Dee Dee Warwick Biography
1945, New Jersey, USA. Warwick has always sung in the shadow of her older sister, Dionne Warwick, but she has created a body of work that holds up well decades later. Her first record on the Jubilee label, "You're No Good", was superseded by the much superior production done in Chicago by Vee Jay on Betty Everett. In 1964 Warwick signed with Mercury Records' Blue Rock subsidiary and, with production handled by Ed Townsend, recorded a spate of finely crafted songs, notably "We're Doing Fine" (number 28 R&B). After switching to the parent label in 1966 she reached the charts with "I Want To Be With You" (number 9 R&B, number 41 pop), which was taken from the Broadway musical Golden Boy, and "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" (number 13 R&B, number 88 pop), which was remade the following year with much greater success in the pop market by Madelaine Bell and much later by a united Supremes/Temptations group. Warwick moved to Atco Records in 1970 and was produced in Miami by Dave Crawford, achieving chart success with "She Didn't Know (She Kept On Talking)" (number 9 R&B, number 70 pop) and a remake of "Suspicious Minds" (number 24 R&B, number 80 pop). "Get Out Of My Life" was her last chart record in 1975.
Source: The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin. Licensed from Muze.
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