What we therefore hear is a completely different reading of the same song, and itвЂ™s quite frankly spectacular.ДЇor the album Vandross had written a song specifically for Warwick entitled вЂSo AmazingвЂ™. The song even featured The Shirelles, but Vandross slowed the arrangement right down compared to the original, just as he had done with his version of вЂA House Is Not A HomeвЂ™. Warwick even found room for a cover of The ShirellesвЂ™s hit вЂ Will You Still Love Me TomorrowвЂ. Michael McDonald contributed one song, the emotional and sparsely arranged вЂ I Can Let Go NowвЂ, and Warwick even wrote one song, вЂ Two Ships Passing Through The NightвЂ. But for much of the album Vandross returned Warwick to her roots, featuring some excellent ballads and orchestral arrangements. Vandross kept the groove going on вЂ I Do It Cause I Like ItвЂ, another catchy eighties groove that somehow went unnoticed. It was a bouncy, dance-able track that featured a simple but catchy lyric, not dissimilar to her hits written by Bacharach and David. The song was written by Vandross and bassist Marcus Miller, and you can hear MillerвЂ™s tasty bass chops run throughout the song. The album opened with the fabulous вЂњGot A DateвЂќ, a song produced in the same mould as VandrossвЂ™s break-out hit вЂ Never Too MuchвЂ. The album was entitled How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye, and was a mixture of VandrossвЂ™s eighties grooves and WarwickвЂ™s timeless elegance. And itвЂ™s probably safe to assume that Vandross was excited with the prospect. Given VandrossвЂ™s rising fame and reputation as a producer and songwriter, he would craft hits for Aretha Franklin and Cheryl Lynn, as well as himself in the same period, pairing him up with Dionne Warwick seemed logical. As a matter of fact, I would sometimes tell people myself that we were related, which pleased him very muchвЂќ Warwick wrote that вЂњ e laughed about this and became great friends. Trying to impress a friend at university, Vandross made up the lie that he was related to Warwick, only for the friend to ask Vandross later on whether he was going to see his cousin perform when she was in the area. She showed me there were standards.вЂќ Warwick tells a story in her autobiography about when Vandross once pretended that she was in fact his cousin. He was quoted as saying that: вЂњ hen I saw Dionne Warwick at the Brooklyn Fox my life changed. VandrossвЂ™s love affair with Dionne Warwick had begun years earlier. Vandross would famous go on to sing the song at the 1986 NAACP Image Awards directly at Warwick, delivering perhaps his best ever live performance, and making Warwick cry in the process. In her autobiography Warwick said that his version of вЂA House Is Not A HomeвЂ™ was вЂњso beautifully done, I was at a loss for wordsвЂќ. Unlike WarwickвЂ™s version, it featured a stripped back, much slowed down arrangement that allowed Luther to lengthen the song to 7 minutes, creating in the process arguably the best version of the Bacharach-David classic ever recorded (sorry Dionne).Д«ut even Warwick agreed. He went solo in 1980 releasing his epic debut album Never Too Much.В The album featured a cover of a Dionne Warwick classic, вЂ A House Is Not A HomeвЂ. He became a sought after backing vocalist and vocal arranger, working with Chic, Bette Midler, Roberta Flack and even David Bowie on Young Americans. Vandross had begun his career singing on Sesame Street as well as recording jingles for radio adverts. To follow-up the success of Heartbreaker Warwick was paired with a new, up-coming singer-songwriter-producer by the name of Luther Vandross. Then, nearly 3 years later she scored a huge hit with the Heartbreakeralbum, produced by the Bee Gees, who gave Warwick a mega-hit with the albumвЂ™s title track.

She released a couple more albums, including an excellent live album вЂ“ but they didnвЂ™t match the success of her first Arista hit. Then in 1979 she signed with Clive Davis on his Arista Records label, and had a вЂcomebackвЂ™ with the million-seller вЂ IвЂ™ll Never Love This Way AgainвЂ. She would launch a concert tour with Isaac Hayes, which yielded the excellent live album A Man and A Woman, featuring the superb mixing of вЂ By The Time I Get To PhoenixвЂ™ and вЂI Say A Little PrayerвЂ™ into one song. Warwick did score a hit with вЂ Then Came YouвЂ, a fabulous single that featured The Spinners. However, by the time the seventies rolled around WarwickвЂ™s output was beginning to dip, no thanks to the creative split between Bacharach and David. During the sixties she became a household name through her collaborations with theВ mighty duo of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and the pair would craft some of WarwickвЂ™s biggest hits, including, but not limited to, вЂ Promises, PromisesвЂ, вЂ Walk On ByвЂ, вЂ Do You Know The Way to San Jose?вЂ, and the original version of вЂ AlfieвЂ. SheвЂ™s one of the most gifted singers ever to record, and one of the best selling artists of all time. How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye album cover.

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