The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Bruce, Inga Freed, the wife of the famous (infamous) DJ Alan Freed was a secretary at Scepter during that time...she worked for Scepter for several years to pay off the debts her husband had accumulated...Florence Greenberg hired her; they were friends. Inga was a wonderful person, a tall attractive...

She is a singer! There are so few of those around these days. The tune is teriffic! I detest the "divas" of the past 10 years or so who so embellish a tune with their vocal trickery and gimmick that the tune is lost in translation. So many of these female singers sound so interchangable la...

Ron, Thanks. Those of us who have been around a long time can provide context for the Bacharach/David/Warwick recordings. Having lived through the 60s and loving their music, we both know that they were about the hottest thing going...giving the Beatles, Elvis, the Supremes and Aretha a run for thei...

Nope, it's like the Oscars; peers rule. But, Dionne has had 11 nominations and 5 wins so she has had very good luck at the Grammys. It's all peer driven, which means a lot; not disregarding a fan vote or a popularity contest but that's why the Oscars and the Grammys are so prestigous and the America...

Grammy's are awarded by peers. Public has no say. More info here: http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy

More on the Soulful album. Bacharach wasn't the only person who humored Warwick regarding Soulful. Florence Greenberg reluctantly agreed to the project believing that Warwick and Bacharch were, in the public's perception, joined at the hip and arranged the meeting in Memphis between Warwick, Moman a...

Here's my 2 cents worth! Bacharach was looking for a male who could bring his songs success as consistently as Dionne Warwick had; he was no dummy and I believe by the late 60s he knew that at any time his luck with Warwick could change. Warwick was beginning to be unhappy with Scepter and was growi...

Dionne has, for the most part, hidden her narcissism well from the public for all those years and I think that is why this is so shocking for many of her fans...her "fanatics" will be loyal to her no matter what and will excuse her behavior but those mainstream fans who have bought her rec...

Just throwing this out there for consideration. I see that this describes many, many celebrities, not only Dionne. Someone with Narcissistic Personality disorder (NPD) has at least 5 of these symptoms: •has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to ...

I am as gentle with this extraordinary singer as she is with others. I'm just calling it as I see it and you are calling it as you see it.

The blogs have been unkind with folks reminiscing from years ago about stories from those who worked with Dionne...from a stage manager an Ohio venue who always got the celebrities who performed at the theater to sign the stage door (from Red Skelton to Bob Hope) and Warwick refused to sign and said...

Dionne was fired tonight from Celebrity Apprentice. I am not sure why Dionne chose to participate but it was obvious to me that she was not committed either to her team or her charity. She came across tonight as self-absorbed and narcissistic by stating that she was the "matriarch" of the ...

Cissy was a great singer who never had the drive to be the star Dionne became. Cissy and Dionne are close; more like sisters than Aunt and Niece. Cissy was the youngest of the Drinkard girls and just a little older than Dionne. Actually, of all the Drinkard girls (and I'm including the daughters of ...

Patti Labelle is a whole different story! First, she is not in the same league fame wise as any of these women and she, like a lot of singers these days was always gimmicky from the get go...it has never been about Patti serving a song...it's always been about how Ms Patti can showboat. She overpowe...

Dionne, IMHO, had the best pipes of all the Drinkard girls. Not only could she sing anything but her timing, warmth, nuance, control, and phrasing is unsurpassed. Whitney has a lot of technical virtuosity but no warmth...and her material is dated and weak. Whitney is also a gimmicky singer who used ...