Dionne Warwick - Love Songs - Opera / Vocal - CD

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The job of the catalog divisions of major record labels is to re-sell music from the companies' catalogs, and when it comes to a vintage artist like Dionne Warwick, record executives wrack their brains to come up with ways to go beyond the basic hits compilations and exploit the many other tracks such a singer cut during her career. One increasingly popular concept is the "Love Songs" album, its release timed to occur around Valentine's Day. Of course, most of Warwick's recordings are love songs of one sort or another, anyway, but the idea usually is to come up with a disc that will accompany the holiday's happy romantic moments. Rhino Records' Warwick Love Songs album, drawn from her Scepter and Warner Bros. Records catalogs of 1964-1976, which arrived more than a month after Valentine's Day 2001, is really a canard. It contains as many love songs as any random selection of 16 Warwick tracks would, which is to say that most of the songs are love songs, although some are not and some are unhappy love songs that aren't appropriate to Valentine's Day ("One Less Bell to Answer," "Jealousy"). But the real title of this album should be something like "A Bunch of Rare and Obscure Dionne Warwick Records, Bated with a Couple of Hits." The hits, of course, come right up front: "You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)" (another sentiment not exactly in keeping with the holiday) and "I Say a Little Prayer." For the rest, British soul music expert David Nathan has dug into the Warwick Scepter and Warner catalogs for a collection of LP tracks, B-side singles, and other obscurities, sifting for gems. Certainly, he's found a few. Among the forgotten Bacharach and David compositions that make up Tracks three-nine is "Here Where There Is Love," which easily could have been one of Warwick's hit singles of the '60s, as well as characteristic if minor efforts such as "Whoever You Are, I Love You." Warwick's version of Lesley Duncan's "Love Song" (a tune best known for its inclusion on Elton John's Tumbleweed Connection album) is excellent, and her 1972 re-recording of "Close to You," made after the song became a hit for the Carpenters, is good, too. Still, this is really an album for Warwick completists who will welcome the arrival on CD of "Dream Sweet Dreamer," previously available only as the B-side of the 1969 single "This Girl's in Love with You," and "I Didn't Mean to Love You," Warwick's last R&B chart entry on Warner, which Nathan notes was "withdrawn a few weeks after its original late 1976 release." ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Performer	Dionne Warwick
Music genre	Opera / Vocal
Media format	CD
Original release date	2001
Edition	Dione warwick
Language	English
Number of tracks	10
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Track listing	You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart), I Say a Little Prayer, Forever My Love, Here Where There Is Love, For the Rest of My Life, Whoever You Are, I Love You, Dream Sweet Dreamer, Wine Is Young, One Less Bell to Answer, Love Song, (They Long to Be) Close to You, You Are the Heart of Me, Sure Thing, Jealousy, World of My Dreams, I Didn't Mean to Love You
Record label	Rhino
Target audience	Adult
Composer	Dionne Warwick
Songwriter	Dionne Warwick
Number in series	1
Occasion	All Occasion
Track name	You'll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart), I Say A Little Prayer, Forever My Love, Here Where There Is Love, For The Rest Of My Life, Whoever You Are, I Love You, Dream Sweet Dreamer, The Wine Is Young, One Less Bell To Answer, Love Song, Close To You, You Are The Heart Of Me, Sure Thing, Jealousy, World Of My Dreams, I Didn't Mean To Love You
Digital audio file format	CD
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N