Heartbreaker (Dionne Warwick album)

Heartbreaker
Studio album by Dionne Warwick
Released	September 28, 1982
Recorded	April–May 1982 Middle Ear Studio (Miami Beach, Florida) Media Sound Studios (New York City, New York) Criteria Studios (Miami, Florida)
Genre	Pop, R&B
Label	Arista
Producer	Gibb-Galuten-Richardson
Dionne Warwick chronology
Friends in Love (1982)Friends in Love1982 Heartbreaker (1982) How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye (1983)How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye1983

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Heartbreaker is a 1982 album by American singer Dionne Warwick, her fourth for the Arista label. It was largely written by the Bee Gees, and produced by Barry Gibb with Karl Richardson and Albhy Galuten; Gibb and Galuten also served as musicians on the album.

Heartbreaker sold an estimated three million copies worldwide. In the United States, the album was certified Gold for sales in excess of 500,000 copies. In the United Kingdom, it reached No. 3 on the UK Albums Chart^[2] and was certified Platinum.

The title track, which was the album's lead single, hit the US Pop Top 10 as well as No. 1 Adult Contemporary in the United States, and No. 2 in the UK. The following two singles were "Take the Short Way Home" (US Billboard No. 41, Cash Box No. 32)^[3] and "All The Love in the World" (the latter reaching the UK Top 10). In the UK, "Yours" was also released as a single.

Production

The songs of Heartbreaker, with the exception of the final track, a cover of "Our Day Will Come", were initially recorded by Barry Gibb in February 1982 as a set of demos for the album. (These demo recordings were eventually released in 2006 as the album The Heartbreaker Demos.) Warwick recorded the songs during the spring of 1982, and the album was released that fall.

The LP was originally issued as number AL-9609 in the Arista Catalog.

Track listing

All tracks written by Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb, except where noted.

Personnel

• Dionne Warwick – vocals
• Barry Gibb – vocals, guitar, strings and horns arrangement
• Tim Renwick – guitar
• Richard Tee – piano
• George Bitzer – piano, synthesizer
• Albhy Galuten – piano, synthesizer, strings and horns arrangement
• George Perry – bass
• Steve Gadd – drums
• Joe Lala – percussion
• Gary Brown – saxophone
• Peter Graves, Brett Murphey, Whit Sidener, Dan Bonsanti, Neal Bonsanti, Ken Faulk – The Boneroo Horns
• George Terry – guitar on "Heartbreaker"
• Dennis Bryon – percussion
• Daniel Ben Zebulon – percussion
• Anita Lopez – percussion
• Karl Richardson, Dale Peterson, Neal Kent, Sam Taylor-Porter – engineer
• Andy Holfman, Nicky Kalliongis – media sound

The Heartbreaker Demos

The Heartbreaker Demos is a demo version of the album by Barry Gibb. Originally circulating on tape among collectors and later also on CD the album saw wide release on iTunes in October 2006.^[4] The album does not include the non-Gibb composition Our Day Will Come.

References

External links

• Heartbreaker at Discogs