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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Rhino / Wea
Salesrank: 18502
Released: October 26, 1989 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits Track Listing:
1. Don't Make Me Over
2. This Empty Place
3. Anyone Who Had a Heart
4. Walk on By
5. You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)
6. House Is Not a Home
7. Reach out for Me
8. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
9. Looking With My Eyes
10. Are You There (With Another Girl)
11. Message to Michael
12. Trains and Boats and Planes
13. I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
14. Another Night
15. Alfie
16. Windows of the World
17. I Say a Little Prayer
18. Theme from Valley of the Dolls
19. Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
20. (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me
21. Promises, Promises
22. April Fools
23. I'll Never Fall in Love Again
24. Green Grass Starts to Grow
Editorial Review:
Dionne Warwick's vocals were never more strong, more vulnerable than when she sang the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David--and, oh, yeah, "Who Can I Turn To" and the theme from "Valley of the Dolls," the two non-Bacharach/David songs included among the 24 singles collected here. Both technically and emotionally, this was an unstoppable team: from the drama of "Don't Make Me Over" to the tongue-in-cheek backing singers on "Are You There (With Another Girl)," the barely veiled civil-rights message of "Reach Out for Me" to the deceptively bouncy "Do You Know the Way to San Jose," this CD sheds light on one of the most perfect marriages of pop form and content this side of Sinatra's classic Capitol work. --Rickey Wright
The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits Reviews:
I'll be brief (for once) 
2009-12-08 - This is simply delightful! Practically every track is a polished little pop gem, beautifully sung, well-produced and well-engineered. Light R&B, yes, but the singer projects abundant grace and charm, with drama kept to a minimum. And you just don't realize how many hits Dionne really had in the 60's until you hear them all like this, one after another. If you are a fan of her 60's work, and especially if you remember AM radio, this collection will be to your liking.
Music that wafted down from Heaven 
2009-12-03 - Since Dionne Warwick found it necessary to consult psychics later in her career, how I wish she had done it much earlier! Perhaps one of those fortune tellers -- if they had been worth their money -- would have told her to NEVER leave the tunesmith team of Bacharach & David!! With their compositions and her voice, the last great chapter of the American Popular Songbook was written. The sophistication, expression, and downright aching that many of these songs exude is undeniable. 'Anyone Who Had a Heart,' for example, drips with such poignancy that it'll stop you dead in your tracks. And that goes for most tunes on this cd. Thank God that Warwick, Bacharach, and David got together to create such wonderful, sublime music!
The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits
2009-11-16 - OUTSTANDING! Dionne at her best. All the songs
that made her one of the greatest.
EXCELLENT!!!
2009-10-20 - I LOVE Dionne Warwick----Burt Bacharach couldn't have produced and cultivated any better VOCAL TALENT!!!
this cd is PERFECT for me b/c it has ALL of the songs that I love by her! I love MANY of her songs, but there were specific ones that I was looking for and they were on there!!!! and even a few that I didn't know were on there! I picked the right one!
Creme de la Creme of Warwick's Best Work and Period
2009-08-05 - I recently dug this CD out of a box and listened to all the songs after a very long absence. "WOW" is all I have to say, it still leaves me breathless marveling at the work Burt Bacharach, Hal David and of course Dionne Warwick did during their classic decade -- the 1960's. Dionne's voice was a thing of wonder, adding just enough edge to the light-as-air lyrics and arrangements. She seemed not the least bit bothered by the challenging music notes Bacharach stuffed into his songs. The endless leaps and jumps these songs require of a singer could make a singer look like an idiot if she wasn't equipped with the vocal pipes. "I Say A Little Prayer" is a perfect example. Just listen to the tricky music notes Dionne has to leap through during the course of the entire song. I'm not sure if these same songs were sung by anyone else that they would turn out to be the Classics they are today.
Bacharach and David were smart to stick with Dionne and gave her songs that were spun into pure gold. Even after a very long absence, these songs still sound fresh and hummable. That is a true sign of great songwriting. Contrary to what some folks have commented here, I think these songs hold up VERY WELL. Here it is well over 40 years later and you still hear these songs played on most Adult Contemporary radio stations. But it is Dionne's superb mastery of Bacharach-David's songs that make these songs work. She has actually remade these same songs for other record labels since the 1960's, but they don't have the same effect. For one thing, her voice has become heavily tarnished after the 1970's due to heavy smoking (time to quit those cigarettes, Dionne!) Luckily for all of the pop fans, these songs were made during a time when the perfect combination of songwriting, producing, and singing came together. All I can say is "Thanks" for the great music ! These songs will stand the test of time for generations.
