SOLID GOLD | Dionne Warwick sings, "Windows Of The World" | 1981 - Episode 47

[gooboo1000]

EXQUISITE SINGING.

[zainol2010]

Is it my imagination or did Dionne left out ' when men cannot be friends....'

[bibbi]

Dionne hair is awsome. It goes right along with that voice!!!!

[mbotman]

I would love to chat with you more about Dionne and your career. I hope you are

still in the business. I gave up pursuing a career in show business but still believe it is my real calling in life. Hope you are having a GREAT Memorial Day

weekend...God bless and keep smiling.

[bigeyezzzzzzz]

@mbotman Thanks for your very enthusiastic messages! I will send you a private message via YouTube's email service.....

[mbotman]

I cannot believe I have been talking with Michael Miller...I love the theme song

Michael! I've got the music somewhere in a songbook I purchased way back when

I was auditiioning for shows. In fact, Dionne opened with "Solid Gold" when she

came to Clowes Hall in '86. (Thanks for the perfume name.) I remember how wonderful she smelled, even from the front row. I also remember how beautiful her legs were!!! ( I know, I am really a fan).

[mbotman]

When I was studying vocal performance in college, it was my dream to host a show

like "Solid Gold" and perform with Dionne. I try to sing as much as her music as I can

because it is my favorite; particulary the Bacharach-David albums. She truly is a "Singer's singer." That will always be a major part of my life. Thanks for listening.

[mbotman]

It was great to hear you say you had worked with her on Solid Gold. In what capacity?

I met her once when she came to Indianapolis. I had my picture taken with her and

she was lovely. I sat in the front row to see her in 1986. After the show, she bent down and kissed me on the lips. I was 18 then. She smelled so good and I had her scent on me all that night!! Though it sounds funny, that was one of the best nights of my life.

[bigeyezzzzzzz]

@mbotman It's nice to hear about all of your admiration and enthusiasm for Dionne. She is really about as incredible as can be! I was the musical director and theme composer for Solid Gold for the entire run of the show. Oh, and that perfume that you were surrounded with in 1986 was Shalimar!

[mbotman]

Thanks bigeyezzzzzz. It saddens me to hear people speak ill of Dionne and others like her. Even someone today that I work with said, (though she did not mean to offend me) "Dionne cannot sing anymore. I guess they do not understand how great

she WAS. I know everyone has their "day", but people tend to forget that I guess.

How Dionne could go up and down and change melodies so effortlessly in her prime. There was no one like her.

[mbotman]

Wasn't Dionne beautiful? I was 14 then and loved her then as I do now. When I have heard her sing this in concert...you can tell it is her favorite. Such poignant lyrics. She has always said Hal David wrote lyrics from the heart. Such a tragedy about Harry Chapin..I did not know he had died like that. He was another example of poetry set to music. Thanks for posting these segments. I love them dearly....always will!

[bigeyezzzzzzz]

@mbotman You're very welcome. It was an incredible time in my life to have worked with Dionne through her Solid Gold years. What a beautiful person she was - and is - in all ways.

[BigBlueBeast]

Why can't Dionne Warwick sing like that today?

[Oyving]

I was in the audience for the pilot of this show.. It was horribly lip-synced!

[bigeyezzzzzzz]

@Oyving FYI: Dionne never lip-synced on the show. The band tracks were prerecorded, but the vocals were always live.

[jasoncolannino]

This was Harry's last TV appearance . He died in a car accident a few weeks after taping this episode, and it aired after hid death

[Nikray]

I have forgotten that so many of SG's guest hosts were actually friends of Dionne.

[DionnesDiscography]

Love you M! Thanks so much for this gorgeous clip of Lady D.