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If there were better American pop singers in the '60s than Dionne Warwick, there certainly weren't very many of them. Warwick was blessed with a splendid voice as well as the knowledge of what to do with its nuances; there were lots of great singers who were more demonstrative, but the understated warmth Warwick brought to her performances made her hits uniquely effective. And her work with songwriters and producers Burt Bacharach and Hal David was one of the most inspired teamings of the era; they gave her smart, beautifully crafted material, and she delivered it with heart, soul, and style. From 1962 to 1971, Warwick recorded for the scrappy independent label Scepter Records, and her hits for the label have been repackaged multiple times; Odds & Ends: Scepter Records Rarities goes another route, bringing together 25 rare and unusual tracks cut during her tenure with the label, ten of which see commercial release here for the first time. Most of the previously unheard material here consists of alternate versions of songs Warwick recorded for Scepter, while nine find her delivering phonetically translated versions of some of her better-known tunes in French, Italian, or German. Warwick's performances are uniformly skillful throughout, as one might expect, but the non-English tracks suffer from the fact that Warwick literally doesn't know exactly what she's singing and the performances consequently lack her usual engaging feel. And though Warwick is a superb song stylist, some of the tunes she tackles here -- particularly "Monday, Monday," "If You Let Me Make Love to You, Then Why Can't I Touch You?," and "Our Ages or Our Hearts" -- just don't mesh with her style as well as the Bacharach/David classics that made her reputation. Hardcore Dionne Warwick fans will doubtless enjoy Odds & Ends: Scepter Records Rarities, and it does confirm just how far her talents could stretch, but casual listeners are still best off with the outstanding Rhino anthology The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits, a definitive overview of the cream of the Scepter years.
© Mark Deming /TiVo
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Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Producer, Writer - Hal David, Producer, Writer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1967 Rhino Entertainment Company
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Producer - Hal David, Producer - John Phillips, Composer, Lyricist
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 2001 Warner Special Products
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Composer, Producer - Hal David, Composer, Producer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1967 Rhino Entertainment Company
Bryan Wells, Composer - Ruth Batchelor, Composer - Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Producer - Hal David, Producer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1971 Rhino Entertainment Company
Mark Lindsay, Composer - Artie Butler, Composer - Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Producer - Hal David, Producer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1971 Rhino Entertainment Company
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Producer, Writer - Hal David, Producer, Writer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1964 Rhino Entertainment Company
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Composer, Producer - Hal David, Composer, Producer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1962 Rhino Entertainment Company
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Composer, Producer - Hal David, Composer, Producer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1964 Rhino Entertainment Company
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Producer - Hal David, Producer - Jack Reardon, Composer - Jean Broussolle, Composer - SACHA DISTEL, Composer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1966 Rhino Entertainment Company
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Composer, Producer - Hal David, Composer, Producer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1970 Rhino Entertainment Company
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Composer, Producer - Hal David, Composer, Producer - Franco Califano, Composer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1967 Rhino Entertainment Company
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Producer - Hal David, Producer - Peter Link, Writer - Charles Courtney, Writer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 2001 Warner Special Products
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Producer - Hal David, Producer - Edith Piaf, Composer - Louiguy-Mack David, Composer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1966 Rhino Entertainment Company
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Composer, Producer - Hal David, Composer, Producer - Lüth, Composer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1964 Rhino Entertainment Company
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Composer, Producer - Hal David, Composer, Producer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1968 Rhino Entertainment Company
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Producer - Hal David, Producer - Robert Ayers, Composer - Danny Hathaway, Composer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1972 Rhino Entertainment Company
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Composer, Producer - Hal David, Composer, Producer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1965 Rhino Entertainment Company
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Producer - Hal David, Producer - Cole Porter, Composer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1966 Rhino Entertainment Company
Norman Monath, Composer - Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Producer - Hal David, Producer - Mogol, Composer - Elio Isola, Composer - Paolo Lamiti, Composer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1968 Rhino Entertainment Company
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Composer, Producer - Hal David, Composer, Producer - Franco Califano, Composer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1967 Rhino Entertainment Company
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Producer - Hal David, Producer - Andre Hornez, Composer - HENRI BETTI, Composer - Jerry Seelen, Composer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1966 Rhino Entertainment Company
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Composer, Producer - Hal David, Composer, Producer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1969 Rhino Entertainment Company
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Producer, Writer - Hal David, Producer, Writer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1967 Rhino Entertainment Company
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Composer, Producer - Hal David, Composer, Producer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1968 Rhino Entertainment Company
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, Producer - Hal David, Producer
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 1967 Rhino Entertainment Company
Album review
If there were better American pop singers in the '60s than Dionne Warwick, there certainly weren't very many of them. Warwick was blessed with a splendid voice as well as the knowledge of what to do with its nuances; there were lots of great singers who were more demonstrative, but the understated warmth Warwick brought to her performances made her hits uniquely effective. And her work with songwriters and producers Burt Bacharach and Hal David was one of the most inspired teamings of the era; they gave her smart, beautifully crafted material, and she delivered it with heart, soul, and style. From 1962 to 1971, Warwick recorded for the scrappy independent label Scepter Records, and her hits for the label have been repackaged multiple times; Odds & Ends: Scepter Records Rarities goes another route, bringing together 25 rare and unusual tracks cut during her tenure with the label, ten of which see commercial release here for the first time. Most of the previously unheard material here consists of alternate versions of songs Warwick recorded for Scepter, while nine find her delivering phonetically translated versions of some of her better-known tunes in French, Italian, or German. Warwick's performances are uniformly skillful throughout, as one might expect, but the non-English tracks suffer from the fact that Warwick literally doesn't know exactly what she's singing and the performances consequently lack her usual engaging feel. And though Warwick is a superb song stylist, some of the tunes she tackles here -- particularly "Monday, Monday," "If You Let Me Make Love to You, Then Why Can't I Touch You?," and "Our Ages or Our Hearts" -- just don't mesh with her style as well as the Bacharach/David classics that made her reputation. Hardcore Dionne Warwick fans will doubtless enjoy Odds & Ends: Scepter Records Rarities, and it does confirm just how far her talents could stretch, but casual listeners are still best off with the outstanding Rhino anthology The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits, a definitive overview of the cream of the Scepter years.
© Mark Deming /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 26 track(s)
- Total length: 01:18:56
- Main artists: Dionne Warwick
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Rhino
- Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B Soul
© 2018 Real Gone Music, L.L.C. ℗ 2018 Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company
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