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” a...
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She’s got good reason to feel good. The 73-year-old singing legend is still going strong. Here, the Grammy winner gives her Bacharach-David classics a new twist in duets with Ne-Yo, Jamie Foxx, Cyndi Lauper, her son David Elliott, granddaughter Cheyenne Elliott and others. Together with Ziggy Marley, the elegantly soulful vocalist even puts a fresh reggae spin on “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head.”
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