"That's What Friends are For," the main draw of Dionne Warwick's thirty-third album, is the kind of refreshing, multi-chart hit that surfaces about once a year. Its honest, well-meaning clichés and uncluttered vocal exchanges between Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Elton John and Gladys Knight, sung...
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Starting out in the very early '60s with the Gospel-aires -- a quintet whose superabundance of talent included her aunt Cissy Houston, sister Dee Dee, and their friend Doris Troy -- Dionne Warwick caught the attention of composer Burt Bacharach. With Warwick, the ace songwriting team of Bacharach and Hal David found their perfect vehicle, and the trio went on to make pop hits whose crafty comple...
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