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by BachtoBacharach
Fri Jan 10, 2020 5:01 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: I Say a Little Prayer Rehearsal Film from 1966
Replies: 5
Views: 7489

I Say a Little Prayer Rehearsal Film from 1966

Fascinating film of a portion of the 1966 rehearsal session for I Say a Little Prayer.

https://youtu.be/UhHm53BKf4w
by BachtoBacharach
Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:19 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: New Version of What the World Needs Now by Dionne Warwick
Replies: 8
Views: 28069

Re: New Version of What the World Needs Now by Dionne Warwick

Well, so much for that! I fell for the con! I sounded better 15 years ago than I do now! Warwick and Elliott continue to foist bogus lackluster crap on the public. The video clearly shows a current Warwick singing or lip syncing to the 15 year old recording. Besides, I should have known better since...
by BachtoBacharach
Sun Mar 31, 2019 9:38 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: New Version of What the World Needs Now by Dionne Warwick
Replies: 8
Views: 28069

New Version of What the World Needs Now by Dionne Warwick

Surprisingly good remake of What the World Needs Now by Dionne Warwick from the forthcoming album She’s Back. Warwick sounds better than she has in years.

https://youtu.be/m5Chxe89O6c
by BachtoBacharach
Mon Feb 18, 2019 8:35 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: New Dionne Album
Replies: 7
Views: 27652

Re: New Dionne Album

Blair, with Damon Elliott at the helm, I am afraid that this album will be just as dreadful as those he produced for his mom in the early 2000s. At least from what I’m hearing this may be a little bit of a departure since apparently they are not mining Warwick’s back catalogue. I do recall that the ...
by BachtoBacharach
Mon Dec 31, 2018 5:04 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Was it Dionne or was it Burt/Hal?
Replies: 4
Views: 23035

Re: Was it Dionne or was it Burt/Hal?

Hereiam, regarding the false narrative that Warwick was too "white" and sang white music, I respond below. As Cissy Houston famously remarked when asked in an interview about the matter regarding Warwick's "blackness" dismissed the whole discussion with a simple question: "H...
by BachtoBacharach
Mon Jun 18, 2018 3:31 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Revelations about Dee Dee Warrick
Replies: 7
Views: 19208

Re: Revelations about Dee Dee Warrick

Cissy Houston was largely an absent mother who was apparently hell on wheels, from all accounts, when she deemed it necessary to make an appearance in her children's lives, particularly when she was trying to establish a solo career and getting nowhere. I've heard tell she would come in off tour lik...
by BachtoBacharach
Fri Jun 01, 2018 1:50 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Revelations about Dee Dee Warrick
Replies: 7
Views: 19208

Re: Revelations about Dee Dee Warrick

I have never met Pat Houston on a personal basis but have heard enough scuttlebutt, public and private, to opine that she is a shady, shady character...a slick user and a manipulator. She has been manipulating Cissy and Gary for years and she was in Whitney's ear just about every waking minute. What...
by BachtoBacharach
Fri May 18, 2018 7:21 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Revelations about Dee Dee Warrick
Replies: 7
Views: 19208

Revelations about Dee Dee Warrick

Haven't posted in years here but I wanted to share my thoughts and opinions regarding the Houstons and the “revelation” that Whitney Houston was molested by Dee Dee Warwick at about the age of six to eight in that new documentary coming out that is "authorized by the Houston family". It wa...
by BachtoBacharach
Fri Dec 16, 2016 11:10 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: BachtoBacharach
Replies: 1
Views: 6314

Re: BachtoBacharach

Still here! Hope you are well!
by BachtoBacharach
Wed Jul 13, 2016 1:05 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)
Replies: 1308
Views: 1248913

Re: Put Your Youtube.com Links Here! (if you want)

Martyn, In the US, Dionne Warwick had a sizable hit in the US and Canada with Trains, Boats and Planes in mid-1966 and she sang the entire bridge which most artists who covered the tune didn't attempt. Warwick's version is by far my favorite recording of the tune and with an original Bacharach arran...
by BachtoBacharach
Sun Apr 24, 2016 11:23 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Neat Old French Film of Dionne Warwick-Cannes 1964
Replies: 0
Views: 14668

Neat Old French Film of Dionne Warwick-Cannes 1964

From Dailymotion, here is an interesting film of Dionne Warwick lip-syncing Walk On By with a jazz combo in the background. As French short films go, the photography by Jacques Duhamel is top notch. According to the end credits, these films (there are additional films for Anyone Who Had a Heart, Any...
by BachtoBacharach
Thu Mar 17, 2016 10:16 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: New Interview With Dionne Warwick and WTTW/PBS Chicago 1980 Park West Concert
Replies: 6
Views: 8349

New Interview With Dionne Warwick and WTTW/PBS Chicago 1980 Park West Concert

Here is a link to a recent interview with Dionne Warwick and Jackie Taylor who wrote the upcoming production of "Don't Make Me Over (In Tribute to Dionne Warwick)" which will be telecast in April on BET and was produced on stage for the Black Ensemble Theater in Chicago by Ms. Taylor. Also...
by BachtoBacharach
Wed Mar 16, 2016 8:20 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Dionne Warwick, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane from the O'Keefe Center 1967
Replies: 37
Views: 33761

Re: Dionne Warwick, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane from the O'Keefe Center 1967

Blair, the single was released on the Atlantic label in May of 1974 and went nowhere...it was originally released as Dionne Warwicke and Spinners. The re-release was issued in August1974, again on the Atlantic label not on Dionne's label, and the record hit...Warwick received top billing on both rel...
by BachtoBacharach
Sun Mar 13, 2016 10:40 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Dionne Warwick, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane from the O'Keefe Center 1967
Replies: 37
Views: 33761

Re: Dionne Warwick, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane from the O'Keefe Center 1967

Just Being Myself was an album that should have done better! Dionne was playing with a funky vibe on those tracks and she nailed it! I remember Dionne's 1973 appearance on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson to promote the tune and the album. Dionne was pregnant with Damon Elliott (b. Ma...
by BachtoBacharach
Sun Mar 13, 2016 10:32 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Dionne Warwick, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane from the O'Keefe Center 1967
Replies: 37
Views: 33761

Re: Dionne Warwick, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane from the O'Keefe Center 1967

Dionne's work with Thom Bell strangely left me unmoved except for the excellent "Then Came You" which a pairing with the Spinners allowed her to be more soulful and cut loose. Track of the Cat was not one of my favorite albums and the only tune I liked was Once You Hit the Road. Somehow, D...