Just Being Myself
Just Being Myself | ||||
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Studio album by Dionne Warwick | ||||
Released | 1973 | |||
Studio | HDH Sound Studios, Detroit | |||
Length | 33:33 | |||
Label | Warner Bros. | |||
Producer | Holland-Dozier-Holland | |||
Dionne Warwick chronology | ||||
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Singles from Dionne | ||||
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Just Being Myself is a studio album by American singer Dionne Warwick. It was released by Warner Bros. Records in 1973 in the United States. Her second album with the label, Just Being Myself marked a departure for Warwick who teamed up with Holland-Dozier-Holland to work on the majority of the album after her regular collaborators Burt Bacharach and Hal David had split the year before. The album peaked at number 178 on the US Billboard 200.[1]
Critical reception
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [2] |
AllMusic editor Tim Sendra wrote that "the album's title is somewhat ironic because Holland, Dozier and Holland removed Warwick from the creative process, basically asking her to record her vocals over previously recorded backing tracks. Not that most of what they came up with was too far from what she had been recording before since the bulk of the record is made up of lush, orchestrated ballads [...] Just Being Myself is a very interesting and successful record that shows Warwick could be a convincing soul singer and despite her qualms, could succeed, artistically anyway."[2]
Track listing
All tracks produced Holland-Dozier-Holland.[3]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "You're Gonna Need Me" |
| 4:20 |
2. | "I Think You Need Love" |
| 3:37 |
3. | "You Are the Heart of Me" |
| 4:14 |
4. | "I Always Get Caught in the Rain" |
| 3:42 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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5. | "Don't Let My Teardrops Bother You" |
| 4:00 |
6. | "(I'm) Just Being Myself" |
| 4:31 |
7. | "Come Back" |
| 4:30 |
8. | "Don't Burn the Bridge (That Took You Across)" |
| 4:24 |
Personnel and credits
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Just Being Myself.[4]
- McKinley Jackson – arrangements
- Jerry Hall – recording, mixing
- Brian Holland – recording, mixing
- Lawrence Horn – recording, mixing
- Gene Page – arrangements
- Ed Thrasher – photography
- Barney Perkins – recording, mixing
- Dionne Warwick – vocals
Charts
Chart (1973) | Peak position |
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US Billboard 200[1] | 178 |
References
- ^ a b "Dionne Warwick Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
- ^ a b Sendra, Tim. "Just Being Myself > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
- ^ Just Being Myself (booklet). Dionne Warwick. Warner Bros. Records. 1973.
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- Anyone Who Had a Heart (1964)
- Make Way for Dionne Warwick (1964)
- The Sensitive Sound of Dionne Warwick (1965)
- Here I Am (1965)
- Here Where There Is Love (1966)
- On Stage and in the Movies (1967)
- The Windows of the World (1967)
- Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls (1968)
- The Magic of Believing (1968)
- Promises, Promises (1968)
- Soulful (1969)
- I'll Never Fall in Love Again (1970)
- Very Dionne (1970)
- Dionne (1972)
- Just Being Myself (1973)
- Then Came You (1975)
- Track of the Cat (1975)
- Love at First Sight (1977)
- Dionne (1979)
- No Night So Long (1980)
- Friends in Love (1982)
- Heartbreaker (1982)
- How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye (1983)
- Finder of Lost Loves (1985)
- Friends (1985)
- Reservations for Two (1987)
- Dionne Warwick Sings Cole Porter (1990)
- Friends Can Be Lovers (1993)
- Aquarela do Brasil (1994)
- My Favorite Time of the Year (2004)
- My Friends & Me (2006)
- Why We Sing (2008)
- Only Trust Your Heart (2011)
- Now (2012)
- She's Back (2019)
- Dionne Warwick & the Voices of Christmas (2019)
- Dionne Warwick in Paris (1966)
- Hot! Live and Otherwise (1981)
- Christmas in Vienna II (1993)
- Greatest Hits: 1979–1990 (1989)
- The Love Collection (2008)
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- "Anyone Who Had a Heart"
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- "Then Came You"
- "By the Time I Get to Phoenix
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- "I'll Never Love This Way Again"
- "Déjà Vu"
- "After You"
- "No Night So Long"
- "Easy Love"
- "Now We're Starting Over Again"
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- "How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye"
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