Dionne Warwick Trivia

1. According to the title track on Dionne Warwick's "Promises, Promises" album, "My kind of promises" do what?

From Quiz Promises, Promises

Answer: Lead to hope and joy and love

"Promises, promises, my kind of promises Can lead to hope and joy and love, yes, love!" Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote the score for the musical "Promises, Promises," book by Neil Simon. Dionne had a hit with another song from the show as well, "I'll Never Fall in Love Again," which was also recorded by Dionne's friends Richard and Karen Carpenter. Two of the red herrings are lines from "Promises, Promises" while the third is a reworking of a line from "I'll Never Fall in Love Again." Hal David's actual lyric reads: "What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia After you do, he'll never phone ya I'll never fall in love again"

From Quiz The Life and Music of Dionne Warwick

Answer: Burt Bacharach and Hal David

Dionne first met Burt Bacharach at a recording session in the Atlantic Records studios. He invited her to sing demos for some of his songs, co-written with his then new partner Hal David. She jumped at the chance and the rest, as they say, is history!

From Quiz Dionne Warwick

Answer: New Jersey

Dionne Warwick was born Marie Dionne Warrick and grew up in East Orange, New Jersey, not far from New York City. She demonstrated her vocal ability as a young girl- she sang gospel and r&b music in her neighborhood. Warrick eventually attracted the attention of producer Burt Bacharach who arranged to sign her to a recording contract. Warrick's name was misspelled "Warwick" on the record label of her first single, "Don't Make Me Over." After that, Dionne changed her professional name to Warwick.

From Quiz The Life and Music of Dionne Warwick

Answer: Warrick

Dionne became Dionne Warwick because of a label misprint on her first record. She tried to have the record pulled so the typo could be corrected, but it was selling so well it remained on the market and her name was never corrected. With the blessing of her parents, she publicly kept the "Warwick" name.

From Quiz Dionne Warwick

Answer: Walk on By

Dionne Warwick's first major international success occurred with the release of "Walk on By" in April 1964. This song remains one of the greatest break-up songs in pop music history. This song climbed to the number six position in the U.S. Hot 100 singles charts in 1964. "Anyone Who Had a Heart" was releaesed in 1963.

From Quiz Promises, Promises

Answer: It don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime/It don't snow in Minneapolis when the winter comes

"Little Green Apples" was written by Bobby Russell. Besides Dionne, the song has been recorded by artists as diverse as Bobby Goldsboro, Roger Miller, O.C. Little, Glen Campbell & Bobbie Gentry and Frank Sinatra.

From Quiz The Life and Music of Dionne Warwick

Answer: Over

The song was inspired because Dionne confronted Bacharach and David after they reneged on their informal promise to let her record "Make It Easy On Yourself", giving it to Jerry Butler instead. According to Dionne she angrily told them "Don't make me over!"

From Quiz Dionne Warwick

Answer: What dress to wear now

Dionne Warwick received her first Gold Record for sales of over a million singles for her efforts on "I Say a Little Prayer." The song was released in the fall of 1967 and reached the number four position in the U.S. singles charts. Warwick sings in a cheerful tone, "While combing my hair now / And wondering what dress to wear now / I say a little prayer for you..."

From Quiz Dionne Warwick

Answer: San Jose

"Do You Know the Way to San Jose" was a top ten hit in the U.S. singles charts for Dionne Warwick in 1968. The song's lyrics describe a young person from San Jose who has moved to Los Angeles in the hope of finding fame and fortune in Hollywood. Some of the memorable lines of the song are, "And all the stars that never were / Are parking cars and pumping gas..."

From Quiz The Life and Music of Dionne Warwick

Answer: Barry Manilow

"I'll Never Love This Way Again" peaked at number five on the Billboard Top 40 charts in 1979. The Manilow touch is easily identifiable in the recording, especially before the last chorus when there is a sudden stop followed by a strong drum beat and Dionne's powerful vocal.

From Quiz The Life and Music of Dionne Warwick

Answer: Then Came You

"Then Came You" reached number one on the Billboard charts in October 1974, knocking Billy Preston's "Nothing From Nothing" out of the top spot.

From Quiz Dionne Warwick

Answer: Hal David

Hal David, born in New York City, created special magic with composer Burt Bacharach in the 1960s and 1970s; the duo wrote dozens of pop music hit songs for artists such as Dionne Warwick, B. J. Thomas, Dusty Springfield and Jackie DeShannon. Hal David was also inducted into the Country Music Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984. Bernie Taupin is famous for his lyrical work with Elton John. Andy Williams and Robert Goulet were popular singers during the 1960s.

