Odds & Ends: Scepter Records Rarities

Dionne Warwick

Paru le 12/01/2018 chez Rhino
Artistes principaux : Dionne Warwick
Genre : Soul

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Langue disponible : anglais

If there were better American pop singers in the '60s than Dionne Warwick, there certainly weren't very many of them. Warwick was blessed with a splendid voice as well as the knowledge of what to do with its nuances; there were lots of great singers who were more demonstrative, but the understated warmth Warwick brought to her performances made her hits uniquely effective. And her work with songwriters and producers Burt Bacharach and Hal David was one of the most inspired teamings of the era; they gave her smart, beautifully crafted material, and she delivered it with heart, soul, and style. From 1962 to 1971, Warwick recorded for the scrappy independent label Scepter Records, and her hits for the label have been repackaged multiple times; Odds & Ends: Scepter Records Rarities goes another route, bringing together 25 rare and unusual tracks cut during her tenure with the label, ten of which see commercial release here for the first time. Most of the previously unheard material here consists of alternate versions of songs Warwick recorded for Scepter, while nine find her delivering phonetically translated versions of some of her better-known tunes in French, Italian, or German. Warwick's performances are uniformly skillful throughout, as one might expect, but the non-English tracks suffer from the fact that Warwick literally doesn't know exactly what she's singing and the performances consequently lack her usual engaging feel. And though Warwick is a superb song stylist, some of the tunes she tackles here -- particularly "Monday, Monday," "If You Let Me Make Love to You, Then Why Can't I Touch You?," and "Our Ages or Our Hearts" -- just don't mesh with her style as well as the Bacharach/David classics that made her reputation. Hardcore Dionne Warwick fans will doubtless enjoy Odds & Ends: Scepter Records Rarities, and it does confirm just how far her talents could stretch, but casual listeners are still best off with the outstanding Rhino anthology The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits, a definitive overview of the cream of the Scepter years.

© Mark Deming /TiVo

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