Background Vocals
Dee Dee Warwick - I Just Need You
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Dee Dee Warwick - Foolish Fool (1969)
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Dee Dee Warwick - I Want To Be With You (2001)
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Dee Dee Warwick - Call Me (1984)
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Dee Dee Warwick - Collection (2005)
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Dee Dee Warwick - Turnin' Around (1970)
Background Vocals
During her career, Dee Dee Warwick recorded background vocals (the most active years 1961 – 1965) for over 500 songs for:
- Solomon Burke
- Garnet Mimms
- Wilson Pickett
- Ben E. King
- The Drifters
- Chuck Jackson
- Tommy Hunt
- Brook Benton
- Lou Johnson
- Brooks O’Dell
- Johnny Nash
- Fred Anisfield
- Adam Wade
- Cheryl Williams
- Billy Duke
- Billy Washington
- Junior Lewis
- Carol Slade
- Joe Anderson
- Hoagy Lands
- Roy Hamilton
- Van Morrison
- The Isley Brothers
- Linda Scott
- Judy Clay
- Cissy Houston
- Sylvia Shemwell
- Estelle Brown
- Jackie Verdell
- Pat Lundy
- Ronnie Hawkins
- Marv Johnson
- Freddie Scott
- Harold Burrage
- Roscoe Shelton
- Ketty Lester
- Faye Crawford
- Eloise
- Ann Marie
- Patti Jerome
- Dinah Washington
- LaVern Baker
- Aretha Franklin
- Dionne Warwick
- Elvis Presley
- Little Richard
- Jimmy Radcliffe
- The Exciters
- Rudy Lewis
- Clyde McPhatter
- Kenni Woods
- Cathy Saint
- Tutti Hill
- Freddie Solomon
- Jimmy Ricks
- Don Covay
- Susan Lynne
- Edna McGriff
- Anna Craig
- Jeffery Bowen
- Nina Simone
- Esther Phillips
- Betty Harris
- Connie Francis
- Maxine Brown
- Shirley Ellis
- Irma Thomas
- Jackie DeShannon
- Joan Toliver
- Mary Wells
- Bettye LaVette
- Van McCoy
- Bobby Lewis
- Tony And Tyrone
- Magnificent Montague
- Debbie Rollins
- The Majors
- Susan Wayne
- Michael-Ann
- Curtis Knight
- Ed Townsend
- Nappy Brown
- Sam The Man Taylor
- Kai Winding
- Herbie Mann
- Allison Gary
- Bert Keyes
- Buddy Lucas
- The Rhoda Scott Trio
- Bobby Hendricks
- Tony Williams
- Johnny Thunder
- Billy Adams
- Garrett Saunders
- Billy Byers
- Jerry Jackson
- Mighty Sparrow
- Dave “Baby” Cortez
- The Vibrations
- The Corvairs
At various times the background vocals group also included: Dionne Warwick, Cissy Houston, Sylvia Shemwell, Estelle Brown, Myrna Smith, Doris Troy, Jackie Verdell and Judy Clay. If you have heard their unique background vocals and it’s not on this list, please write to me, contact at the bottom of the site.
Dee Dee Warwick worked with: Teacho Wiltshire, Bert Berns, Bert Keyes, Quincy Jones, Ed Townsend, Ozzie Cadena, Jerry Wexler, Kenny Gamble and Thom Bell, Burt Bacharach, Jerry Ross, Jimmy Wisner, Jerry Williams, Johnny Franz, Peter Knight, Rene Hall, Mancel Warrick (father) and Teaneck Choir, Jack McMahon, Bobby Scott, Bill Medley, Paul Vance, Al Capps and others.
Special thanks to: MerkJan Oosterhoff (NL), Carl D’Errico and Jeff Collins (USA), John Benson (UK), Tom Diehl (USA)
Dee Dee became ‘contractor’ for the group, then called ‘Dee Dee’s Girls’. “Once I had half of the group at one place and half at another doing two different dates I had booked for the same time. It came out all right. I was with one and Cissy Houston was with the other, but I decided to give it up rather than mess it up, you know.”
DEE DEE WARWICK AND HER GIRLS
H: So who was all the background singers at that time? It was you
D: Well, it was me, Dionne, Myrna Smith, Estelle Brown and Sylvia Shemwell. Basically, that was the group.
H: And singing, what sort of, what is a background singer?
D: Background singers supply a feel or a lick, you know. A lick is like (singing), you know, we support the lead singer. And the lead singer can respond off of us. So, we fill in where the gaps are, backing them up (laughter).
H: So you’re at Savoy, and you’re doing a lot of backup work. About what year did it really take off for you?
D: Sixty-one (1961), ’61 (1961) or ’62 (1962), somewhere in there.
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