Sunday, December 8th
timeless
Dionne Warwick (1940-) and The Drinkard Singers (Cissy Houston [1933-2024], et al.), “Who Do You Think It Was?,” live (studio), 1967
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Illinois
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Tag: Dionne Warwick
2023
Friday, February 10th
passings
Burt Bacharach, songwriter, composer, pianist, record producer, May 12, 1928–February 8, 2023
“Anyone Who Had a Heart” (B. Bacharach & H. David): Dionne Warwick, live (with BB, piano), New York (Rainbow Room), 1996
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“A House Is Not a Home” (B. Bacharach & H. David): Luther Vandross, live, 1988
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“I Just Don’t Know What To Do with Myself” (B. Bacharach & H. David): White Stripes, live, Australia, 2006
2019
Sunday, September 8th
electrifying
Cissy Houston (1933-, Whitney’s mother, Dionne Warwick’s aunt), “I Do, Don’t You,” live
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2012
Sunday, 2/19/12
the first voice Whitney heard
Emily “Cissy” Houston (born Emily Drinkard), singer, 1933-
The Drinkard Singers (Cissy Houston, lead vocals), “Lift Him Up,” live (TV broadcast), c. early 1960s
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lagniappe
Live (TV broadcast), 1970
“Be My Baby” (P. Spector, J. Barry & E. Greenwich)
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“I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself” (B. Bacharach & H. David)
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listening room: (some of) what’s playing
• Ambrose Akinmusire, When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, Pierre Fournier, cello (Archiv Production)
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Well-Tempered Clavier, Glenn Gould, piano (Sony)
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Partitas Nos. 3, 4, 6, Jeremy Denk, piano (Azica)
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonatas Nos. 14 (“Moonlight”), 8 (“Pathetique”), 23 (“Appassionata”), Rudolf Serkin, piano (CBS)
• Alfred Cortot, The Master Pianist (EMI)
• Claude Debussy, Pour Le Piano, Etudes Books 1 & 2, Gordon Fergus-Thompson, piano (Musical Heritage Society)
• The Dirtbombs, Ultraglide In Black (In the Red Records)
• Morton Feldman, For Bunita Marcus, John Tilbury, piano (London Hall)
• Morton Feldman, Piano and String Quartet, Aki Takahashi (piano), Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch)
• Mary Halvorson Quintet, Saturn Sings (Firehouse)
• Slim Harpo, The Best of Slim Harpo (Hip-O)
• Paul Hindemith, Benjamin Britten, Krzysztof Penderecki; Kim Kashkashian (viola), Stuttgarter Kammerorchester (Dennis Russell Davies, cond.), Lachrymae (ECM)
• Steve Lehman Octet, Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi Recordings)
• Jimmie Lunceford, The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions (Mosaic)
• Guilliaume de Michaut, Motets, The Hilliard Ensemble (ECM)
• Paul Motian Trio (with Joe Lovano, Bill Frisell), Sound of Love (Winter & Winter)
• Mudd Up!, WFMU-FM (DJ/Rupture, “new bass and beats”)
• Pee Wee Russell, Swingin’ with Pee Wee (Prestige)
• Pharoah Sanders, Karma (GRP)
• Pharoah Sanders, Live (Evidence)
• Giacinto Scelsi, Natura Renovatur (ECM)
• Arnold Schoenberg, Piano Works, Peter Serkin, piano (Arcana)
• Sinner’s Crossroads, WFMU-FM (Kevin Nutt, gospel)
• Craig Taborn, Avenging Angel (ECM)
• Toru Takemitsu, Peter Serkin Plays the Music of Toru Takemitsu, Peter Serkin, piano (RCA/BMG)
• Anton Webern, Complete Music for String Quartet, Quartetto Italiano (Philips)
• Anton Webern, Works for String Quartet, Emerson Quartet (Deutsche Grammaphon)
• Wild Flag, Wild Flag (Merge)
2012
Sunday, 1/8/12
Let’s head back to Newark, to the church we visited last Sunday, this time to hear one of Dionne’s cousins, back when she was a young girl.
Whitney Houston, New Hope Baptist Church, Newark, New Jersey, 1970s
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what takes your breath away
It’s not the way she pulls out all the stops—lots of singers do that.
It’s how she pulls back (2:00-2:35, 3:00-3:20, etc.).
Whitney Houston, with mother Cissy Houston (Ann Drinkard Moss’s sister, Dionne Warwick’s aunt) nearby, “A Quiet Place,” TV broadcast
(Second clip originally posted 7/25/10.)
2012
Friday, 1/6/12
two takes
Here’s her first record as a solo artist.
Dionne Warwick, “Don’t Make Me Over” (B. Bacharach & H. David), 1962
Billboard Hot 100 #21, R&B #5
TV broadcast
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Recording
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When I first began, the kind of music I was recording was so unorthodox. It was like nothing else that was being played on radio at the time, and most people said, ‘Well, she won’t be around that long.’
—Dionne Warwick, 2011 Interview
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago (after a hearing at the nearby federal court building)
Franz Kline, Painting (1952)
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Jasper Johns, Corpse and Mirror II (1974-75)
(Some folks duck into a church in the noon hour—this is my church.)
2012
Sunday, 1/1/12
Dionne goes to church.
Dionne Warwick, “Up Where We Belong,” live, c. 1985
New Hope Baptist Church, Newark, New Jersey
Ann Drinkard Moss (Dionne’s aunt), Choir Director
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lagniappe
art beat
Helen Frankenthaler, December 12, 1928-December 27, 2011
Mountains and Sea (1952)
2011
Friday, 10/28/11
two takes
Some singers, some songs, I never tire of.
Dionne Warwick, “Anyone Who Had A Heart” (B. Bacharach & H. David)
Live (with Burt B. at the piano), New York (Rainbow Room), 1996
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Recording (Scepter 1963)
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lagniappe
three more takes
Dusty Springfield, recording (1964)
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Shelby Lynne, recording & video (2008)
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Ronald Isley, live (TV broadcast, with Burt B. at the piano, 2004)
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