Category: Dionne Warwick

"If You Never Say Goodbye"

“If You Never Say Goodbye”: Warner Brothers Drops the Ball

Dionne Warwicke‘s first album for Warner Brothers in 1972, sadly, was her last with masterful songwriting duo, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, their partnership in the process of dissolution. How perplexing that Warner Brothers would lure Dionne with a five-million dollar contract (big money in 1971) but then only release

July 23, 2013 No Comments

"Walk On By"

’20 Solid Gold Hits’: 19 Studio Tracks + 1 Live One

I was about to write that the Crystal Corporation (based out of “Nashville-New York”) was a Ronco/K-Tel predecessor who put out a fairly decent repackaging of hits in 1969 entitled, 20 Solid Gold Hits: Other offerings from Crystal But then I noticed that the Peter Max-inspired album design was done

March 18, 2013 No Comments