Dionne Warwick

And I mean, I've gotten to see some of the greats later in life.

I got to see Dionne Warwick.

I've got to see Gladys Knight.

I've gotten to see Barry Manilow, who I'm like, yes, yes.

Yes.

But a throwback to like, you know, almost like Brill Building era, like Dionne Warwick.

And, you know, these singers who... like had these amazing voices and there would be these like beautiful lush productions around them.

Like she, she feels like she fits in there too, but you can't, she definitely can't be pigeonholed because it depends on what context you're hearing.

It was an extraordinary composer and had a slew of hits before I met him.

All the Dionne Warwick hits and then some, Jackie DeShannon, Do You Know the Way to San Jose, What the World Needs Now is Love, Anyone Who Had a Heart, Walk on By, Don't Make Me Over, Alfie, I can go on and

on.

but he wasn't having hits when I met him and we started to write together and we wrote something first for the pointer sisters, but ultimately we wrote, that's what friends are for, which went on to win song of the year at the Grammys.

However, they carried on performing and recording.

Dionne Warwick replaced Owens and Coley, who took leave to marry their fiancées, in concerts, and the group continued to record material.

That year, their song Foolish Little Girl reached the Pop R&B Top Ten, and they performed two songs, 31 Flavors and You Satisfy My Soul.

For the soundtrack of the film, it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.

But there is no team ever going 7-0 that missed the playoffs.

All the more reason to root, root, root for the home team on Sunday, no? So if we go 7-0, how are you going to feel about that? What if, I think the stories are written, looking into my crystal ball or consulting Dionne Warwick's Psychic Friends Network, let's say the Vikings win on Sunday.

I think the stories are already written.

Vikings will be the first team ever to go 7-0 and miss the playoffs.

But you know, a lot of people don't realize that everybody has played the fool at least once, whether they admit it to themselves or not.

But in some cases, people have that relationship that wasn't meant to be, that didn't work out, you know, the type and, um, No matter how much you're wishing and hoping, like Dionne Warwick used to say,

you

cannot make somebody love you.

And they put together a patchwork that includes doing things like that, I think.

Yeah, and you know, one of the funny things was we also, on those stations my parents listened to, I heard a lot of stuff that I now think is wonderful, you know, like Dionne Warwick doing Burt Bacharach and, you know, Petula Clark, that sort of pop that wasn't really rock and roll from that mid to late 60s.

And I hear that now, and I know all the words, and those songs are imprinted deep in my brain.

I

And it took a long time.

But by 1992, I was on Psychic Friends Network with Dionne Warwick because before the Internet, they had 900 lines and I was in that infomercial.

So I did that.

And then I got into radio in 1994 here in Los Angeles.