Promises Promises/This Girl Is In Love With You/Little Green Apples/Where Is Love/Who Is Gonna Love Me/ Whoever You Are I Love You/Where Am I Going/Wanting Things/Lonely In My Heart/Yesterday I Heard The Rain
Promises Promises consists of several Bacharach-David songs, along with covers of recent hits. The title track, taken from the Broadway musical, was a US No. 19 hit single and This Girl's In Love With You, a US No. 7. (US:18)
"This music is achingly beautiful. Each song epitomizes the classic Dionne Warwick 'sound', that brand of sweetly melancholy romantic melodies and arrangements."
"One of the most original voices and smartest phrasings I have ever heard in popular music. Her repertoire here takes the best and the worst from Bacharach & David team along with some other authors."
"No one, but no one, did (or does) Bacharach/David music like Ms. Dionne Warwick. This album captures the songwriters at their creative peak, and Dionne at the apex of her vocal and interpretive powers. There are also covers of popular songs of the day such as Where Am I Going that are superb. If Dionne isn't the Queen of Champagne Soul, I don't know who is. This is lounge music at its finest."
"Promises Promises is a real pearl, simply brilliant Bacharach-David at their best, and Bacharach's arrangements are pure fire. Also Bacharach-David's originals Who Is Gonna Love Me, and Whoever You Are I Love You and pure gems. Dionne, one of the greatest singers ever, makes a piece of easy-listening fluff into an emotional experience, finding the grit and soul of the lyrics and interpreting in her inimitable style, flawless timing and phrasing."
"She's retreated from the last album's orchestra excess to a refined, even-keeled stream of easy listening. It's nothing radically different than before (save the lite-soul groove of Little Green Apples), but her voice is certainly less dynamic. Instead of her classic tone, full of depth and presence, Warwick has opted for a more austere, distant sound. And while this change results in crisper fortes and a smoother higher register, her yearning lacks its former effortlessness."
"While it's generally superior late-'60s pop-soft soul (emphasis on pop and soft), a bunch of covers and show tunes come off as padding."
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