Heartbreaker (Dionne Warwick album)

Heartbreaker
Studio album by Dionne Warwick
Released	September 28, 1982
Recorded	April–May 1982
Studio	Middle Ear, Miami Mediasound, New York City Criteria, Miami
Length	39:51
Label	Arista
Producer	Gibb-Galuten-Richardson
Dionne Warwick chronology
Friends in Love (1982) Heartbreaker (1982) How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye (1983)
Singles from Heartbreaker
"Heartbreaker" Released: September 1982 "All the Love in the World" Released: November 1982 "Take the Short Way Home (US)" Released: January 1983 "Yours" Released: February 1983

Heartbreaker is a studio album by American singer Dionne Warwick. It was released by Arista Records on September 28, 1982, in the United States. Her fifth album with the label, it was largely written by the Bee Gees, and produced by band member Barry Gibb along with Karl Richardson and Albhy Galuten; Gibb and Galuten also served as musicians on the album. Warwick recorded the songs on Heartbreaker during the spring of 1982.

Heartbreaker was released two years after the Bee Gees had written and co-produced the hugely successful album Guilty for Barbra Streisand. While their own careers as a band was now in decline (following the poorly received Living Eyes album in 1981), the Gibb Brothers employed the same tactics that had made Streisand's album such a phenomenal success but this time for Dionne Warwick. They would later go on to further successful collaborations with Kenny Rogers in 1983 and Diana Ross in 1985, before the Bee Gees experienced renewed success as a band themselves in the late 1980s.

The Heartbreaker album sold an estimated three million copies worldwide and ranks as Warwick's highest-charting album in most international territories. It hit #1 in the Norwegian Albums Chart and reached the top five in Sweden, the United Kingdom and in the Netherlands, also entering the top 20 in Austria, Germany, and on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. In the US, Heartbreaker was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales in excess of 500,000 copies.

The title track, the album's lead single, reached the top of charts around the world and stands as one of Warwick's biggest career hits, reaching number one in Poland, Portugal, Sweden and on the US Adult Contemporary chart. The following two singles were "Take the Short Way Home" and "All The Love in the World," the latter of which reached the top ten on the UK Singles Chart. The Heartbreaker Demos , a collection of Barry Gibb's demos, was released in 2006.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

AllMusic editor Rob Theakston found that "while it lacks the genius and soulful grit of Dionne Warwick's earlier classic work, the album was polished and painstakingly produced perfectly for adult pop stations [...] Starting off with a bang courtesy of the title track, Warwick and Gibb go through all of the motions [...] This is not the most definitive album of Warwick's career, but is definitely one of the few highlights that a pop-heavy '80s afforded her." ^[1]

Track listing

All tracks produced by Gibb-Galuten-Richardson. ^[2] All tracks written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, except where noted.

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Heartbreaker"		4:16
2.	"It Makes No Difference"	B. Gibb Albhy Galuten	4:26
3.	"Yours"		4:58
4.	"Take the Short Way Home"	B. Gibb Galuten	3:47
5.	"Misunderstood"		4:07

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"All the Love in the World"		3:25
7.	"I Can't See Anything (But You)"	B. Gibb Galuten M. Gibb	3:24
8.	"Just One More Night"	B. Gibb Galuten	3:51
9.	"You Are My Love"		3:50
10.	"Our Day Will Come"	Bob Hilliard Mort Garson	3:47

Déjà Vu – The Arista Recordings (2020) bonus track ^[3]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
11.	"Let It Be Me" (demo duet with Barry Gibb)	Gilbert Bécaud Manny Kurtz Pierre Delanoë	3:46

Personnel and credits

Musicians

• Dionne Warwick – lead vocals
• Barry Gibb – acoustic guitar, backing vocals, horn and string arrangements
• George Terry – electric guitar (1)
• Tim Renwick – electric guitar (2-10)
• George Bitzer – pianos, synthesizers
• Albhy Galuten – pianos, synthesizers, horn and string arrangements, conductor
• Richard Tee – pianos
• George "Chocolate" Perry – bass
• Steve Gadd – drums
• Dennis Bryon – percussion
• Joe Lala – percussion
• Anita Lopez – percussion
• Daniel Ben Zebulon – percussion
• Gene Orloff – string contractor
• Gary Brown – saxophone solo
• The Boneroo Horns:
  • Dan Bonsanti – saxophones
  • Neal Bonsanti – saxophones
  • Whit Sidener – saxophones
  • Peter Graves – trombone, leader
  • Ken Faulk – trumpet
  • Brett Murphy – trumpet

