Dionne Warwick - PBS Soundstage, Park West, Chicago, IL, 10-12-1980

Here's another "PBS Soundstage" show. This one is a concert from Dionne Warwick in 1980.

Warwick was very commercially successful in the 1960s, but the 1970s were much more uneven for her. She largely lost her source of seemingly endless classics from the Burt Bacharach and Hal David songwriting team. She did have a Number One hit in 1974 with "Then Came You," but that was almost her only big hit of the decade. Until 1979, that is. She rebounded that year with the hits "I'll Never Love This Way Again" and "Deja Vu." 

So at the time of this concert, she was in the middle of a comeback. Naturally, she performed both of those songs in this concert. However, the vast majority of the concert was made up of what is probably the biggest medley I've ever come across. She did a medley of over twenty songs (she said 23 in her banter, but I count 21), that lasts for over half of the whole concert! During the medley, she just played sections, never complete songs. I broke it into shorter tracks, because otherwise the length of the song title would have been unworkable.

I found a video of this concert, converted it to audio, and chopped it up into mp3s. There are very few audio bootlegs of Warwick concerts, especially from when she was younger. I'm glad to put another one into circulation.

This album is 54 minutes long.

01 With One More Look at You (Dionne Warwick)
02 Watch Closely Now (Dionne Warwick)
03 Deja Vu (Dionne Warwick)
04 talk (Dionne Warwick)
05 Don't Make Me Over - Anyone Who Had a Heart (Dionne Warwick)
06 You'll Never Get to Heaven [If You Break My Heart] - A House is Not a Home (Dionne Warwick)
07 Message to Michael - Trains and Boats and Planes (Dionne Warwick)
08 The Look of Love (Dionne Warwick)
09 [They Long to Be] Close to You (Dionne Warwick)
10 I Say a Little Prayer - Alfie (Dionne Warwick)
11 Do You Know the Way to San Jose - [Theme From] Valley of the Dolls (Dionne Warwick)
12 [There's] Always Something There to Remind Me (Dionne Warwick)
13 This Girl's in Love with You - The April Fools (Dionne Warwick)
14 You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling - I'll Never Fall in Love Again (Dionne Warwick)
15 Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head - Promises, Promises (Dionne Warwick)
16 What the World Needs Now - Then Came You (Dionne Warwick)
17 The Letter (Dionne Warwick)
18 I'll Never Love This Way Again (Dionne Warwick)
19 Finale (Dionne Warwick)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/6fP94G7R

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/tFX6q8MAOfzFLXh/file

The cover image is a screenshot from a video of this exact concert.