: Arista
Salesrank: 6560
Released: April 13, 1999 |
| Our Price: $5.79 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Definitive Collection Track Listing:
1. Anyone Who Had a Heart
2. Don't Make Me Over
3. Walk on By
4. Message to Michael
5. Alfie
6. I Say a Little Prayer
7. Windows of the World
8. Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
9. I'll Never Fall in Love Again
10. Then Came You - The Spinners, Dionne Warwick
11. I'll Never Love This Way Again
12. Déjà Vu
13. After You
14. No Night So Long
15. Heartbreaker
16. How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye - Luther Vandross, Dionne Warwick
17. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
18. Love Power - Jeffrey Osborne, Dionne Warwick
19. Reservations for Two - Kashif, Dionne Warwick
20. That's What Friends Are For - Elton John, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder
Editorial Review:
European only Gold Disc packaged in an exclusive slipcase. The Definitive Collection is just that, a 20-track retrospective of the New Jersey songstress' entire career. Extensive liner notes trace her career from roots in gospel to session work as a background singer, on through her association with Burt Bacharach and many later collaborations with some of the biggest names in music. The first nine tracks are all classic '60s tunes written by Bacharach and Hal David. The songwriting team presented Warwick with such chestnuts as 'Walk On By', 'Alfie', and 'I Say A Little Prayer', and she croons them perfectly. 'Then Came You', Warwick's duet with The Spinners, shows how she changed soulfully with the times. In an age when every female R&B artist is being marketed as a Diva, the 25 years of music on this album prove that Warwick has indisputably earned her title. Arista. 2005.
Description of Definitive Collection:
This 20-track career overview's problems are summed up by the differences between two songs. "I'll Never Fall in Love Again," released in 1969, came near the end of Warwick's classic collaborative period with Burt Bacharach and Hal David; contrast its witty approach to heartbreak ("What do you get when you kiss a guy? / You get enough germs to catch pneumonia / And after you do, he'll never phone ya") with "I'll Never Love This Way Again," the single that launched her chart comeback a decade later. That track encapsulates everything wrong with late-'70s easy listening, right down to the turgid Barry Manilow production. Saddest, though, is Warwick's capitulation to empty displays of technique over the perfectly sung vulnerability she specialized in with Bacharach and David. Skip this set in favor of The Dionne Warwick Collection, 24 masterpieces from the earlier period that will rarely be far from your CD player. As for Warwick's terrific 1974 meeting with the Spinners on "Then Came You," you'd do better to check out a greatest-hits set by those smooth-soul champs. --Rickey Wright
Definitive Collection Reviews:
The real Diva "Dionne Warwick"! 
2009-06-10 - This is one of the best if not the best albums Dionne released. I love her interpretation of "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow", it brought tears to my eyes. All the standards that she sung accompanied by Burt Bacharach are just the joint! A very memorable album and the best of Dionne!
Poorly mastered... 
2008-05-14 - The problem with this CD is that whoever did the mastering didn't know how to insert track-markings. If you are scanning through the disc, you might think that the introductions of many songs have been cut off. What has happened is that [...] Arista placed most of the track markings AFTER songs have started (You have to back-up and listen to the end of a previous track in order to hear the beginning of the next one).
Naturally, if you play the CD from start to finish, you'll never notice this problem.
This is really sad because the quality of the sound is very good, and the CD is probably the best representation of Warwick's work. But I wouldn't recommend this disc because of the technical flaw.
Nice walk down memory lane. 
2007-08-23 - I purchased this CD because I loved D. Warwick growning up. I liked the songs on the CD and it brought back pleasant memories. A good sing along type grouping.
Classic Dionne Warwick
2006-11-05 - I purchased this CD for a "picture to DVD" project and
had forgotten how many great hits Dionne Warwick has.
This CD has the best of her collection. You will know
every song and they all are awesome!
The velvet and expressive voice!
2006-01-07 - Mrs Warwick is a living legend. Her presence in the musical stages was never more expected, because somehow she filled a visible void in this wide sector of the market.
She represented the kind, expressive, romantic and charm voice inside the varied universe of musical genres. The white voices were literally complete; there were quite a lot number of options: Petula Clark, Brenda Lee, Peggy Lee, Tammy Wynette, Connie Francis, Bobbie Gentry, Dusty Springfield, but the Black voices lacked of someone like her. Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin filled the soul spirit, but hardly you would be able to watch just a spectacle under moonlight with such music.
The best evidence in this sense was the fact composer of the artistic level Burt Bacharach composed a part of his unforgettable creations for her. Do you know the way to San Jose? or This guy 's in love with you are irrefutable testimonies that seem to valid this statement
Go for this album that will reward you over and over again.
