Dionne is so criminally overlooked and under appreciated as a vocalist. She’s a real master and her musicality is insane. Truly one of the best voices! An absolute legend
@@jmh721 she is because she sang pop...early in her career they didnt want to put a face with her records so that they could sell it. She didnt perform for black audiences and wasnt on R&B stations. Her music was also very difficult and complex and not for the common "black" audience the way Motown artists, Aretha, Gladys, and other black acts of the times were going in the 60s and 70s. Lastly, Dionne Warwick wasnt signed to a label early on, she was signed to Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Because of Bacharach and David being signed to the label Scepter, the label could do what they wanted to do with the songs Dionne sang and they would end up with other artists to simplify and water them down and turn them into #1 hits.
In other words. Dionne's singing was over psople's heads, not the genre of black folks, and the pop audience had crowned Barbara Streisand and Karen Carpenter as their pop divas of the time. Unfortunately, it will take music historians and analysts to fully give Dionne Warwick her just due, probably when she is no longer with us sadly.
I think Whitney Houston did the same thing because they told her to not sing so "black" I think eventually she told them off and that's why her life performances are off the hook.
@@Mntman1031 Whitney's studio recordings are still very advanced tbh. Didn't We Almost Have It All, You're Still My Man, So Emotional, I'm Every Woman, I'm Your Baby Tonight, All The Man That I Need aren't holding back or "playing it safe" recordings at all.
Many of her early studio recordings have very intricate compositions that are difficult to sing. Dionne had years as a demo and background singer while finishing her undergrad degree in music education before she started recording. It’s her craftsmanship that makes it sound like “she’s playing it safe,” when in fact she was performing high level vocal gymnastics on difficult routines
No, all Ms. Dionne's recordings throughout the years were never safe nor easy. She just was that skilled to make them appear easy. Yes, she kept it somewhat mild on her recordings for marketing purposes. However, her mildness is so different and more difficult to sing compared to her peers recordings because her recordings required so much more vocal details and intricacies and musicality. She just made it sound and appear easy. She is just that great!!
Her influences are Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Lena Horne, and Diahann Carrol. These people literally worked with her. Showed her the ropes when she was a young artist. Actress/ singer Marlene Dietrich also mentored her in France helping to get her career and started in Europe and introduced her to high fashion.
Ms. Dionne Warwick is no joke with her ease and poise and power and resonance and sustainability are timeless..... and a legendary lady through it all. No wonder where and how Whitney got her isms as a performer and singer along with her mother Miss Cissy! Brava Ms. Dionne!
Ms. Iconic Dionne vocals are pure plantinum!! She is the Pioneer! Her voice transitions smoothly and with ease thru all vocal registers, riff, runs, soft, strong belts, impecaable phrasing, sustained long notes while weaving thru different pitches, subperb breath control, mic far from mouth yet her projection is evenly distributed. Her musicality and vocal ability are completely even, meaning all the vocal skills that she has none are compromised or one being better over the other. It is all equally great! Just pure class, elegance with an amazingly unique vocal style. She is the best of the best period❤.
Dionne is one of the best to ever do it!!! Glad she’s been getting her flowers the last few years with The Kennedy Center Honors and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
Complete mastery of her instrument! And a well balanced voice. And its true according to rickey minor, Whitney would warm up with dionnes songs in rehearsal when they were gonna record ballads to have her voice in that mode
She Always Called Whitney "The Daughter She Never Had" .... She Had Whitney Travel With Her & Taught Whitney Stage Presence, How To Talk During Interviews & How To Perform... She Definitely Was The Teacher & Whitney was The Student
Thank you for reacting to this one. I was the one requesting you to do this one because I knew you would love it!. I love your reaction with Ms. Dionne. It is so much different from the others that you react to, lol. You look so in disbelief and surprised. Your favorite words are "I had no Idea"..😂😂 and sustain" 😂😂😂I believe secretly she has become your favorite vocalist now, lol. Man, your reactions to her performances say it all. You are so funny and engaging at the same time. Thank you so much for continuing to show recognition of her great artistry.
SHE IS THE ORIGINAL IT GIRL AND SHE COULD SANG ANYTHING! Her vocal prowess is so underrated and LISTEN TO ALL IS FAIR IN LOVE! She is a blueprint level singer!!!
