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In
addition to my vinyl LP record collection I'm selling, I have hundreds of reel-to-reel, pre-recorded tapes as well. This is an entry about one of
them that is for sale on Amazon (see link below). Interested? Contact me by email, please, not by a comment.
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Of the many brilliant collaborations that have been formed, one of the most brilliant was that of Dionne Warwick, Burt Bacharach and Hal David. David wrote the lyrics, Bacharach wrote the music and Warwick delivered the finished package with elegance, style and beauty. The songs created by this trio, What The World Needs Now Is Love, Walk On By, Go With Love and Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head, for starters, are classics that have survived for 50 years. Yeah, believe it or not, they were written almost 50 years ago. My how time flies when you're having fun!
I remember listening to the songs she sang and in particular, I loved the beautiful lilt of her voice as she gently expounded on, What the World Needs Now Is Love. The song was originally recorded by Jackie DeShannon in 1965 after it had been turned down by Warwick. I was cognizant of the strife going on in the world at the time Warwick recorded her cover (1970) and thinking she was dead on right . . .
. . . in San Francisco, a homemade bomb, placed outside the police Park Station on Waller St., exploded. At first the Black Panthers were suspected but a later investigation suggested it was the work of the Weather Underground. The Vietnamese War raged on; the U. S. invaded Cambodia and storms of protest erupted throughout the nation, in particular, Kent State University. Thousands of people died in a 7+ earthquake in Peru. The Zodiac Killer terrorized San Francisco. There was a shootout in the parking lot of the Marin Civic Center; Angela Davis was involved. A gigantic cyclone killed hundreds of thousands in Bangladesh; a year later, in 1971, ex-Beatle George Harrison organized The Concert for Bangladesh. Even Canada had it's problems as well with bombings and killings by the Quebec Liberation Front. Ronald Reagan won his second term as governor. Yukio Mishima committed ritual suicide by Hara-kiri as an act of protest; Philip Glass would write a stunning score for the film of his life, Mishima. Jimi Hendrix died in London and Janice Joplin in Hollywood, both of a drug overdose. Sculptor Benny Bufano also died that year; I'd idolized his work since I was a little kid (especially his huge mural in Moor's Cafeteria on Powell Street). It was the year I quit my last real job to work for myself (then I needed all the love I could get). Yep, it seemed like the world was going mad, so, Marvin Gaye asked, What’s Going On? and on November 11, Stevie Wonder prayed, Heaven Help Us All, on the Johnny Cash TV show before the song was released in 1971 the following year.
Dionne Warwick ~ Go With Love
Dionne Warwick ~ Go With Love
reel-to-reel album cover
photo by Styrous©
I remember listening to the songs she sang and in particular, I loved the beautiful lilt of her voice as she gently expounded on, What the World Needs Now Is Love. The song was originally recorded by Jackie DeShannon in 1965 after it had been turned down by Warwick. I was cognizant of the strife going on in the world at the time Warwick recorded her cover (1970) and thinking she was dead on right . . .
. . . in San Francisco, a homemade bomb, placed outside the police Park Station on Waller St., exploded. At first the Black Panthers were suspected but a later investigation suggested it was the work of the Weather Underground. The Vietnamese War raged on; the U. S. invaded Cambodia and storms of protest erupted throughout the nation, in particular, Kent State University. Thousands of people died in a 7+ earthquake in Peru. The Zodiac Killer terrorized San Francisco. There was a shootout in the parking lot of the Marin Civic Center; Angela Davis was involved. A gigantic cyclone killed hundreds of thousands in Bangladesh; a year later, in 1971, ex-Beatle George Harrison organized The Concert for Bangladesh. Even Canada had it's problems as well with bombings and killings by the Quebec Liberation Front. Ronald Reagan won his second term as governor. Yukio Mishima committed ritual suicide by Hara-kiri as an act of protest; Philip Glass would write a stunning score for the film of his life, Mishima. Jimi Hendrix died in London and Janice Joplin in Hollywood, both of a drug overdose. Sculptor Benny Bufano also died that year; I'd idolized his work since I was a little kid (especially his huge mural in Moor's Cafeteria on Powell Street). It was the year I quit my last real job to work for myself (then I needed all the love I could get). Yep, it seemed like the world was going mad, so, Marvin Gaye asked, What’s Going On? and on November 11, Stevie Wonder prayed, Heaven Help Us All, on the Johnny Cash TV show before the song was released in 1971 the following year.
reel-to-reel album cover back
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It wasn't a completely bad year, no year ever is; as in the song, Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, from the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, she gave us some hope. B. J. Thomas originally sang the song and it was his #1 hit. Before him, both Ray Stevens and Bob Dylan turned it down.
