Dionne Warwick in Paris
Dionne Warwick in Paris | ||||
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Live album by Dionne Warwick | ||||
Released | April 14, 1966 | |||
Recorded | January 1966 | |||
Venue | Olympia, Paris | |||
Genre | R&B | |||
Label | Scepter | |||
Producer | Burt Bacharach, Hal David | |||
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Singles from Dionne Warwick in Paris | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Record Mirror | [2] |
Dionne Warwick in Paris is Dionne Warwick's sixth album, and was released on April 14, 1966 on Scepter Records. It was recorded during Warwick's five-week engagement at the Paris Olympia in January 1966 and was released shortly after the tour was completed. The LP was issued as number 534 in the Scepter Catalog. The liner of this LP is pink with three pictures of Warwick side-by-side, not unlike the Make Way for Dionne Warwick album two years earlier.
History
The album featured a major hit single that almost didn't happen: "Message to Michael". Robin Platts says in his book, Burt Bacharach & Hal David,[3] that Warwick was at the Olympia as co-star of "The Sacha Show" alongside Sacha Distel, a French heartthrob that Florence Greenberg was considering signing to Scepter. Distel wanted to record a version of Bacharach and David's "Message to Martha" and had asked Warwick to record a guide vocal. Warwick re-gendered the piece to suit her, and when executives at Scepter heard the recording, a single was issued. Bacharach and David were convinced that the song was better recorded by a man, but nonetheless agreed that Warwick's version was a stunning one indeed.
"Message to Michael" was arranged and recorded by Jacques Denjean, thus becoming the first real single for Warwick at Scepter to not be produced by Bacharach and David. The single peaked at number eight on the Billboard charts. Additionally, according to Platts, the decision to release "Message to Michael" was largely due to the efforts of Scepter promotion executive (and a singer in his own right) Steve Tyrell.
Though the album included French versions of "A House Is Not A Home" and "You'll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart)", these were essentially phonetically-read versions over the same studio tracks of the original singles, and therefore not included in the actual performance. The album's liner quotes a Variety reviewer as stating that Warwick was "one Yank singer who could put over her wares completely in English and hit big."
Another song of note on the album is Cole Porter's "I Love Paris" which Warwick performed after being introduced on stage by Distel.
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "I Love Paris" | Cole Porter | 2:30 |
2. | "C'est si bon" | Henri Betti, André Hornez, Jerry Seelen | 3:00 |
3. | "Message to Michael" | Burt Bacharach, Hal David | 3:10 |
4. | "A House Is Not a Home" (French) | Bacharach, David | 3:10 |
5. | "Walk On By" | Bacharach, David | 3:00 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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6. | "Oh Yeah Yeah Yeah" (English and French with Sacha Distel) | Distel, Maurice Tézé | 3:50 |
7. | "The Good Life" | Jack Reardon, Distel | 3:17 |
8. | "La Vie en rose" (English and French) | Édith Piaf, Louiguy | 3:00 |
9. | "You'll Never Get to Heaven" (French) | Bacharach, David | 3:05 |
10. | "What'd I Say" | Ray Charles | 3:14 |
Personnel
- Dionne Warwick – vocals
- Burt Goldblatt - cover design, photography
References
- ^ Ron, Wynn. "Dionne Warwick: Dionne Warwick in Paris > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
- ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (9 July 1966). "Dionne Warwick: In Paris" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 278. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
- ^ Robin Platts. Burt Bacharach & Hal David: What the World Needs Now ISBN 1-896522-77-7
External links
- Dionne Warwick in Paris at Discogs
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- Make Way for Dionne Warwick (1964)
- The Sensitive Sound of Dionne Warwick (1965)
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- Here Where There Is Love (1966)
- On Stage and in the Movies (1967)
- The Windows of the World (1967)
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- The Magic of Believing (1968)
- Promises, Promises (1968)
- Soulful (1969)
- I'll Never Fall in Love Again (1970)
- Very Dionne (1970)
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- Then Came You (1975)
- Track of the Cat (1975)
- Love at First Sight (1977)
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- No Night So Long (1980)
- Friends in Love (1982)
- Heartbreaker (1982)
- How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye (1983)
- Finder of Lost Loves (1985)
- Friends (1985)
- Reservations for Two (1987)
- Dionne Warwick Sings Cole Porter (1990)
- Friends Can Be Lovers (1993)
- Aquarela do Brasil (1994)
- My Favorite Time of the Year (2004)
- My Friends & Me (2006)
- Why We Sing (2008)
- Only Trust Your Heart (2011)
- Now (2012)
- She's Back (2019)
- Dionne Warwick & the Voices of Christmas (2019)
- Dionne Warwick in Paris (1966)
- Hot! Live and Otherwise (1981)
- Christmas in Vienna II (1993)
- Greatest Hits: 1979–1990 (1989)
- The Love Collection (2008)
- "Don't Make Me Over"
- "Wishin' and Hopin'"
- "Anyone Who Had a Heart"
- "Walk On By"
- "You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)"
- "A House Is Not a Home"
- "Reach Out for Me"
- "Who Can I Turn To?"
- "Are You There (with Another Girl)"
- "Message to Michael"
- "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself"
- "Alfie"
- "The Windows of the World"
- "I Say a Little Prayer"
- "(Theme from) Valley of the Dolls"
- "Do You Know the Way to San Jose"
- "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me"
- "This Girl's in Love with You"
- "Odds and Ends"
- "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling"
- "I'll Never Fall in Love Again"
- "Make It Easy on Yourself"
- "I'm Your Puppet"
- "Then Came You"
- "By the Time I Get to Phoenix
- "Only Love Can Break a Heart"
- "I'll Never Love This Way Again"
- "Déjà Vu"
- "After You"
- "No Night So Long"
- "Easy Love"
- "Now We're Starting Over Again"
- "Heartbreaker"
- "All the Love in the World"
- "How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye"
- "Run to Me"
- "That's What Friends Are For"
- "Whisper in the Dark"
- "Love Power"
- "Reservations for Two"
- "Take Good Care of You and Me"
- "I Don't Need Another Love"
- "It's All Over"
- "Where My Lips Have Been"
- "What the World Needs Now Is Love"
- "The Good Life"
- "(They Long to Be) Close to You"
- "Do You Believe in Love at First Sight"
- "Solid Gold"
- "Never Gonna Let You Go"