Dionne is unique too in being a trained musician, can play piano/organ and sight read music. Her early songs written for her had difficult changes in octaves and fluctuating measures throughout, but she had them seem easy. Only Aretha had more charted hits than Dionne, who also won Grammys in both pop and R&B. Luther Vandross counted her as his musical inspiration and covered many of her songs, did duets w/ her and had hit (Here and Now) written by one of her sons. Whitney clearly learned much from her older cousin. In the 80s she hosted a weekly musical show and could sing with anyone, including dozens of legends who came on the show to sing with her.
But this is how I fell in love with Dion I used to take her singing for a joke so I really listen to it one day and I feel Head Over Heels in love with Dionne Warwick
All Ms Dionne's most powerful performances was of her underrated songs. I would like a reaction on her solo performance of "All the time" in 2023 in the green/blue outfit as a type of "Dionne years later" type of video.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I’ve been begging, and waiting for you to react to this particular video!!! Btw: where did you find this clip? I know UA-cam took the good version down.
I’m convinced that Dionne birth Whitney. No disrespect to Mrs. Houston. Either that or she really studied her cousin to the T. The entire family is musically blessed.
As a side note, After You was originally recorded by Cissy Houston. Would love to see a reaction of Dionne singing 'Alfie' at the 1967 Academy Awards. It's one of the most elegant vocal performances I've ever seen and many credit this appearance with boosting Dionne's career to highest heights. ua-cam.com/video/FFNXnd0cPb8/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
She could sing those songs but she wouldn’t do it like Dionne because she has her own intricacies that Whitney doesn’t have. The same is true the other way, Dionne could probably sing some of her Whitney’s biggest hits but she’d sing them in her way.
@ I thought B was still auditioning on Broadway in the early 60’s. Could be wrong but as for television presence Dionne was already a star. I remember her on TV and how electrifying she was. Burt Bacharach made sure she was everywhere.
Please react to No One Mourns The Wicked by Ariana Grande from the Wicked Soundtrack!! I think you’ll be impressed by how operatic and magical her voice sounds!!! ✨✨
Can you please react to Bebe Rexha I’m Good Live Billboard Awards 2023 ! She slowed the song down & made into an Orchestral Version & her vocals are killer & out of this world in the performance!🔥 ua-cam.com/video/rwYP6OdXujc/v-deo.htmlsi=J5TZ123ZNQCXK-P4
Hey Bro, do this one by Ms. Dionne singing Aretha's Daydreaming. She kills it in just all in over 2 minutes while i think she was pregnant! ua-cam.com/video/o7G4tlpslFk/v-deo.htmlsi=1-FA_Sp8uKS7nSme
Dionne is so criminally overlooked and under appreciated as a vocalist. She’s a real master and her musicality is insane. Truly one of the best voices! An absolute legend
The best voice for me, period!!❤❤❤
@@singingmanmdthe best. I'm giving her the best vocalist of the 20th century.
How is she criminally overlooked and be a legend?🙄
@@jmh721 she is because she sang pop...early in her career they didnt want to put a face with her records so that they could sell it. She didnt perform for black audiences and wasnt on R&B stations. Her music was also very difficult and complex and not for the common "black" audience the way Motown artists, Aretha, Gladys, and other black acts of the times were going in the 60s and 70s. Lastly, Dionne Warwick wasnt signed to a label early on, she was signed to Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Because of Bacharach and David being signed to the label Scepter, the label could do what they wanted to do with the songs Dionne sang and they would end up with other artists to simplify and water them down and turn them into #1 hits.
In other words. Dionne's singing was over psople's heads, not the genre of black folks, and the pop audience had crowned Barbara Streisand and Karen Carpenter as their pop divas of the time. Unfortunately, it will take music historians and analysts to fully give Dionne Warwick her just due, probably when she is no longer with us sadly.
And for the people in the back; Ms. Warwick Is A Smoker. she may not be NOW, but she did indeed smoke. And STILL performed LIKE THAT!!!!
She really played it safe on her studio recordings, cause her live performances were phenomenal 🔥
I think Whitney Houston did the same thing because they told her to not sing so "black"
I think eventually she told them off and that's why her life performances are off the hook.
@@Mntman1031 Whitney's studio recordings are still very advanced tbh. Didn't We Almost Have It All, You're Still My Man, So Emotional, I'm Every Woman, I'm Your Baby Tonight, All The Man That I Need aren't holding back or "playing it safe" recordings at all.
