Dionne Warwick - Friends Can Be Lovers

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Music Review: HIGHLY UNDER-RATED SET AMONG WARWICK'S BEST EVER!!!
Rating: 4 Stars

Much is being said in the 90s about the glory days of years gone by -- and a lot of it can be considered fact. However, if the talk about R&B pop divas leads to reference of vocalist Dionne Warwick, one should listen to the entire "Friends Can Be Lovers" album before reaching opinion, as (to this writer's ears at least) this recording is perhaps the best record she has done in awhile. Right from the warm and pretty Burt Bacharach/Hal David reunion tune "Sunny Weather Lover" to the concluding tones of "I Sing At Dawn" there is no question that Warwick feels relaxed and happy to be singing good songs. (She even wrote the English lyrics to the spellbinding "I Sing At Dawn"!) The singer shines in this jam-packed set of would-be hit singles. Had Arista, say, put their marketing dollars behind Warwick instead of cousin Whitney Houston . . . the possibilities are endless. All-around the project the ! ! singer shines and offers hope in these desperate times of little faith.

"Age Of Miracles" may be a hard pill to swallow, admittedly, but songs like the clever, bouncy "Where My Lips Have Been" and the cliché-ridden but stylish "Love Will Find A Way", with Houston are proof that good pop music is still being made.

"Til The End Of Time" offers up a funky Dionne who actually comes correct when she commands: "Break it on down now!" towards the catchy tune's coda. "The Woman That I Am" is intelligent music, as is the effectively under-stated rendering of Sting's "Fragile".

This is certainly another disc to add to a list of "lost desert island" take-alongs!

KDP

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Blues CDs

• Music > Styles
• Broadway & Vocalists
• Pop
• R&B
• Rock