Sings the Bacharach & David Songbook [Import, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Dionne Warwick | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 27, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Mci
• ASIN: B000007WQB
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,073 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #58 in Music > Imports > Broadway & Vocalists
  • #89 in Music > Imports > R&B

Track Listings

1. Do You Know the Way to San Jose?

2. What the World Needs Now Is Love

3. Alfie

4. Message to Michael

5. I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself

6. I Say a Little Prayer

7. You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)

8. Anyone Who Had a Heart

9. I'll Never Fall in Love Again

10. Walk on By

11. Trains and Boats and Planes

12. Make It Easy on Yourself

13. A House Is Not a Home

14. (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me

15. The Look of Love

16. Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head

17. Wishin' and Hopin'

18. Only Love Can Break a Heart

19. Promises, Promises

20. Wives and Lovers

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, July 11, 2003

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Larry Hess (Lubbock, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sings the Bacharach & David Songbook (Audio CD)

I have recently become very interested in these songs (songs from my youth.) I had about 1/3 of this album on mp3 files and wanted the other songs available here.

Much to my disappointment, this album does not sound very good. While completely listenable, it sounds muddy and veiled. When comparing the same track back-to-back with my mp3 files, my older files always sounded clearer with better defined bass. This was true even though the mp3 files had a lower bit rate!

I am crushed, because I had hoped to obtain a "definitive" recording of these great songs. I guess I'll keep looking.

This album does not sound awful, and I will listen to it in my car where the differences may not be as noticeable. If you're looking for a "great" recording of these songs, I advise that you keep looking.

30 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor audio quality ruins great music, February 28, 2004

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Tom B "handydandy" (Westport, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sings the Bacharach & David Songbook (Audio CD)

I LOVE Dionne Warwick. Imagine my disappointment when I played this CD and from the opening track heard hiss and noise. Then on track two, "What the World Needs Now," there's so much distortion it makes the gorgeous song essentially unlistenable. And so on through the album. I'm going to recycle the disc through a used CD store, and get a different collection with better sound. Sorry, I don't yet know which one might be the best -- but it isn't this one.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic Dionne singing classic Bacharach!, September 2, 1999

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C. P. Donnellan (Montclair, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sings the Bacharach & David Songbook (Audio CD)

This is the music you have heard in countless elevators and department stores - and it never sounded better. Bacharach's music was deceptively simple-sounding while containing tricky key changes and sharps and flats. Dionne navigates it all as if she were singing a children's tune. Pure '60's and early '70's! Great for a theme party!