Dionne (1979 album)

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Dionne

Studio album by Dionne Warwick
Released	1979
Label	Arista

Dionne was Dionne Warwick's debut album for the Arista label. It was recorded during the summer of 1979 and was released that fall. The LP was originally issued as number AB-4230 in the Arista Catalog. The cover art for this LP features Warwick on a light background, in a fur stole.

The album's lead single was the title track, "I'll Never Love This Way Again" written by Richard Kerr and Will Jennings, and originally recorded by Cheryl Ladd.

The LP would then yield Warwick's next big hit, "Deja Vu." This song, written by Isaac Hayes and Adrienne Anderson, became one of Warwick's signature songs. Other notable songs on the LP were "After You," "In Your Eyes," "The Letter," and "Who, What, Where, When, Why."

The album was produced by Barry Manilow, who was paired with Warwick by Arista founder Clive Davis. Both of the above singles were Grammy winners the next year, and were certified Gold Records by the RIAA. The LP was Warwick's first album to be certified Platinum.

Both commercially and critically, the LP was a huge hit, and a very welcome change for the singer, who had just been through five relatively fruitless years with Warner Bros. Records.^{[citation needed]}