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Here is Dionne singing this live this month, over the backing track from the 15-year-old recording. Including some oddly placed backing vocals! Still, I have to say she can still sing it well in this key (a little higher than the one in her concerts) and it sounds a lot better. https://www.youtube.c...

Dionne has been performing a few songs she hasn't done for quite some time and she's sounding great at nearly 79. Here are a few clips for anyone interested: Always Something There To Remind Me: https://www.facebook.com/didi.herrenberg.7/videos/2265412473740328/?t=325 Don't Make Me Over, Walk on By,...

Dionne singing I Say A Little Prayer in it's original arrangement at the Carnegie Hall in February (though in a lower key of course) - her voice seems to be getting better and better again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OltoqtNna40

A few unusual occurences in this concert from Dionne Warwick. She has a much more comprehensive band than is usual - not her own, but Rob Shrock does appear to be on piano and conducting. She performs the full length version of Walk on By, she performs Hasbrook Heights with Rumer, and also performs ...

It's sad really, isn't it. I don't know that Dionne was trying to call out Aretha but even if she was it's not nice to drag this out in public. I suspect it was triggered by Dionne approaching Aretha more than anything else.

Dionne is definitely enjoying a bit of a vocal Renaissance right now, and I love it! What do you think is going on? As much as I love her, I was ready to call for her retirement about 3 or 4 years ago, yet now she is kicking ass all over again! I'm not sure that "I'll Never Love This Way Again...

I just wanted to highlight for the Dionne fans on here that she performed two songs in honor of Clive Davis last night at Radio City Music Hall. The first ( here ) was I'll Never Love This Way Again - I think it's possibly the best rendition of the song I've heard her perform in the last 17 years, w...

It looks like I'm kind of talking to myself here, but I just thought I'd point out that someone uploaded her full concert from two nights after I saw her. It is an exact replica, except she was in even better voice here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS82QEPlhnI. Enjoy! In this concert she sounds...

Sorry for the double post, but here is a corrected version of the performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc78ar5d7xY I reduced the speed of the playback by around 2% and that seems to have brought the pitch back to the original, or at least very very close to. It sounds the same as the origina...

Funny story: my wife likes to say that Dionne's voice has always had an "old" (mature) quality to it, even when she was very young. I agree, to an extent. However, I rushed to show her this concert because I felt that Dionne has a decidedly "young" tone here, and she concurred. ...

Wasn't her voice just so effortless and flexible back in the 60s! it's the first time I've heard This Empty Place performed live and it's as excellent as the rest of this set.

Not strictly Burt related, but I know there are some Dionne fans here. Here she is singing We Are The World with Jon Secada at the La Musa awards this time last year. She sounds great - in a higher key than the original recording too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEaW75GfZpA

I'm sure he must be. As is always the case with these things, the information referred to by him is speculation and guesses based on limited information presented as irrefutable fact.

You must be insane to believe that nonsense. Dig a little deeper and you'll find any evidence of this type is produced by conspiracy theorists who twist snippets of fact and information to fit into their agenda. Much like some of the worse parts of the media, in fact - the media that they reject for...

Rest assured, none of us around here will ever tire of discussing Dionne! She and Burt are forever intertwined in our hearts and minds. Thank you so much for the video! Wow! You have given us fans something to show people who erroneously claim that Dionne can't belt or doesn't have range, and for t...