Dionne Warwick - Now

Easy-listening soul singer Dionne Warwick is forever associated with the songwriting duo of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Her versions of their songs are among the most significant hits in a career has seen the renowned artist win five Grammy Awards and rank second only to Aretha Franklin as the world’s most charted female vocalist. “Those songs were written for me,” says Warwick, now 71. “It’s like a well-tailored dress. I put it on my body, nobody else could wear it the same way.”

Now, reworkings of those and other hits, proves her point. Although Warwick’s voice is a little huskier these days, her new versions of Bacharach-David songs like “(There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me” and “I Say a Little Prayer” are still unmistakably classic Warwick. The latter, sung with her son David Elliott, is made more poignant by the recent deaths of composer David and her cousin Whitney Houston.