Dionne Warwick - Only Love Can Break a Heart and similar items

Catalog Number: MUS-2501 Condition Details: Vinyl plays nicely (play-graded). Cover looks great, a few creases near edges; light scuffing and surface impressions (front/back). Inner-sleeve is original (generic white). Spine is easy-to-read with mild wear. Minor shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots, especially near bottom edge. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: Only Love Can Break A Heart I Got Love They Say It's Wonderful You're My World If I Ruled The World Let It Be Me Monday, Monday Didn't We For All We Know Who Gets The Guy About The Record: Unlike other re-packagers who mined the bankrupt Scepter Records catalog for Dionne Warwick hits collections, Musicor Records assembled a compilation in 1977 that consisted of relatively obscure Warwick Scepter recordings, stray LP tracks on which she covered songs like the Mamas the Papas' Monday, Monday and Richard Harris' Jimmy Webb-composed Didn't We. If you didn't look carefully, you might easily suppose that Only Love Can Break a Heart was a new Warwick album, not a selection of old recordings dating well back into the 1960s, and probably that was the idea. Musicor released a single of the title song, written by Warwick mentors Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and a hit in 1962 for Gene Pitney, and it saw some action on the adult contemporary charts and the LP spent almost two months in the lower reaches of the album charts. She also sings sing show tune standards like Irving Berlin's They Say It's Wonderful from Annie Get Your Gun and If I Ruled the World from Pickwick.