![]() Various family members were singers in the group during its peak years, including Judy Clay and Dionne's aunt, Cissy Houston. Her mother, Lee Drinkard Warrick, was a member of gospel group The Drinkard Singers, based in Newark and most popular during the 1950s Lee was also the group's manager for a time. Her father, Mancel Warrick, had at one point been a promoter for the gospel division of Chess Records. Marie Dionne Warrick was exposed to music and the record business during her childhood in East Orange, New Jersey. Released near the end of 1962, the debut single hit the top 40 in early 1963 and the relationship of Warwick, Bacharach and David was off to a solid start. She realized the joke was on her and launched into a performance that transformed this good song into a brilliant one. When she returned at a later date, they presented her with "Don't Make Me Over," a romantically yearning piece quite different from the meaning Dionne had intended in the first place. Besides, that angry comment of hers had given them an idea for a song. She told Bacharach, "Don't make me over, man!" and stormed out of the building!īurt and Hal could have ended it right there, but Scepter Records owner Florence Greenberg had taken a liking to her and Bacharach was convinced this young singer he'd met some months earlier, wearing jeans and pigtails while doing backing vocals on a session he was producing for The Drifters, had something special. "Too late!" she was told it had been done by Jerry Butler and was already climbing the charts. ![]() Earlier, she had recorded a demo of their song "Make it Easy on Yourself." Certain it had hit potential, she wanted to run through it again and get it out as her first single. Take the case of what was to be her first official session with Burt Bacharach and Hal David. She had an attitude from the beginning that has ultimately worked in her favor. I suppose where great artists are concerned, temperament often comes with the territory. I'm sure that by now many of us have noticed what a demanding diva Dionne Warwick appears to be.
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