Playlist Very Best Of Dionne Warwick - Dionne Warwick CD

Playlist: The Very Best of Dionne Warwick is a career-spanning compilation, although theres only one song from her best decade (the 60s) and the focus is very much on her latter-day adult contemporary hits ("Friends Can Be Lovers," "Thats What Friends Are For"). The lone 60s track is "Dont Go Breaking My Heart" from 1965, with the majority of the material being a grab bag of 70s and 80s selections, including stray tracks and duets with the Spinners, Smokey Robinson, and Isaac Hayes, among others. As is usual with the Playlist series (ironically), theres little rhyme or reason to the selections, making this one of the lesser entries in Dionnes discography.Additional Info: The Playlist series of recordings by Sony/BMG is an attempt to repackage yet again an artist's hottest-selling recordings without jewel boxes in environmentally friendly packaging, adding some CD-ROM information and retailing them at a super cheap price. They sound OK, they usually have an artist's biggest selling songs, but they don't necessarily represent an artist very well unless, of course, that artist happens to be a singles hit machine. Martina McBride certainly is, and has been for nearly 20 years. In this case, virtually every hit single is included in this set save for one --and that omission is simply criminal. While "Independence Day," "This One's for the Girls," "It's My Time," and "Wild Angels" are all here -- some of them as remixed versions that are indeed rare -- the one glaring absentee from this set is the smash "Anyway." How this compilation's producers could omit this track is beyond reason. (Except maybe they still want to sell you the most recent album previous to this set.) Other than that it's solid, but most fans have all this stuff anyway. This one is worth staying away from on principle. ~ Thom Jurek

Specifics

• Album: Playlist Very Best Of Dionne Warwick
• Artist: Dionne Warwick
• Label: SONY SPECIAL MARKETING

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