Hot! Live and Otherwise

Hot! Live and Otherwise (album)
Live album / studio album by Dionne Warwick
Released 1981
Recorded 1981 at Harrah's Casino, Reno, NV
Genre Pop, R&B
Label Arista
Producer Steve Buckingham, Michael Masser
Dionne Warwick chronology
No Night So Long
(1980)		 Hot! Live and Otherwise
(1981)		 Friends In Love
(1982)

Hot! Live and Otherwise is a combination live and in-studio album by American singer Dionne Warwick, released in 1981 on Arista Records. Recorded live over several dates at Harrah's Casino in Reno, NV in the spring of 1981, this is a highly sought after album in Dionne Warwick's back catalogue. The original 2-LP release featured three sides of live recordings, plus a fourth side of studio recordings, including the pop and AC hit "Some Changes Are For Good". Three of those studio recordings were produced by Michael Masser and the other two were produced by Steve Buckingham.

Copies of the original US and Japan CD versions of the album have sold on eBay for over US$100.00. SoulMusic.com (distributed in the UK by Expansion Records) reissued the LP on CD in 2007 with new liner notes from David Nathan, a slightly amended track listing, and two previously unissued studio bonus cuts, "When the Good Times Come Again" and "Right Back." The former song was written by Richard Kerr (songwriter) and Will Jennings - the same writing team that provided Warwick with her gold-selling comeback hit, "I'll Never Love This Way Again" in 1979. Interestingly, when Expansion reissued Dionne's 1980 album No Night So Long on CD in 2010, they included (amongst 3 bonus cuts) a song that was originally recorded and intended for the studio side of Hot! Live and Otherwise. The song, the Michael Masser-produced "This Time Is Ours", was ultimately relegated to being the B-side of the album's first single, "Some Changes Are For Good". Thus, by including it on the 2010 No Night So Long reissued CD, the song makes both its first appearance on a Dionne Warwick full-length album and its first appearance on any CD.

Although rumors have circulated that the recorded shows were also filmed, this has not been officially confirmed.

Track listing

Original 2LP, 8-track, and Cassette Version

  1. "What You Won't Do For Love/In The Stone"
  2. "Don't Make Me Over"
  3. "Alfie"
  4. "One In A Million You"
  5. "Hit Record Medley:
    Walk On By
    Anyone Who Had a Heart
    You'll Never Get to Heaven
    A House Is Not a Home
    Message to Michael
    Trains and Boats and Planes
    The Look of Love
    (They Long to Be) Close to You
    Do You Know the Way to San José
    (Theme from) Valley of the Dolls
    (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me
    Make It Easy On Yourself
    Promises, Promises
    What the World Needs Now Is Love
    Then Came You"
  6. "Déjà Vu"
  7. "Easy Love"
  8. "No Night So Long"
  9. "We Never Said Goodbye"
  10. "I'll Never Love This Way Again"
  11. "There's A Long Road Ahead Of Us"
  12. "Dedicate This Heart"
  13. "Some Changes Are For Good"
  14. "Even A Fool Would Let Go"
  15. "Now We're Starting Over Again"

CD (Japan Version, 1986)

  1. "What You Won't Do For Love/In The Stone"
  2. "Don't Make Me Over"
  3. "Alfie"
  4. "One In A Million You"
  5. "Hit Record Medley:
    Walk On By
    Anyone Who Had a Heart
    You'll Never Get to Heaven
    A House Is Not a Home
    Trains and Boats and Planes
    The Look of Love
    (They Long to Be) Close to You
    Do You Know the Way to San José
    (Theme from) Valley of the Dolls
    (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me
    Make It Easy On Yourself
    Promises, Promises
    What the World Needs Now Is Love
    Then Came You"
  6. "Déjà Vu"
  7. "Easy Love"
  8. "No Night So Long"
  9. "We Never Said Goodbye"
  10. "I'll Never Love This Way Again"
  11. "There's A Long Road Ahead Of Us"
  12. "Some Changes Are For Good"
  13. "Now We're Starting Over Again"

CD (US Version, 1990)

  1. "What You Won't Do For Love/In The Stone"
  2. "Don't Make Me Over"
  3. "Alfie"
  4. "One In A Million You"
  5. "Hit Record Medley:
    Walk On By
    Anyone Who Had a Heart
    You'll Never Get to Heaven
    A House Is Not a Home
    Trains and Boats and Planes
    The Look of Love
    (They Long to Be) Close to You
    Do You Know the Way to San José
    (Theme from) Valley of the Dolls
    (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me
    Make It Easy On Yourself
    Promises, Promises
    What the World Needs Now Is Love
    Then Came You"
  6. "Déjà Vu"
  7. "Easy Love"
  8. "No Night So Long"
  9. "I'll Never Love This Way Again"
  10. "There's A Long Road Ahead Of Us"
  11. "Some Changes Are For Good"
  12. "Even A Fool Would Let Go"
  13. "Now We're Starting Over Again"

CD (UK Version, 2007 Reissue)

  1. "What You Won't Do For Love/In The Stone"
  2. "Don't Make Me Over"
  3. "Alfie"
  4. "One In A Million You"
  5. "Hit Record Medley:
    Walk On By
    Anyone Who Had a Heart
    You'll Never Get to Heaven
    A House Is Not a Home
    Trains and Boats and Planes
    The Look of Love
    (They Long to Be) Close to You
    Do You Know the Way to San José
    (Theme from) Valley of the Dolls
    (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me
    Make It Easy On Yourself
    Promises, Promises
    What the World Needs Now Is Love
    Then Came You"
  6. "Déjà Vu"
  7. "Easy Love"
  8. "No Night So Long"
  9. "I'll Never Love This Way Again"
  10. "There's A Long Road Ahead Of Us"
  11. "Some Changes Are For Good"
  12. "Even A Fool Would Let Go"
  13. "Now We're Starting Over Again"
  14. "When the Good Times Come Again"
  15. "Right Back"