The gentle song, which opens with a quiet banjo, is a paean to an optimistic attitude of mind based on an expectation of positive
outcomes related to events and circumstances in one's life or the world
at large. Oh, my goodness!!!
The single by Thomas reached #1 on charts in the United States, Canada, Norway and reached #38 in the UK Singles Chart. It topped the Billboard Hot 100
for four weeks in January 1970 and was also the first American
number-one hit of the 1970s. The song also spent seven weeks on the
Billboard adult contemporary chart. In 2008, the single was ranked 85th on Billboard's Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs and placed 95th in the 55th Anniversary edition of the All-Time Hot 100 list in 2013. Billboard Magazine also ranked the song 15th on its Top 50 Movie Songs Of All Time list in 2014.
One of the great vocalists of all time, Dionne Warwick
was born Marie Dionne Warrick on December 12, 1940, in East Orange, New Jersey. In November 1962, Scepter Records released her first solo
single, Don't Make Me Over, the title (according to the A&E
Biography of Dionne Warwick) Warwick supplied herself when she snapped
the phrase at producers Burt Bacharach and Hal David in anger. Warwick
had found out that Make It Easy on Yourself — a song on which she had
recorded the original demo and had wanted to be her first single release
— had been given to another artist, Jerry Butler. From the phrase
"don't make me over", Bacharach and David created their first top 40 pop
hit (#21) and a top 5 U.S. R&B hit. Warrick's name was
misspelled on the single's label, and she began using the new spelling
(i.e., "Warwick") both professionally and personally.
Dionne Warwick ~ Go With Lovereel-to-reel tape
photo by Styrous©
Warwick ranks among the 40 biggest hit makers of the entire rock era,
based on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Charts. Dionne Warwick is
second only to Aretha Franklin as the most-charted female vocalist of
all time with 56 of Dionne's singles making the Billboard Hot 100
between 1962 and 1998.
She was named the Bestselling Female Vocalist in the Cash Box Magazine Poll in 1964, with six chart hits in that year. Cash Box named her the Top Female Vocalist in 1969, 1970 and 1971. In the 1967 Cash Box Poll, she was second to Petula Clark, and in 1968's poll second to Aretha Franklin. Playboy's influential Music Poll of 1970 named her the Top Female Vocalist.
Warwick is an actress
and TV-show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the
Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of
Health.
Label: Columbia – DT2 5526
Series: Columbia Musical Treasuries –
Country: US
Released: 1970
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Soul
Tracklist:
Side 1:
1 - What The World Needs Now Is Love
2 - Walk On By
3 - The Beginning Of Loneliness
4 - Long Day, Short Night
5 - They Long To Be Close To You
6 - Another Night
7 - Don't Go Breaking My Heart
8 - How Can I Hurt You
9 - Are You There With Another Girl?
10 - Let Me Be Lonely
11 - Window Wishing
12 - Here Where There Is Love
Side 2:
1 - Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
2 - Go With Love
3 - Looking With My Eyes
4 - If I Ever Make You Cry
5 - Walkin' Backwards Down The Road
6 - How Many Days Of Sadness
7 - Windows Of The World
8 - As Long As There's An Apple Tree
9 - In Between The Heartaches
10 - Walk Little Dolly
11 - Is There Another Way To Love You
Series: Columbia Musical Treasuries –
Country: US
Released: 1970
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Soul
Tracklist:
Side 1:
1 - What The World Needs Now Is Love
2 - Walk On By
3 - The Beginning Of Loneliness
4 - Long Day, Short Night
5 - They Long To Be Close To You
6 - Another Night
7 - Don't Go Breaking My Heart
8 - How Can I Hurt You
9 - Are You There With Another Girl?
10 - Let Me Be Lonely
11 - Window Wishing
12 - Here Where There Is Love
Side 2:
1 - Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
2 - Go With Love
3 - Looking With My Eyes
4 - If I Ever Make You Cry
5 - Walkin' Backwards Down The Road
6 - How Many Days Of Sadness
7 - Windows Of The World
8 - As Long As There's An Apple Tree
9 - In Between The Heartaches
10 - Walk Little Dolly
11 - Is There Another Way To Love You
Links to music on YouTube:
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
Philip Glass - Mishima (NOTE: it has a VERY quiet intro & takes a few seconds to build)
Dionne Warwick ~ Go With Love reel-to-reel tape is for sale on Amazon
Philip Glass - Mishima (NOTE: it has a VERY quiet intro & takes a few seconds to build)
Dionne Warwick ~ Go With Love reel-to-reel tape is for sale on Amazon
reel-to-reel tapes on eBay
"The blues they send to meet me won't defeat me
It won't be long till happiness steps up to greet me"
- Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
It won't be long till happiness steps up to greet me"
- Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
