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Ladies and gentlemen, Dionne Warwick. Do you mind if i sing . If you see me walking down the street Dionne Warwick, one of the great female singers of all time. Walk on by i heard Dionne Warwicks voice, and i never heard a voice like that before. And youre never going hear a voice like that again. Dont make me over dionnes music is generation. They just dont do it like that anymore. When dionne opens her mouth, did i dont know it was dionne . Of course you did. Her voice was like water in the de...

♪ ladies and gentlemen, dionne warwick. >> do you mind if i sing? ♪ if you see me walking down the street ♪ >> dionne warwick, one of the great female singers of all time. ♪ walk on by ♪ >> i heard dionne warwicks voice, and i never heard a voice like that before. and youre never going hear a voice like that again. ♪ dont make me over ♪ >> dionnes music is generation. they just dont do it like that anymore. >> when dionne opens her mouth, did i dont know it was dionne? ...

>> they approached me and ask if i would be interested in doing demonstration records as long as they would be writing with sal david and new song writing partners. i said, yeah, i guess, as long as it doesnt interfere with my education because my mother would kill you, and me too. >> dionne came in to sing for hal and myself, and we signed her right away. >> florence greenberg said, i cant believe that voice i just heard. it was heavenly. >> thank god for my daddy who negotiated my contract. an...

Narrated mostly in Ms. Warwicks own velvet-toned voice, Dont Make Me Over blends archival footage with personal photographs and newsreels, telling the story...

♪ i did a demonstration record of a song called "make it easy on yourself." and it was agreed between david baccarat, david and myself that that would be my very first record. >> calvin carter was a&r at dj records. he called and he said to me, you know that song "make it easy on yourself," want to do it with jerry butler. basically, run the date, book the musicians. that was a big opportunity for me. >> well, i was on my way from hartford down to new york to do a session for them. and out o...

She sort of looked like, could be a star. >> they approached me and ask if i would be interested in doing demonstration records as long as they would be writing with sal david and new song writing partners. i said, yeah, i guess, as long as it doesnt interfere with my education because my mother would kill you, and me too. >> we signed her right away. >> florence greenberg said, i cant believe that voice i just heard. it was heavenly. >> thank god for my daddy who negotiated my contract. and, no...

She can look at a piece of music, the notes on the page, interpret that, and then make those notes come to life in a special way. it was an amazing thing because her training made that sound easy. >> burt bacharach and david wrote very rangy melodies. and she just effortlessly sang them. >> i am forever grateful i learned as much from her as i learned from john coltrane. >> in the 60s, though we were often visiting detroit, we hear dionne. her unique interpretation of the burt bacharach and hal ...