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Music video by Duffy performing Warwick Avenue
with Jimmy Hogarth [Producer], Daniel Wolfe [Video Director], Grace Bodie [Video Producer]
(C) 2008 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Song from debut album "Rockferry"
Duffy, singing Warwick Avenue, live in New York City from Hiro Ballroom.
Duffy sings Warwick Avenue at the Pigalle Club
Duffy - WARWICK AVE
British newcomer Duffy performs the track 'Warwick Avenue', taken from her upcoming 2008 debut album Rockferry, at BBC2's Later... with Jools Holland.
The new video for Duffy's new single Warwick Avenue, out 23rd May. www.iamduffy.com.
Writes Hal David in his 1968 bestselling book "What the World Needs Now and Other Lyrics: Wishin' and Hopin' was the "B" side of a Dionne Warwick record (This Empty Place-#23 R&B, #83 Pop, released in February 1963). Dionne is a singer's singer; along with the public, other singers go out and buy her records. From time to time, they record some of her "B" sides. This happened to Wishin' and Hopin'. Among others, Dusty Springfield recorded the song for an album. If you listen to both records, you will find an amazing similarity. This is a compliment to Dionne as a singer and to Burt as an arranger. A New York Disk jockey named Jack Lacey liked this particular band (track) in a Dusty Springfield album. He programmed it each day. The demand he created was sufficient to get the record company to give Wishin' and Hopin' top priority exploitation. It became a tremendous hit. This would have never happened if Dionne Warwick hadn't recorded it first: because Dusty is a Dionne Warwick fan, she heard Dionne's record and liked enough to record it herself."
Dusty's cover version of Dionne's original Wishin' and Hopin' went to #6 on the USA Billboard Hot 100 in mid-1964, but failed to hit in the UK. Ironically, the Phillips USA label made a mistake when they released the Dusty single by giving label credit to songwriter Jerry Ragovoy for composing the tune rather than Bacharach / David!
Over 100 Dionne Warwick videos on Dibotis's Dionne Warwick Channel! Dionne Warwick was planning to quit the music industry entirely after her tenure ended in 1977 for Warner Brothers Records and use her music education to teach on the University level. In 1978, Clive Davis, legendary producer and head of Arista Records told Dionne "You may be ready to give up the music business, but the business is not ready to give you up." She would soon sign with Arista and would enjoy one of the biggest comebacks in the history of popular music. In 1979, I'll Never Love This Way Again", a huge international hit, ended Dionne Warwick's five year dry spell in the most spectacular fashion. The tune peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, #6 in Canada and #13 on the Billboard Magazine R&B Chart. The tune won Warwick a 1980 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and the tune Déjà Vu won for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, the first female vocalist to win in both categories in the same year. The tune received the RIAA Gold Award for sales of over 1 million copies and her Arista debut album, Dionne, reveived the RIAA Platinum Award for album sales of over 1 million copies. Cheryl Ladd had previously recorded this Richard Kerr-Will Jennings composed song as "I Know I'll Never Love This Way Again" in 1978, and Clive felt that Dionne could turn it into a blockbuster hit. Clive paired Dionne with producer Barry Manilow with one proviso on the project: they had to record "I'll Never Love This Way Again". Dionne love the tune but initially expressed reservations to Clive about working with Manilow, not because she didn't love Barry's music, her reservation was based upon his unique sound and Dionne stated she didn't want to become Dionne Manilow. The minute Dionne and Barry rehearsed together, the magic struck and Dionne was completely at ease. The album Dionne was critically acclaimed and Dionne was praised for her virtuosity. A bit of trivia: Dionne completed her Masters Degree from the Hartt College of Music and in 1989 she completed her studies at Hartt leading to a doctorate in Music Education. Dr. Dionne Warwick did a series of lectures on popular music in the 1990s at Harvard and several other Universities in the USA. Dionne is one of a few stars to hold a real Doctorate. Dionne's doctorate was earned, not by honorary bestowal, but by completing the requisite course work.
This Empty Place was Dionne's followup to her first hit Don't Make Me Over. This underappreciated tune charted nationally at #84 on the Hot 100. This start and stop dance track with Hal David's wry and witty lyric with a wonderful reading from the 21 year old Dionne is another tune that "shoulda been a bigger hit." This tune did hit it big in certain markets such as the Detroit area and in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. The tune was cut in an August 1962 session along with Don't Make Me Over, I Smiled Yesterday and Dionne's original Wishin' and Hopin" the "B" side of This Empty Place and a big hit for Dusty Springfield in 1964.
