Dionne Warwick in Billboard Dance top 50 august 3,2019

[Philles/Motown Gary]

And leave it you Gary to be the one that's familiar with this Dionne song! And that's one of the ones that slipped by me in real time , I only found out about it when I at last sought out the earliest disco songs in earnest . Too bad that song didn't have a longer version , say on the album [[ too soon for disco 12" remixes) ....might've gone #1!

Four years after Babs and Donna took NO MORE TEARS to #1 for four weeks , Dionne charted to #15 with :

Thank you, Jim. I remember asking you what songs you discovered when you decided to delve into the early disco years. If I had known you were discovering this kind of stuff, I would have been extra excited for you! I also love "Keeping My Head Above Water" and "Do You Believe In Love At First Sight" from Dionne's "Love At First Sight" LP/CD. Polly Brown did an equally good version of the latter as well.

Oh God, Jim, I hope you're merely testing my reaction to "Got A Date". As much as I love both Dionne AND Luther, I hate "Got A Date". Dionne didn't like that thing, either! What a disappointment that album was. The only tracks I love are "So Amazing", "How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye", and "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow". I hope I didn't just destroy one of your favorites, but I had to be honest with you.

[Bluebrock]

Thank you, Jim. I remember asking you what songs you discovered when you decided to delve into the early disco years. If I had known you were discovering this kind of stuff, I would have been extra excited for you! I also love "Keeping My Head Above Water" and "Do You Believe In Love At First Sight" from Dionne's "Love At First Sight" LP/CD. Polly Brown did an equally good version of the latter as well.

Oh God, Jim, I hope you're merely testing my reaction to "Got A Date". As much as I love both Dionne AND Luther, I hate "Got A Date". Dionne didn't like that thing, either! What a disappointment that album was. The only tracks I love are "So Amazing", "How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye", and "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow". I hope I didn't just destroy one of your favorites, but I had to be honest with you.

I agree with you on this one too Gary! Awful song. What was Luther thinking when he produced this for Dionne? He had done such great work with Aretha and Cheryl Lynne, but that album with Dionne was very mediocre with the notable exception of a couple of tunes.
I got the chance to ask Luther his opinion of it a few years later and he implied it was Record Company pressure that resulted in those almost unlistenable uptempo tracks. Little wonder Dionne herself was unhappy with the end results.

[Philles/Motown Gary]

I agree with you on this one too Gary! Awful song. What was Luther thinking when he produced this for Dionne? He had done such great work with Aretha and Cheryl Lynne, but that album with Dionne was very mediocre with the notable exception of a couple of tunes.
I got the chance to ask Luther his opinion of it a few years later and he implied it was Record Company pressure that resulted in those almost unlistenable uptempo tracks. Little wonder Dionne herself was unhappy with the end results.

Yeah, it's hideous! I didn't mind that they were uptempo dance tracks. Luther AND Dionne have each proven themselves more than capable on the dance floor. But the shlock on that collection was unbelievably disappointing. The merging of Luther and Dionne should have been a triumph.

[Bluebrock]

Yeah, it's hideous! I didn't mind that they were uptempo dance tracks. Luther AND Dionne have each proven themselves more than capable on the dance floor. But the shlock on that collection was unbelievably disappointing. The merging of Luther and Dionne should have been a triumph.

I seldom recall an album disappointing me as much as that one did. I was anticipating an absolute classic album. What could possibly go wrong? Dionne at the peak of her vocal powers being produced by one of her biggest fans, who also just happened to be one of the greatest male singer/songwriters of the era. I was so excited by the prospect of this album and it turned out to be a major disappointment for just about everyone concerned - Artist, Producer, Fan and Record Company.

[Boogiedown]

I hope you're merely testing my reaction to "Got A Date". As much as I love both Dionne AND Luther, I hate "Got A Date". Dionne didn't like that thing, either! What a disappointment that album was. The only tracks I love are "So Amazing", "How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye", and "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow". I hope I didn't just destroy one of your favorites, but I had to be honest with you.

You can relax Gary . That's the kind of noise that increasingly came to be heard in the clubs that added to the realization the party was over! I was trying to be subtle in my comparison to what Barbra Streisand released dance/disco wise, which Dionne snubbed her nose at, compared to what she eventually came up with. In other words if you're going to do [[the dreadful) disco, do it in the grand fashion that Streisand [[and Ross) did. Otherwise I agree with Dionne , best skip the whole thing.

Here's another posthumous song from that same '75 period I was excited to discover Gary which I suspect you'll be in agreement with:



I like to listen to that one periodically.