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My Friends & Me, Dionne Warwick's collection of duets that revisit her classic recordings, benefits from her many talented friends in the music industry, but most of all from a family member. Her son Damon Elliott has worked with his mother for close to ten years, when he's not producing for contemporary hitmakers Pink, Destiny's Child, Jessica Simpson, Kelis, and Mya. Elliott's production for this record is engaging and charming, right up to the minute digitally on the rhythm end, but with plenty of space within the tracks to echo the airy productions of Warwick's long-time producer, Burt Bacharach. Also, Elliott kept most of these versions piano-based and added a tight backing chorus that is virtually necessary for anyone familiar with the original "Walk on By" or "Anyone Who Had a Heart." Dionne Warwick's voice, however, hasn't aged as well as her contemporaries, and the record often resembles a tribute album whose subject only stops by occasionally. (More often than not, the guests are featured more than Warwick herself.) The only track with radical changes is "The Windows of the World," which is presented with no less than four vocal guests (Angie Stone, Chanté Moore, Deborah Cox, Da Brat) and in a version that allows Da Brat to rap on the state of the world between the lines of the verses. Elsewhere, highlights come with Cyndi Lauper's quiet, pleading version of "Message to Michael," Kelis' "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," and Wynonna Judd's surprisingly smoky "Anyone Who Had a Heart."
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Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, ComposerLyricist - Hal David, ComposerLyricist - Gloria Estefan, MainArtist
℗ 2006 Concord Music Group, Inc.
Cyndi Lauper, MainArtist - Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, ComposerLyricist - Hal David, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2006 Concord Music Group, Inc.
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, ComposerLyricist - Hal David, ComposerLyricist - Mya, MainArtist - Hervé Roy, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2006 Concord Music Group, Inc.
Richard Kerr, ComposerLyricist - Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Gladys Knight, MainArtist - Will Jennings, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2006 Concord Music Group, Inc.
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, ComposerLyricist - Hal David, ComposerLyricist - Kelis, MainArtist
℗ 2006 Concord Music Group, Inc.
Isaac Hayes, ComposerLyricist - Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Adrienne Anderson, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2006 Concord Music Group, Inc.
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, ComposerLyricist - Hal David, ComposerLyricist - Reba McEntire, MainArtist
℗ 2006 Concord Music Group, Inc.
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, ComposerLyricist - Hal David, ComposerLyricist - Wynonna Judd, MainArtist
℗ 2006 Concord Music Group, Inc.
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Lisa Tucker, MainArtist - Phillip Pugh, ComposerLyricist - Sherman W Marshall, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2006 Concord Music Group, Inc.
Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, ComposerLyricist - Hal David, ComposerLyricist - Olivia Newton-John, MainArtist
℗ 2006 Concord Music Group, Inc.
Terry Steele, ComposerLyricist - David Elliott, ComposerLyricist - Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Cheyenne Elliott, MainArtist
℗ 2006 Concord Music Group, Inc.
Deborah Cox, MainArtist - Da Brat, MainArtist - Chanté Moore, MainArtist - Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Burt Bacharach, ComposerLyricist - Hal David, ComposerLyricist - Angie Stone, MainArtist
℗ 2006 Concord Music Group, Inc.
Unknown, ComposerLyricist - Dionne Warwick, MainArtist - Celia Cruz, MainArtist
℗ 2006 Concord Music Group, Inc.
Album review
My Friends & Me, Dionne Warwick's collection of duets that revisit her classic recordings, benefits from her many talented friends in the music industry, but most of all from a family member. Her son Damon Elliott has worked with his mother for close to ten years, when he's not producing for contemporary hitmakers Pink, Destiny's Child, Jessica Simpson, Kelis, and Mya. Elliott's production for this record is engaging and charming, right up to the minute digitally on the rhythm end, but with plenty of space within the tracks to echo the airy productions of Warwick's long-time producer, Burt Bacharach. Also, Elliott kept most of these versions piano-based and added a tight backing chorus that is virtually necessary for anyone familiar with the original "Walk on By" or "Anyone Who Had a Heart." Dionne Warwick's voice, however, hasn't aged as well as her contemporaries, and the record often resembles a tribute album whose subject only stops by occasionally. (More often than not, the guests are featured more than Warwick herself.) The only track with radical changes is "The Windows of the World," which is presented with no less than four vocal guests (Angie Stone, Chanté Moore, Deborah Cox, Da Brat) and in a version that allows Da Brat to rap on the state of the world between the lines of the verses. Elsewhere, highlights come with Cyndi Lauper's quiet, pleading version of "Message to Michael," Kelis' "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," and Wynonna Judd's surprisingly smoky "Anyone Who Had a Heart."
© John Bush /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:48:49
- Main artists: Dionne Warwick
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Concord Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2006 Concord Music Group, Inc. ℗ 2006 Concord Music Group, Inc.
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