Dionne is an self-titled album by Dionne Warwick, released in January 1972 on the Warner Bros. Records label. It is her first album on the record company, fruit of a $5 million contract after left the family atmosphere of Scepter Records, being the most lucrative recording contract ever given to a female vocalist up to that time, according to Variety. From there, she was beginned to record songs on A&R Studios, on NYC in late 1971. Despite being an album with her longtime collaborators Bacharach and David as writers and producers, the LP found low sales and peaked at #57 in the Billboard 200.
After another failure of the duo in creating the soundtrack for the film Long Horizon, they decided to end their working relationship, leaving Warwick devoid of their services as her producers/songwriters and obliged to comply with her contract by releasing new records, ending up being six years releasing albums of bad results in the music charts; this only end when she sign with Arista Records in 1979 and releasing a successful album, which it was also self-titled.
This User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; Source: Last.fm.