![]() A hit at the time, but subsequently forgotten, it deserves rediscovery. Déjà Vu (1979)Ĭo-written by Isaac Hayes, Déjà Vu was a markedly different single to its predecessor, I’ll Never Love This Way Again: a breathily sung, lushly orchestrated disco ballad with a distinctly funky undertow, rather than an MOR showstopper. Photograph: Photo 12/Photo12/Universal Images Group/Getty Images 13. ![]() Its big single, a Grammy winner, was a beautifully written easy-listening ballad that sounded as if it should be on a film soundtrack: for better or worse, it set the tone for most of her subsequent work. Warwick was scooped out of her 70s doldrums by Barry Manilow, who produced her platinum-selling 1979 album Dionne. ![]() It’s viscerally exciting and hard-hitting in a way her singles seldom were. Warwick isn’t exactly renowned as an experimental artist, which makes You Can Have Him a genuine oddity: daringly enough, there is literally nothing to the first third of the song except frantic drums and vocals. She also turned out to be adept at disco, as evidenced by this lovely Thom Bell-produced, MFSB-assisted single. Warwick would have been a perfect fit for the kind of feathery soft soul peddled by the Chi-Lites and the Stylistics and it is a bit of a mystery why she didn’t make more records in that vein. ![]()
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