(Scepter single, 1963)
A peerless heartbreaker, with vocalist and orchestra at loggerheads, the former trying to convince the latter this affair has a future, the musicians too wise to be deluded. Even Bacharach struggled to explain the shifting time signatures. No imitations come close.
(from Make Way For Dionne Warwick, Scepter, 1964)
With nine future Bacharach/David standards – including Walk On By – Warwick’s third LP is among the Brill Building’s greatest calling cards, but it’s this cut of a song already essayed by The Shirelles and Chuck Jackson that closes the album, Warwick’s vibrato making every line her own.
(Scepter single, 1967)
The cute backing vocals, the Tijuana Brass trumpet (which Warwick brilliantly mimics on the break as if mocking its ubiquity), the barroom piano fills, the hairpin tempo…
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