Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls

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Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls
R&B
LabelScepter
ProducerBurt Bacharach, Hal David
Dionne Warwick chronology
The Magic of Believing
(1968) 		Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls
(1968) 		Promises, Promises
(1968)
Singles from Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls
  1. "(Theme from) Valley of the Dolls"
    Released: October 1967
  2. "Do You Know the Way to San Jose"
    Released: April 1968
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic
[1]

Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls is the title of

A&R and Bell Sound Studios in New York City and was produced by Burt Bacharach and Hal David
.

History

The album's lead single was the title track, "

20th Century Records
.

Warwick was only permitted to appear on the film's actual soundtrack and not the soundtrack album recording. The Dionne Warwick single peaked at #2 on the

Cash Box
and #1 on the Record World charts during the spring of 1968. The LP was issued as number 568 in the Scepter Catalog. The cover art for this LP features Warwick on a black background, in an evening gown next to a director’s chair.

The LP would then yield Warwick's next big hit and first

Grammy Award winner, "Do You Know the Way to San Jose". The song, (which Warwick didn't initially like, according to Robin Platts in the book, Burt Bacharach & Hal David[2]) would peak at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and become one of Warwick's signature songs. "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" also became one of Warwick's biggest international hits, selling over 3,500,000 copies. Other notable songs on the LP were "Silent Voices" (which under its original Italian title, "La Voce Del Silenzio", had been Warwick's entry into the 1968 San Remo Song Festival), "Walking Backwards Down the Road", "Up, Up, and Away", and "You're My World" — another Italian song (written by Umberto Bindi, famous Genoa's songwriter) the latter having been a British #1 hit for Cilla Black, and "Let Me Be Lonely", the B side of the single "Do You Know the Way to San Jose", which charted on Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart, becoming one of several double sided hits for Warwick during the 1960s. The album became an RIAA-certified gold record and peaked at #6 on the Billboard 200 album chart, #2 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart and #10 on the UK Albums Chart
; the album would remain on the Billboard 200 for over a year and remains her highest-charting album on the chart. Rhino Records reissued the album on compact disc in 2004, combined with Windows of the World.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, except where noted

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."As Long as There's an Apple Tree" 2:05
2."Up, Up and Away"Jimmy Webb2:38
3."You're My World"Carl Sigman, Umberto Bindi3:05
4."(Theme from) Valley of the Dolls"André Previn, Dory Previn3:35
5."Silent Voices"Norman Monath, Paolo Limiti, Mogol, Elio Isola3:07
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Do You Know the Way to San Jose" 2:50
7."For the Rest of My Life"Mann Curtis, Flavio Carraresi3:07
8."Let Me Be Lonely" 3:35
9."Where Would I Go" 2:40
10."Walking Backwards Down the Road" 2:54

Personnel

  • Manny Albam – arranger, conductor
  • Burt Bacharach – arranger, conductor, producer
  • Hal David – arranger, producer
  • Peter Matz – arranger
  • Phil Ramone – engineer
  • Garry Sherman – arranger, conductor
  • Ed Smith – engineer
  • Dionne Warwick – vocals
  • Pat Williams – arranger

References

  1. AllMusic
    . Retrieved 29 August 2011.
  2. ISBN 1-896522-77-7

External links
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