Anyone Who Had A Heart – DIONNE WARWICK*****

Anyone Who Had A Heart/Shall I Tell Her/Don’t Make Me Over/I Cry Alone/Getting Ready For The Heartbreak/ Oh Lord What Are You Doing To Me/Any Old Time Of Day/Mr Heartbreak/Put Yourself In My Place/I Could Make You Mine/This Empty Place/Please Make Him Love Me

Dionne Warwick's second album Anyone Who Had A Heart featured six Bacharach-David songs, specially written for her. Unfortunately, three tracks were carried over from her first album. In the UK Cilla Black topped the singles chart with the title track, sidelining Dionne's version to a very lowly No. 42, although it did significantly better in the States reaching No. 8.

"This release captures Dionne Warwick, the great '60s interpreter of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's immaculate pop songs, early in her recording career, and includes her first single, the sophisticated Don't Make Me Over, as well as her subtle original version of the duo's classic Anyone Who Had A Heart. Throughout, Bacharach's urbane arrangements are complemented perfectly by Warwick's graceful phrasing and delicate tone."

"This is pop vocalist Dionne Warwick's second long-player, which builds off of her debut LP. It continues her association with songwriters Hal David and Burt Bacharach. Her rich tonality is perfectly suited to their haunting and slightly noir material."

"The songs, highlighted by Anyone Who Had A Heart and Don't Make Me Over are some of the finest written in the 1960s. The arrangements are tasteful and restrained yet full of the hanky-wringing emotion that made 1960s girl singer music so uniquely visceral." "Dionne voice is like dying and going to heaven. All these great complex songs are sung amazingly. I have been a fan for 40 years and still going strong."

"There is a very soulful rawness to these recordings, her voice has deepened and mellowed in the intervening years so it is a 'time-machine' delight to revisit the songs as laid down back then. She had the added gift of two of the most famous collaborators in musical history, Bacharach and David, who appear to have known how to use her extraordinary gospel-tinged voice to bring a clarity and reality to the heartbreaking and soulful songs collected here. This is great music and a real gift to anyone who enjoys this particular style of 1960s pop."