― naked as sin (naked as sin), Monday, 28 October 2002 04:19 (twenty-three years ago)
what happened to the rest of this thread?
― john. a resident of chicago., Friday, 25 January 2008 01:32 (eighteen years ago)
Damn this is a serious tune.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 25 January 2008 08:19 (eighteen years ago)
yes great - reminds of german oompah music or something.
― Frogman Henry, Friday, 25 January 2008 08:34 (eighteen years ago)
My little chat with Dionne is in t'local paper today, as it happens (we spoke on Monday). Don't Make Me Over was her debut solo single, after she was spotted by Burt Bacharach while doing backing vocals on The Drifters' "Mexican Divorce" (so she told me).
― mike t-diva, Friday, 25 January 2008 09:47 (eighteen years ago)
In Britain, the hit version was recorded by Swinging Blue Jeans, The.
You couldn't make it up.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 25 January 2008 09:51 (eighteen years ago)
Worrabout Sybil in 1989 though?
― mike t-diva, Friday, 25 January 2008 09:53 (eighteen years ago)
Shows you how memorable that was dunnit?
(SAW I presume)
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 25 January 2008 09:54 (eighteen years ago)
Strikes me that Dionne hasn't had the Rhino-style definitive box set/compilation which surely is long overdue. I'd like a compilation which didn't have just The Hits and included all the Hasbrook Heights stuff, etc. Perhaps they could get noted Dionne fan and expert Evan Parker to write the notes.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 25 January 2008 09:57 (eighteen years ago)
xpost: I think Sybil was still US-based at the time. She did some OK stuff in the early days (Falling In Love, My Love Is Guaranteed etc). Her cover of DMMO was part of that late 89/early 90 deluge of cover versions of soul classics with the Keep On Movin'/Back To Life rhythm slapped on top of them.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 25 January 2008 10:03 (eighteen years ago)
I remember the controversy over My Love Is Guaranteed (which definitely was an SAW production) since M/A/R/R/S accused them of pinching the Pump Up The Volume bassline and rhythm for the record further to SAW slapping a writ on M/A/R/R/S for sampling Roadblock on PUTV (are we all keeping up with this?) which meant that PUTV was temporarily withdrawn from the shops, allowing SAW artist Rick Astley a fifth week at the top.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 25 January 2008 10:06 (eighteen years ago)
That was the UK remix on Champion, though; there was an earlier version on Next Plateau which had nothing to do with PUTV.
Re. Ms. Warwick, one message came over loud and clear on Monday: Dionne is preparing for retirement in the very near future, and she can scarcely wait for it.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 25 January 2008 10:09 (eighteen years ago)
:(
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 25 January 2008 10:31 (eighteen years ago)
Strikes me that Dionne hasn't had the Rhino-style definitive box set/compilation which surely is long overdue.
Rhino did have a two-record Dionne retrospective in the eighties. Haven't seen it in a long time (and I never bought it), but I seem to recall that it focused on the Scepter years, 1962-71.
― Rev. Hoodoo, Friday, 25 January 2008 21:01 (eighteen years ago)
Accept me for what I am Accept me for the things that I do
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 26 January 2008 05:52 (eighteen years ago)
My friend was just talking about Dionne Warwick and how she had a song produced by Barry Manilow. I always liked her, especially when I was a child, but I never had any of her records.
― Bimble, Sunday, 27 January 2008 06:57 (eighteen years ago)