Dionne Warwick San Jose May 5, 1969 Grammy Special

[BachtoBacharach]

A clip from a special highlighting Grammy winners for 1968 originally broadcast on NBC on May 5, 1969 featuring Dionne Warwick singing her Grammy winning single "Do You Know the Way to San Jose." The clip does not show the intro by Burt Bacharach.

[steveo_1965]

Thanks for the post , It s a groovy clip, and Dionne looks wonderful in it..
I wish I could say the same about the arrangement, but its a re-arranged Bacharach chart
most likely by JOe Mele, her then conductor..the guitar part is "too wild", the trumpet parts are wrong, the whole thing kind is well, not very bacharach..Still, I enjoyed it for what iot was.."live"

Steveo

[BachtoBacharach]

It is a groovy clip! I remember seeing it in 1969 on the Grammy Special; when it originally aired Dionne was the hottest female vocalist in the country and her current release when this aired on May 5 1969 had just exited the top 10 chart after peaking at # 7 for a few weeks; that tune was a little ditty called "This Girl's In Love With You." Interestingly, "TGILWY" was engineered by Phil Ramone at A & R in Manhattan and is one of his favorite recordings and I have to say I love her version as well. A do agree about the arrangement for San Jose here...it's a little "night clubby"...bet the chart was done by the house arranger at NBC based upon either Bacharach's arrangenemt or Mele's road arrangement for Dionne...Joe Mele's arrangement is quite different and closer to Burt's original except at times in concert in the 60s and 70s sometimes the tempo was a little rushed as it is here. Dionne does look great and it's a pity Bacharach's introduction of Dionne is cut here. He was quite delighted to introduce Dionne and was obviously tickled that he and Hal wrote that Grammy winner for Dionne. A couple of weeks after this aired, Dionne and Burt did a medley of Alfie and What the World Needs Now on Jose Feleciano's first television special. That clip is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTrmYakCWGM