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Great injustice to Dionne Warwick!

J. Thng | Singapore | 03/29/2001

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Being a very late collector of the wonderful and terribly underrated Dionne Warwick, I missed buying many of her wonderful albums released on CDs in particular all her Warner Brothers albums and some of the early Arista releases. When I saw the tracking listing on this CD, I jumped at the purchase simply because it has almost all of the rare tracks from her unreleased (on CD) Warner album - JUST BEING MYSELF. Big, big mistake! Almost all the songs are altered here with cheap synthesisers in a weak attempt to "modernise" her earlier works. Her voice is almost drowned by the terrible arrangements by Goodness Know Who). Why on earth would you layer over these early works where Burt Bacharch and Hal David's immaculate production and the wonderful interpretation by Dionne makes all her early work at Scepter and Warner so special. Packaging is terrible, no track information of writers, producers, whatever. All the original songs on this CD were actually very very good. But here someone just did a great injustice to Ms Warwick.If you want good compilation of Dionne's work, get the recent THE VERY BEST OF DIONNE WARWICK - which features her early work of Burt/David at Scepter records. For more recent 80s music, go for her GREATEST HITS 1979 - 1990. For a flavour of 60s to 80s music go for her wonderfully mastered Arista DEFINITIVE COLLECTION. These 3 albums are enough for anyone who want good quality sound and first rate music. And if you want new arrangements of her early 60s works, go for her DIONNE SINGS DIONNE 1 & 2. These 2 CDs are really hidden gems. As for this CD, AVOID!!"

DON'T BE DECEIVED

J. Thng | 04/12/2001

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Don't be deceived by the professional looking cover and artwork; this CD is horrible. Something has been done to the original versions and they obviously sound different from what you or I would have heard. Then there are the other unknown songs (remember that the title of the CD is "Most Famous Hits") that are littered here and there, then there is the sound quality that leaves a lot to be desired and then, there are some of the songs that have obviously been selected from a live performance. Heard enough?"

AVOID!

J. Hamilton | Western PA, USA | 11/16/2002

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Not only have they layered cheezy, low-budget synths over the tracks, they've done an unimaginably terrible job of it. It sounds as if the synth was playing in one room and the original recording was playing in another - and a warped vinyl copy at that. This was someone's bad idea of a joke. Do not pay anything for this.... Burt needs to sue somebody."