My Friends & Me Dionne Warwick

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  • Release Date: 11/07/2006
  • Sales Rank: 11,639
  • Label: CONCORD RECORDS
  • UPC: 888072231023

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My Friends & Me

1LISTENWalk on By / Gloria Estefan 2:56
2LISTENMessage to Michael / Cyndi Lauper 3:00
3LISTENClose to You / Mya 4:01
4LISTENI'll Never Love This Way Again / Gladys Knight 4:21
5LISTENRaindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head / Kelis 2:28
6LISTENDéjà Vu 4:51
7LISTENI Say a Little Prayer 3:09
8LISTENAnyone Who Had a Heart / Wynonna Judd 3:45
9LISTENThen Came You / Lisa Tucker 3:27
10LISTENWishin' and Hopin' / Olivia Newton-John 3:04
11LISTENLove Will Find a Way / Cheyenne Elliott 4:58
12LISTENThe Windows of the World / Deborah Cox 3:28
13LISTENDo You Know the Way to San Jose / Celia Cruz 5:46

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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." John Bush, All Music Guide

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My Friends & Meby Anonymous

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December 01, 2006: I've seen Dionne in concert 46 times in the past 15 years and I've heard her promote this particular project in her concerts for the past 5 years or so. I was expecting something far more magical then what we got. I find it a challenge to say anything negative about Dionne, she's by far one of the greatest singers of all time. But she missed the mark with this one. Most Dionne fans had hoped that we'd be treated to a CD of new music and still hope this will come someday. To revise the old classics yet again, well, I would have picked better songs and a few better partners. Most tracks sound like the duet partners clearly recorded their parts seperately. And the arrangements, we can't forget the classic style of Bacharach and David - but they did. Walk on By and Wishing and Hoping are two that come to mind, both of which sound like Karaokee versions of the song. And, while I appreciate the gesture, to sing with the great Dionne you need to be a singer of her magnitude. Cyndi, Wynonna, Olivia, Gladys - sure. But the rest of you, way out of your league! I'm also so very disappointed that a project that would take so long would be called "duets" when one of the songs (San Jose) is a rehashing of a previously released version (Dionne has thousands of songs, find a new one!!) and Deja Vu was not a duet (they should be lined up to sing with Dionne). I've read lots of comments about Dionne's Grandaugher's vocals and I will say is "good for you sweetie"...if I had the chance to sing with your Grandmother - I would !!!

My Friends & Meby Anonymous

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November 09, 2006: A legend. There's no doubt about it. But during the last couple of years her once golden voice have declined a lot due to her obsessive smoking, and it shows BIG time on this record. Many of the duets are lovely (especially "I'll Never Love This Again" with gal pal Gladys Knight), but otherwise, Dionne's voice just isn't there. Her pitch is all over the place, and her frog-like croaking actually borders the "has been" line. Dionne is by no means a has been, but the state her voice is in is bound to break the hearts of many Dionne followers. Dionne was once one of the world's best critically acclaimed singers and she still is, unfortunately her instrument is no longer working.


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