Many of her early studio recordings have very intricate compositions that are difficult to sing. Dionne had years as a demo and background singer while finishing her undergrad degree in music education before she started recording. It’s her craftsmanship that makes it sound like “she’s playing it safe,” when in fact she was performing high level vocal gymnastics on difficult routines
No, all Ms. Dionne's recordings throughout the years were never safe nor easy. She just was that skilled to make them appear easy. Yes, she kept it somewhat mild on her recordings for marketing purposes. However, her mildness is so different and more difficult to sing compared to her peers recordings because her recordings required so much more vocal details and intricacies and musicality. She just made it sound and appear easy. She is just that great!!
@@Sttephy30yes but many times pales in comparison to her live performances
Dionne Warwick is amazing! I can't get enough of watching her live performances from over the years. She never ever breaks a sweat or looks winded!
Her influences are Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Lena Horne, and Diahann Carrol. These people literally worked with her. Showed her the ropes when she was a young artist. Actress/ singer Marlene Dietrich also mentored her in France helping to get her career and started in Europe and introduced her to high fashion.
Dionne is underrated as a vocalist. Her voice is so unique and distinctive. Simply a class act.
Ms. Dionne Warwick is no joke with her ease and poise and power and resonance and sustainability are timeless..... and a legendary lady through it all. No wonder where and how Whitney got her isms as a performer and singer along with her mother Miss Cissy! Brava Ms. Dionne!
Amen!!!!!❤❤❤❤
Never be another Ms. Great Dionne
I’ve been waiting years for this. Those sustained notes are NO joke.
I've been watching Dionne Warwick videos and interviews for the past few days. Best vocalist of the 20th century.
Love "After You"! Her velvet texture in her voice!
I'm shook.😂❤
This has to be my TOP 5 DW performances of all time. She killed that performance!!!
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Ms. Iconic Dionne vocals are pure plantinum!! She is the Pioneer! Her voice transitions smoothly and with ease thru all vocal registers, riff, runs, soft, strong belts, impecaable phrasing, sustained long notes while weaving thru different pitches, subperb breath control, mic far from mouth yet her projection is evenly distributed. Her musicality and vocal ability are completely even, meaning all the vocal skills that she has none are compromised or one being better over the other. It is all equally great! Just pure class, elegance with an amazingly unique vocal style. She is the best of the best period❤.
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Dionne is one of the best to ever do it!!! Glad she’s been getting her flowers the last few years with The Kennedy Center Honors and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
She is the best to ever do it for me❤
Complete mastery of her instrument! And a well balanced voice. And its true according to rickey minor, Whitney would warm up with dionnes songs in rehearsal when they were gonna record ballads to have her voice in that mode
I believe all of it!!❤
Dionne Warwick ❤❤❤❤
She Always Called Whitney "The Daughter She Never Had" .... She Had Whitney Travel With Her & Taught Whitney Stage Presence, How To Talk During Interviews & How To Perform...
She Definitely Was The Teacher & Whitney was The Student
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Barabara Streisand was her contemporary. The both released their first albums around the same time. Dionne is 2 years older.
Thank you for reacting to this one. I was the one requesting you to do this one because I knew you would love it!. I love your reaction with Ms. Dionne. It is so much different from the others that you react to, lol. You look so in disbelief and surprised. Your favorite words are "I had no Idea"..😂😂 and sustain" 😂😂😂I believe secretly she has become your favorite vocalist now, lol. Man, your reactions to her performances say it all. You are so funny and engaging at the same time. Thank you so much for continuing to show recognition of her great artistry.
Dionne Walk(ed) on By so Whitney could Run to You 👏❤🔥🌟🤩
SHE IS THE ORIGINAL IT GIRL AND SHE COULD SANG ANYTHING! Her vocal prowess is so underrated and LISTEN TO ALL IS FAIR IN LOVE! She is a blueprint level singer!!!
Dionne is unique too in being a trained musician, can play piano/organ and sight read music. Her early songs written for her had difficult changes in octaves and fluctuating measures throughout, but she had them seem easy. Only Aretha had more charted hits than Dionne, who also won Grammys in both pop and R&B. Luther Vandross counted her as his musical inspiration and covered many of her songs, did duets w/ her and had hit (Here and Now) written by one of her sons. Whitney clearly learned much from her older cousin. In the 80s she hosted a weekly musical show and could sing with anyone, including dozens of legends who came on the show to sing with her.
She's a beast especially on live performances, covering all part of the music spectrum, not holding back 🎉❤💯🎇✨
I honestly feel that in her prime, she was just as good as Whitney, if not better...Dionne is a Class Act❤
@davielove And no if. Ms. Dionne is miles better!! U got it right❤ That's where Whitney learned from.
