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| Dionne Warwick Do You Know the Way to San Jose 1968 Top 10 |
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Dionne Warwick's 1968 million selling Grammy
winning international smash hit the top ten
in May 1968 and was also a UK smash at #8.
The flip side "Let Me Be Lonely" also written
by Bacharach and David also hit the Billboard
Hot 100, one of many double sided hits Dionne
recorded on Florence Greenberg's Scepter
label. Dionne charted an astonishing eight
Billboard Top Twenty hits in less than 30
months: Alfie-#15 July 67; I Say A Little
Prayer-Nov 67-#4; Theme From Valley of the
Dolls-Feb 68-#2 (4 weeks); Do You Know the
Way to San Jose-May 68-#10; Promises,
Promises-Oct 1968-#19; This Girl's In Love
With You-March 1969-#7; You've Lost That
Lovin' Feeling-#15-Sept 69; I'll Never Fall
In Love Again-Jan 70-#6. In addition, Warwick
hit the Top 40 in the same time period with
Windows of the World-Sept 67, Who Is Gonna
Love Me-July 68, and The April Fools-July 69.
In 1969 Dionne was the first African-American
Female Vocalist to win in the Grammy category
Best Contemporary-Pop Vocal Performance,
Female for Do You Know the Way to San Jose.
"San Jose" was also used as the theme in
Dodge automobile commercials in 1968 and
1969, for the Charger and the Challenger.
"Do You Know the Way to San Jose" became
"Dodge Is Turning Up the Fever Now"! Another
note of trivia: the background vocalists for
this session were Valerie Simpson (Ashford &
Simpson), Cissy Houston and DeeDee Warwick.
Writes Nick Tosches, the renowned writer,
music journalist, novelist, biographer and
poet in the January 7, 1972 issue of the rock
magazine FUSION; "...getting into Dionne
Warwick is like finding buried treasure. The
Bacharach/David repertoire which milady
chooses to sing is so fascinatingly cynical /
fatalistic / stoical / emotional / happy,
simultaneously! It's pure emotion. There is a
whole lot more to emotion than some rock punk
bursting his dexedrine-staved blood vessels
by screaming "Baby I need you baby" into a
microphone. Dionne Warwick is not a rock and
roll singer. She's not a jazz singer either.
Rhythm and blues? Nope. A pop singer? No way.
Did you ever tongue-kiss with someone who
barfed a Singapore Sling bolus into your
mouth, and then four years later you're with
someone else and you feel good and you
realize how beautiful it all was and then
it's all melancholy/happiness, sort of?
That's the kind of singer Dionne Warwick is.
She's beautiful. Dionne, paired with
Bacharach's string/horn/reed arrangements,
comes up as a lyric mezzo-sopranoid
par-excellence,
melodious/expressiveness-wise. If you've
never gotten into her, you ought to. Get hep
to Dionne Warwick. For your own sake."
Tags : Dionne Warwick oldies Do You Know Way San Jose Burt Bacharach Hal David Grammy UK 1968 Dodge Challenger RRHOF Old School |
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| Detrás de los medios - San José de Apartadó / 1de3 |
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Por el prisma de los medios se filtra la
manera cómo vemos y enfrentamos el conflicto
social y político que padecemos como
sociedad.
Detrás de los Medios es un reporte del
seguimiento al cubrimiento realizado por los
medios masivos de comunicación a realidades
que atañen, de manera directa, la vida de
los procesos comunitarios y de resistencia
civil de las comunidades campesinas en
Colombia.
El primer capítulo de esta serie analiza la
manera como fue presentada por los medios
audiovisuales la masacre ocurrida el 21 de
febrero de 2005 en la Comunidad de Paz de San
José de Apartadó.
Una realización del:
Observatorio Audiovisual e Investigativo
sobre Procesos Comunitarios y de Resistencia.
ÁREA DE COMUNICACIONES - ASOCIACIÓN
CAMPESINA DE ANTIOQUIA
Tags : san jose de apartado medios poder antioquia derechos humanos commentary analysis documentary |
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Affichage : 9854
Durée : 654 s |
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