Presenting – DIONNE WARWICK*****

This Empty Place/Wishin’ & Hopin’/I Cry Alone/Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah/Make The Music Play/If You See Bill/Don’t Make Me Over/Its Love That Really Counts/Unlucky/I Smiled Yesterday/Make It Easy On Yourself/The Love Of A Boy

Dionne Warwick's US debut album Presenting featured nine songs from the celebrated Bacharach-David musical partnership. Includes her first US hit Don't Make Me Over which peaked just outside the UK top twenty. The British LP with the same title has different tracks. (UK:14) "Dionne Warwick's first record for Scepter can be considered as the birth of a genius. The LP is the first full length collaboration between Warwick and the team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. It easily bridges the worlds of soul, vocal and pop with its unique sense of poise and class. Sung perfectly by Dionne throughout and arranged with orchestral brilliance by the young Burt."

"Singer and songwriters' winning combination of sophisticated arrangements, subtle orchestration, and Warwick's ingenious phrasing and muted tone is much in evidence."

"When a singer is singing the songs they personally love you can hear heaven in their voice. This album is a conduit between heaven and earth. Get it now."

"Dionne's first LP showed that rare quality of an artist with maturity beyond her years. The production on these releases is top notch. This LP still gives me joy since I first heard it years ago. Hear Dionne at the beginning of her career."

"There is a very soulful rawness to these recordings, 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."

"Did any other recording artist in the history of popular music have so many 'standards' under her belt by so young an age."

"The Bacharach and David songs (the bulk of these tracks) have never lost their impact over the years, and nor has Dionne's voice and delivery. The productions still sound wonderful."