Sings Cole Porter

Dionne Warwick | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 12, 1990)
• Original Release Date: July 17, 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Arista
• ASIN: B000002VG5
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #113,716 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Night and Day

2. I Love Paris

3. I Get a Kick Out of You

4. What Is This Thing Called Love? [So in Love Medley]

5. You're the Top

6. I've Got You Under My Skin

7. Begin the Beguine

8. It's All Right With Me

9. Anything Goes

10. All of You

11. I Concentrate on You

12. Just One of Those Things

13. Night and Day [Jazz Version]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars NOT AS BAD AS THAT OTHER CRITIC SAID!, September 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Sings Cole Porter (Audio CD)

Wow, that was a harsh commentary by that critic above! This album, while certainly not a major triumph, is by no means bad or boring! Ms Warwick does a respectable job throughout, although she can't contend with the likes of the late Sarah Vaughan or Ella Fitzgerald when it comes to singing Porter. Warwick cites this as one of her favorite albums, and I really don't quite understand why. With all of the phenomonal work she's done in her career, this ranks somewhere in the lower half! Her new album, "Dionne Sings Dionne", is what she's all about - good singing and good material that's custom-made for her!

But this album does have some great moments. "What Is This Thing Called Love/So In Love" is beautifully executed, with just the right mix of mystery, emotion, and devotion that we'd expect. Also, "I Concentrate On You" is well done. This album could have done without the awkward "Begin the Beguine" or the boring "All of You." Everything else is respectable. A must-have for the serious Warwick collector, but for everyone else, I see no reason to buy it.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Pleasant but what a disappointment!, December 27, 2004

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John M. Abramson "bronty" (Panama City, FL, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sings Cole Porter (Audio CD)

When this was originally released I couldn't get my copy soon enough, not especially because of Dionne but because of the style of music. I have enjoyed Warwick's music in the past and think that it would've been lovely to have had her release a definitive anthology of Bacharach/David songs, at which she excelled. Here, she isn't ill-served by Porter's writing, for the most part, but the arrangements aren't so much awful as they are completely and unforgivingly generic; there isn't a single track that stands out in my memory for they all sound exactly alike: same tempo, same style, and even Dionne herself falls into the trap of sameness, giving each lyric the identical performance, though to her credit she does seem to be enjoying herself quite a bit. Every once in a while I'll play this album, just to see if my feelings have changed, and in the nearly-15 years since this was released, they haven't. Not at all. That said, for her big fans or those interested in this style of music but who aren't entirely discriminating, go for it - you'll probably enjoy it. For the serious fan of standards, however, I'd say buy it on the cheap. Definitely in that "nice, but no cigar" category.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dionne's tribute to Cole Porter., June 9, 2010

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Justo Roteta (Los Angeles, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sings Cole Porter (Audio CD)

This is a very fine (if at times misguided) concept album. Dionne's renditions of these all-time classics may not be as mind-blowing or as timeless as those of Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughan but Dionne was never a Jazz singer. That aside, most of these songs are definitely enjoyable and straddle the fence between Smooth Jazz and MOR-Pop and it's obvious that both Dionne and her producer Arif Mardin did the best they could. Sadly, this album was very poorly promoted by Arista Records and failed to get greater exposure.