From Quiz Promises, Promises

Answer: Charity

"Sweet Charity" was written by CY Coleman and Dorothy Fields with book by Neil Simon. It tells the story of Charity Hope Valentine, a taxi dancer at the Fandango Ballroom in New York City, who finds and eventually loses the man of her dreams. Dionne sings "Where Am I Going?" in a plaintive, almost bewildered way that is very touching. Jerry Herman wrote "Hello Dolly." Carol Channing starred as the matchmaker, Dolly Levi, on Broadway while Barbara Streisand played her in the film adaptation. Elizabeth is the female third of the love triangle in Allan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe's "Paint Your Wagon," which is set in Gold Rush era California. The show was on Broadway in 1951 with Marijane Maricle originating the roll of Elizabeth. The 1969 film adaptation, starring Jean Seberg as Elizabeth opposite Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood, has a rather different storyline, in which Elizabeth is a Mormon woman who has two husbands. The 1967 spoof of silent movies, "Thoroughly Modern Millie" starring the sparkling Julie Andrews as Millie Dumount, who discovers it's better to be a nice, old fashioned girl than a modern, intersperses period songs from the 1910s and 1920s with original songs by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn. Not till some forty years after the release of the movie was it turned into a stage musical.

From Quiz The Life and Music of Dionne Warwick

Answer: New Jersey

Dionne was born in East Orange, New Jersey in 1940. She was raised in a family that was very involved with gospel and church music.

From Quiz Dionne Warwick

Answer: The Spinners

Dionne Warwick and The Spinners climbed all the way to the top spot in the U.S. singles charts with their song "Then Came You." The Spinners, from Detroit, used the lead vocal talents of Philippe Wynne and Bobby Smith to create several hit songs in the 1970s, including "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love." Warwick and The Spinners both achieved their first number hit song in the U.S. with "Then Came You." The chorus to the song reads, "I never knew love before, then came you."

From Quiz Promises, Promises

Answer: I can see

"Wanting Things" comes from the Bacharach/David musical "Promises, Promises".

From Quiz The Life and Music of Dionne Warwick

Answer: Whitney Houston

Cissy Houston was a backup singer for some of the top performers in music, including Elvis. Whitney passed away in 2012.

From Quiz Dionne Warwick

Answer: A Grammy Award

Dionne Warwick won the 1980 Grammy Award in the Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female, category for her song "I'll Never Love This Way Again." This tune reached the number five position in the U.S. singles charts in 1979. Warwick also won a 1980 Grammy Award for her vocal work in the song "Deja Vu"- Best R&B Performance, Female.

From Quiz Dionne Warwick

Answer: Arista

Dionne Warwick began her recording career in the 1960s with Scepter Records and then switched to the Warner Bros. label from 1972 to 1977. In 1979, she signed with Arista Records, a company founded by recording mogul Clive Davis in 1974. Davis also signed such singing stars as Aretha Franklin and a future superstar named Whitney Houston - Warwick's cousin. "Heartbreaker" became a top ten hit in more than a dozen countries around the world. The chorus reads, "Why do you have to be a heartbreaker? / When I was being what you want me to be / Suddenly everything I ever wanted / Has passed me by..."

From Quiz Promises, Promises

Answer: Yesterday

Mexican composer Armando Manzanero wrote the Spanish language song "Esta Tarde Vi Llover" and Canadian-American lyricist Gene Lees wrote the English lyrics. In 1968, the same year Dionne included the song on "Promises, Promises," Tony Bennett used "Yesterday I Heard the Rain" as the title track of the album he released that year. It is a Pop standard that has also been recorded by Shirley Bassey, Vikki Carr and Perry Como, among others.

From Quiz The Life and Music of Dionne Warwick

Answer: Alfie

"Alfie" only reached number 15 in the Spring of 1967, but she would break into the Top Ten again later that year with a song that became a signature song for her: "I Say A Little Prayer".

From Quiz Dionne Warwick

Answer: AIDS

Dionne Warwick teamed up with such noted singers as Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder to record the number one smash hit "That's What Friends Are For." Proceeds from the record went to the American Foundation for AIDS Research; reportedly, the foundation received more than $3 million from the song. Some of the lyrics read, "Keep smiling, keep shining / Knowing you can always count on me, for sure / That's what friends are for."

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