"The Complete Atco Recordings" by DEE DEE WARWICK – Including Her Third Studio Album "Turning Around" from 1970 on Atco Records in Full, Single Sides and Posthumous Rarities (July 2014 USA Real Gone Music 2CD Compilation of Remasters) - A Review by Mark Barry...

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"…You Tore My Wall Down..."

To my knowledge and outside of expensive imports and bad-sounding sources - Dee Dee Warwick (younger sister of Dionne and cousin to Whitney Houston) has seen only snatches of her stay at Atlantic Records 'Atco' label made available on CD - until now that is.

This superb all-encompassing American 2CD compilation by newcomers Real Gone Music (in conjunction with Rhino) is a welcome haul. Included amongst its 35-tracks are 5 non-LP 7" single sides, her whole 10-song album "Turning Around" from 1970, 8 further rarities from three older CD compilations and an additional 12 previously unreleased cuts made available here for the first time ever. And all of it wrapped up in tasty liner notes and newly remastered/improved sound. Here are the Soulful tears and grooves of a classy lady...

US released July 2014 - "The Complete Atco Recordings" by DEE DEE WARWICK on Real Gone Music/Rhino Custom Products/Soul Music Records RGM-0277 OPCD 8864 (Barcode 848064002772) is a 2CD Compilation of Remasters that pans out as follows:

Disc 1 (59:47 minutes):
1. What Manner Of Man
2. You Tore My Wall Down
3. Only The One You Love
4. The Way We Used To Do
5. She Didn't Know (She Kept On Talking)
6. More Today Than Yesterday
7. Make Love To Me
8. I Ain't Got To Love Nobody Else
9. Who Will The Next Fool Be
10. I'm Only Human
11. Down So Low
12. If This Was The Last Song
13. A Girl Who'll Satisfy Her Man
14. I'm Glad I'm A Woman
15. Now That There's You
16. Seachin'
17. Can't We Begin Again

Note: Tracks 1, 2, 15 and 17 are Previously Unreleased
Tracks 3 and 4 first issued in 1996 on the Ichiban CD compilation "She Didn't Know It: The Atco Sessions"

Disc 2 (63:32 minutes):
1. Cold Night In Georgia
2. I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face
3. Love I Found (In You)
4. Rescue Me
5. Pooky
6. Suspicious Minds
7. Make It With You
8. Turn Around And Love You
9. Sweet Dreams
10. Can't it Wait Until Tomorrow
11. Everybody's Got To Believe In Somebody
12. In The Land Of Make Believe
13. Signed Dede
14. Sweet Dreams (Alternate Take)
15. The Way We Used To Do (Alternate Take)
16. Take Your Time And Love Me
17. Beauty, Duty, Charm And Sex
18. Worlds Apart
Tracks 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, and 17 are Previously Unreleased
Tracks 2, 3, 8, 16 and 18 first issued in 1996 on the Ichiban CD compilation "She Didn't Know It: The Atco Sessions"
Track 4 first issued in 2004 on the Rhino CD compilation "Atlantic Unearthed: Soul Sisters"

This 2CD retrospective will allow fans to sequence her US singles and lone album on Atco Records as follows...
[5/1] = Track 5 on Disc 1 - [1/2] = Track 1, Disc 2 etc:

1. She Didn't Know (She Kept On Talking) [5/1] b/w Make Love To Me [7/1]
May 1970 USA 7" on Atco 45-6754
(Backing Vocals by The Dixie Flyers)

