The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Yes I have seen the Count Basie clip and I really don't think I've ever seen nor heard a vocal display of that amount of power, outside of maybe opera singers. I just wish it was in better quality. And you know what, I really think Dionne really held back alot on showboating and showing her amazing ...

I notice browsing other boards and looking at youtube comments that for certain singers, posters seem to know exactly which notes people like Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey can hit, how many octaves they have, etc. Has there ever been a similar discussion about Dionne? To me, Dionne has such a tech...

Yeah, I'm not really thrilled about it either. Dionne has for the most part been so classy (Psychic Friends aside), and seems too good for this show. Let's just hope that she does well and comes across good. I'm sure the jokes will start flowing about Dionne and Whitney being nuts and drug addicts, ...

Oh, and of course I know that chart success doesn't have anything to do with the quality of the music. In fact, I oftentimes prefer the minor hits (stuff that made it to say #27) to the big well known songs that can get kind of old from having heard them so often. Hearing things like Natalie Cole an...

BtoB, I guess now that I think of it, Dionne charted better than I realized. I guess growing up in the late 70's and through the 80's and 90's, I was seeing people like Michael Jackson score 5 #1's off of a single album and compared to that, Dionne's success seemed much less. And then Dionne's own c...

Can anyone tell me if there is a list of who was on backup on the songs Dionne recorded with Burt? From what I understand, DeeDee was there most of the time (you can always hear her warm tone) as was Cissy Houston. In the earliest sessions I believe Doris Troy was there, along with someone name Myrn...

I have often wondered why Dionne did not perform more strongly on the charts (Billboard specifically). She is a living legend with only 2 number one hits in her decades long career, although she has sent I believe 31 songs into the top 40. What is surprising is the fact that Dionne never really had ...

BacktoBacharach,

You seem to be such a font of knowledge on Dionne-

Could you please identify for me who the backup singers are in the video of Dionne in Spain singing On my Own I posted above? Of course I know that's DeeDee on the far left! Thanks!

I believe Joe Kloess was Dionne's pianist and band leader from at least 1980 through much of the 1990's. How does everyone feel he was at interpreting Burt's arrangements?

I really love this song....one of my favorite midtempo ballads from the 80s. From what I understand Dionne recorded this for the Friends album, but inexplicably Clive Davis decided it wasn't good enough to be included on the album. On My Own seems like it's tailor-made for Dionne, and if you've seen...

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BtB, this may be blasphemy, but I don't really care for some of Dionne's vocal on "How Many Days of Sadness". I am not educated on the appropriate musical terms, but when she is really wailing towards the end of the song, she sounds off key or something to me. In some of Dionne's very earl...

BacktoBacharach-- please don't leave us! You are such a wealth of knowledge it would be a shame to lose. Isn't there something we can do to stop this? It seems like all the messages are coming from a single poster -- "casparfu". Is there a way to ban him or her from posting?

Warner Bros.: His House and Me

Want to hear your thoughts on Dionne's most impressive vocal recordings from both the Scepter years and Arista years.

Arista - For me it's a toss-up between Love Doesn't Live Here Anymore and Walk Away

Scepter - Who Is Gonna Love Me or maybe even Slaves