And you would be wrong, Whitney took the best from Dionne and her mother and became something totally untouchable.
Hi She look like she can be your Family
THAT'S MISS DIONNE WARWICK!!!! You CANNOT be surprised! IT'S CALLED TALENT!!
But this is how I fell in love with Dion I used to take her singing for a joke so I really listen to it one day and I feel Head Over Heels in love with Dionne Warwick
Okay, I Never knew Dionne sang like that. Go head! It explains why she's comfortable throwing shade, at times.
Whitney traveled a lot with Dionne when she was a young girl. She said always took her on the road with her.
Have you ever reacted to Dionne, Patty and Gladys singing “Superwoman” on Oprah?
The overtones in her belt....my goodness
dionne is really Thee Pop girl
The all around girl. You ask me❤❤.
All Ms Dionne's most powerful performances was of her underrated songs. I would like a reaction on her solo performance of "All the time" in 2023 in the green/blue outfit as a type of "Dionne years later" type of video.
I saw that and it's beautiful!! She did that!!
People don’t hold notes that powerful anymore
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I’ve been begging, and waiting for you to react to this particular video!!!
Btw: where did you find this clip? I know UA-cam took the good version down.
I’m convinced that Dionne birth Whitney. No disrespect to Mrs. Houston. Either that or she really studied her cousin to the T. The entire family is musically blessed.
Yes Whitney speaks like Dionne! Dionne said Whitney was the daughter she never had. Also Whitney went on tour with Dionne when she was like 12 or so
As a side note, After You was originally recorded by Cissy Houston.
Would love to see a reaction of Dionne singing 'Alfie' at the 1967 Academy Awards. It's one of the most elegant vocal performances I've ever seen and many credit this appearance with boosting Dionne's career to highest heights. ua-cam.com/video/FFNXnd0cPb8/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
yes they came from the same era.
Hi, Adam! Please check what is causing the video to be louder in one side than the other when using headphones.
Song was released in 1979
No shade but I don't even think Whitney could do that.
That was one of the baddest live performances I've ever seen in my entire life.
Then go back and look again
She could sing those songs but she wouldn’t do it like Dionne because she has her own intricacies that Whitney doesn’t have. The same is true the other way, Dionne could probably sing some of her Whitney’s biggest hits but she’d sing them in her way.
Dionne was slightly before Streisand in the 60’s. Barbs did not become well known until the mid 60’s.
I think Dionne came out in 1962, Barbra in 61 so pretty much at the same time
@ I thought B was still auditioning on Broadway in the early 60’s. Could be wrong but as for television presence Dionne was already a star. I remember her on TV and how electrifying she was. Burt Bacharach made sure she was everywhere.
@@ScottPothan Barbra had 3 gold albums before she did funny girl. she also did a Broadway play in 1962 which got her a Tony nom she was well known
@ thanks I did not know this precisely. Raised in Sydney so our view was a little skewed. We didnt know of Barbra until Funny Girl.
please react to I'LL NEVER LOVE THIS WAS AGAIN version of JONA! she's one of the best vocalist there is in ASIA, you must check her powerful vocals
You should do the song any guy by Cissy Houston
I noticed that they actually just cut into the next part... ua-cam.com/video/UkqIEiZVQWg/v-deo.htmlsi=1vKw5PgiB2R-qnVn
Please react to No One Mourns The Wicked by Ariana Grande from the Wicked Soundtrack!! I think you’ll be impressed by how operatic and magical her voice sounds!!! ✨✨
If you love Dionne’s sustained notes you’ll love this! ua-cam.com/video/i7ocdLbvdyg/v-deo.htmlsi=AZ0JkZf-8v7sAJOm
Please react to "Whitney Houston - He/I Believe (Live from Sanctuary Cove, 1988)".
Please react to new performance of "he/i believe (sanctuary cove 1988)"
React to Whitneys medley tribute to Dionne
And smoked cigarettes throughout her career
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Can you please react to Bebe Rexha I’m Good Live Billboard Awards 2023 ! She slowed the song down & made into an Orchestral Version & her vocals are killer & out of this world in the performance!🔥 ua-cam.com/video/rwYP6OdXujc/v-deo.htmlsi=J5TZ123ZNQCXK-P4
Hey Bro, do this one by Ms. Dionne singing Aretha's Daydreaming. She kills it in just all in over 2 minutes while i think she was pregnant!
ua-cam.com/video/o7G4tlpslFk/v-deo.htmlsi=1-FA_Sp8uKS7nSme