2. I'm Only Human [10/1] b/w If This Was The Last Song [12/1]
1970 USA 7" single on Atco 45-6769

3. Cold Night In Georgia [1/2] b/w Searchin' [16/1]
1971 USA 7" single on Atco 45-6796

4. Suspicious Minds [6/2] b/w I'm Glad I'm A Woman [14/1]
May 1971 USA 7" single on Atlantic 45-6810

5. Everybody's Got To Believe In Somebody [11/2] b/w Signed Dede [13/2]
1971 USA 7" single on Atco 45-6840

Her Third Studio LP "Turning Around" was released September 1970 in the USA on Atco SD 33-337 and in the UK on Atco (Plum Label) 2465 018:
Side 1:
1. If This Was The Last Song [12/1]
2. More Today Than Yesterday [6/1]
3. Who Will The Next Fool Be [9/1]
4. I'm Glad I'm A Woman [14/1]
5. She Didn't Know [5/1]
Side 2:
1. A Girl Who'll Satisfy Her Man [13/1]
2. I Ain't Got To Love Nobody Else [8/1]
3. I'm Only Human [10/1]
4. Make Love To Me [7/1]
5. Down So Low [11/1]

The 16-page booklet has detailed liner notes on every song by Soul lover and Genre Expert DAVID NATHAN that includes interviews with the great lady (Nathan cut his journalistic chops on an interview he did with Dee Dee 43-years back). His knowledge and affection for his Soul Lady survivor are infectious while the last few pages feature pictures of those wonderful Atco labels and the rare Picture Sleeves of "She Didn't Know" and "Cold Night In Georgia" (an answer song to "Rainy Night In Georgia"). MIKE MILCHNER carried out the remasters at SonicVision and they're excellent throughout. It should be noted that each track has hiss levels that are higher than some might like (the whole 10-track album was recorded in one day) but Milchner has smartly not tried to damp them down with restrictions - he's let these things breath - and for me - there's even more power in the impassioned performances because of it.

It opens with an absolute one-two sucker punch of previously unreleased nuggets recorded February 1970 in Florida in glorious Stereo clarity - two stormingly great Northern Soul type dancers "What Manner Of Man" and "You Tore My Wall Down". Part penned by Marvin Gaye's Ed Townsend - honestly - expect someone to put out a repro 45 of "You Tore My Wall Down" real soon - and then watch as a feeding frenzy ensues amongst collectors to get a copy and make their way pronto to a dancehall with a jumbo-sized tin of Johnson's Talcum Powder.

The album is mainly slow torch songs - her cover of Charlie Rich's "Who Will The Next Fool Be" is a good example - a slow chugging Soul pace punctuated with roaring vocals, Mike Utley's organ and Jim Dickinson's fiery guitar. It mellows with the lovely "I'm Glad I'm A Woman" (used as a B-side to her cover of Elvis Presley's "Suspicious Minds"). Written by Swamp Dogg and Gary Bonds - the confessional talking-song style of "She Didn't Know (She Kept On Talking)" saw the infidelity tune rise to Number 10 on the R&B singles charts. "Make Love To Me" and "I'm Only Human" plead and hurt in that classic early Seventies Soul way - great stuff. Her Bluesy cover of Mother Earth's "Down So Low' is the closest the album comes to Lydia Pense and the Soul-Rock of Cold Blood - echoed guitars complimenting her powerhouse vocals and the misery mood.

Of the singles her chugging "Cold Night In Georgia" is excellent. It was an answer tune to Brook Benton's hit "Rainy Night In Georgia" (itself a Tony Joe White cover) with lyrics like "I heat my room to 100 degrees...still my heart's about to freeze..." Her Soulful take on Presley's "Suspicious Minds" is workmanlike really - but better is her cover of Sam & Dave's 1968 hit "Everybody's Got To Believe In Somebody" (written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter) with its pretty non-album flipside "Signed Dede".

Of the unreleased stuff perhaps most unexpected is a funked up trot through Patsy Cline's Country stalwart "Sweet Dreams" that is surprisingly cool - but easily trumping that is "The Way We Used To Do" is a torcher where she sounds not unlike a female Donny Hathaway (fabulous Production values too). "Pooky" is awful but redemption comes when she goes a bit Northern Soul again with a brassy version of Fontella Bass' "Rescue Me".

Having cut her backing-vocalist teeth in the early to mid Sixties with Aretha Franklin, Garnet Mimms, Nina Simone and many others - it was time her to shine on her own - so sweet Dee Dee Warwick signed to Atlantic. And on the strength of this wickedly entertaining double-CD - I'm glad she did...

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