Customer Reviews

Hidden Gems: Best of 2

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Warwick is an elegant, wistful singer with a flexible voice and an expansive sensibility. Some of her finest performances are captured on this set. Her original versions of "Close To You" and "Wishin'and Hopin'" are great and stand up next to more famous versions by Dusty Springfield and The Carpenters.

Her creamy voice also brings out the romantic essence of familiat pop classics "In The Land of Make Believe", "The Look of Love" and "This Girl's In Love With You".

Rarities like "I Smiled Yesterday" and "Unlucky" are just as interesting as her biggest hits managing to be both melodically adventurous and lyrically interesting. "Slaves" is a charged performance and "This Little Light of Mine" is delightful. A few of the songs have a generic girl-group sound--but hey that was the sound of the times.

I would purchase her All Time Greatest Hits Colelciton (issued by Rhin oin 1989) because that gives you her best. This is an excellent companion giving a fuller picture of her impressive artistry. File her next to Aretha, Dusty, Janis, Nina, Brenda Lee, Laura, Jackie, Barbra and Joni as an essential '60s female voice.

Dionne was, and always will be, the best interpreter of Bacharach/David 's music. These songs are MUST-HAVES for any Dionne or BB fan. The album is worth getting, if only for the songs "Let Me Be Lonely" and "Who Is Gonna Love Me", which are just brilliant. This album proves that even Burt's "throwaway" or "album filler" songs are brilliant, memorable tour-de-forces in themselves. May I also add that Rhino's album design for this anthology is gorgeous, too. The only time I ever did drag was in Halloween, 1994: and I was Dionne as she appears on this CD cover... Enjoy!

Whenever Dionne Warwick steps up to a microphone, you can be sure that magic will be made. This collection is a sampling of some of her sixties work that is often overlooked on other compilations, and what a treat! The selections are great, especially "Who's Gonna Love Me?" and "Let Me Go to Him." Ms Warwick's vocals were in great shape, and she covered a wide variety of material, from bouncy tunes like "I Smiled Yesterday" to cool, relaxed tunes like "The Look of Love" to powerful ballads like "Let Me Be Lonely." A great collection. But there is one curious selection for a package called "Hidden Gems": the inclusion of "This Girl's In Love With You." All Warwick fans know that song was a TOP - TEN HIT! I wouldn't exactly call that "hidden," but it's a great song nonetheless.

I suppose I'm just as skeptical about buying a "Volume 2" of anything since so many of these sequals contain more obscure and horrible tracks on them than good tracks I'm accustomed to.
This CD was bought specifically for one hard-to-find track I always loved; "What the World needs now" by Dionne, which, in my opinion was the best recording of that song. I really didn't expect a Volume 2 CD to be near as good as Vol. 1, but to my delight was every bit as enjoyable.
Sure, there's quite a bit of music I've never heard on this CD, but take my word for it, this IS a beautiful CD in its entirety. The content was evidently compiled by someone who wanted to sell a great CD, not just a jumble of music mixed with one or two good songs.
This is an easy-listening contemporary CD, most songs in the Bacharach/David format which is self explanetory for music lovers.
Add Dionne Warwick's wonderful voice to beautiful music and you have a CD in your collection you'll keep. The best of Dionne Warwick, Volume 2 is one of them.

Forgotten album tracks from Dionne Warwick's Scepter output in the 1960's, fashioned by songmeisters Burt Bacharach and Hal David with just as much care as her singles--many of which are hidden hits in their own right. Naturally, us vinyl die-hards will complain about the usual omissions, but for a B-sides package, you can't go wrong with "Hidden Gems". Stand-outs: the gently popping "I Smiled Yesterday", the dramatic "Let Me Be Lonely", the wisftful "Unlucky", and the herky-jerky rock/R&B fusion of "You Can Have Him"(which Dionne herself hated).

This is a great CD.At least 15 songs I love on this Cd. " Make it easy on yourself " "Let me be lonely" " Who is gonna love me " "The look of love" . Are some of the best songs on the CD. It nice to have a Dionne CD without the usually hits on it.The Do you know the way to San Jose and Walk on by songs that are on all of her greatest cd's. This CD is a must have for Dionne fans.

This is another great collection of some non hits from the sixties of Dionne's music. This collections is simply wonderful, and gives farther proof that Dionne Warwick is one of the greatest vocalist of all times!!!!

This cd has forgotten hits, but where is her little known hit "Odds & Ends???" I remember hearing Dionne's version of Bacharach's Odds & Ends while getting my teeth worked on at my dentists office, playing in the background in the late 60's. It was a small hit, but a great songs. Why is it not on thsi