Production

• Producers – Barry Gibb, Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson.
• Engineer – Karl Richardson
• Assistant Engineers – Mike Fuller, Andy Hoffman, Nicky Kalliongis, Neal Kent, Dale Peterson and Sam Taylor-Porter.
• Recorded at Criteria Studios and Middle Ear Studio (Miami, FL); Mediasound (New York, NY).
• Mastered at Criteria Studios
• Project Coordinators – Dick Ashby, Marie Byars, Tom Kennedy Robyn Frye-Kove and Holly Ferguson.
• Art Direction and Design – Donn Davenport
• Photography – Gary Gross

Charts

Weekly charts Weekly chart performance for Heartbreaker Chart (1982–1983) Peak position Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) [4] 14 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [5] 13 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [6] 5 Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [7] 9 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [8] 18 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [9] 32 Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [10] 1 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [11] 2 UK Albums (OCC) [12] 3 US Top LPs & Tape ( Billboard ) [13] 25 US Black LPs ( Billboard ) [14] 13 US Top 100 Albums ( Cash Box ) [15] 38 US Top 75 Black Contemporary Albums ( Cash Box ) [16] 17

Year-end charts Year-end chart performance for Heartbreaker Chart (1983) Position Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [17] 67 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [18] 64 US Top LPs & Tape (Billboard) [19] 71

Certifications and sales

Certifications for Heartbreaker

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Netherlands (NVPI) [20]	Gold	50,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [21]	Platinum	300,000^
United States (RIAA) [22]	Gold	500,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

See also

• The Heartbreaker Demos

References

1. Theakston, Rob. "Dionne Warwick: Heartbreaker > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
2. Heartbreaker (booklet). Dionne Warwick. Arista Records. 1982.
3. "Dionne Warwick: Déjà Vu – The Arista Recordings (1979–1994), 12CD Boxset". cherryred.co.uk. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
4. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). Sydney: Australian Chart Book. p. 333. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
5. "Austriancharts.at – Dionne Warwick – Heartbreaker" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
6. "Dutchcharts.nl – Dionne Warwick – Heartbreaker" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
7. Pennanen, Timo (2021). "Dionne Warwick". Sisältää hitin - 2. laitos Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla 1.1.1960–30.6.2021 (PDF) (in Finnish). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 278.
8. "Officialcharts.de – Dionne Warwick – Heartbreaker". GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
9. "Charts.nz – Dionne Warwick – Heartbreaker". Hung Medien. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
10. "Norwegiancharts.com – Dionne Warwick – Heartbreaker". Hung Medien. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
11. "Swedishcharts.com – Dionne Warwick – Heartbreaker". Hung Medien. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
12. "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
13. "Billboard Top LPs & Tape" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 95, no. 2. New York: Billboard Publications Inc. January 15, 1983. p. 55. ISSN   0006-2510.
14. "Black LPs". Billboard . Vol. 94, no. 49. New York: Billboard Publications Inc. December 11, 1982. p. 53. ISSN   0006-2510.
15. "Cash Box Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Cash Box . Vol. XLIV, no. 29. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc. December 11, 1982. p. 32. ISSN   0008-7289.
16. "Top Black Contemporary 75 Albums" (PDF). Cash Box . Vol. XLIV, no. 29. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc. December 11, 1982. p. 27. ISSN   0008-7289.
17. "Top 100 Album-Jaaroverzichten" (in Dutch). MegaCharts. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
18. "Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. 1983. Archived from the original on October 5, 2021. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
19. "Top Pop Albums" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 95, no. 52. New York: Billboard Publications Inc. December 24, 1983. p. TA-16. ISSN   0006-2510.
20. "Dutch album certifications – Dionne Warwick – Heartbreaker" (in Dutch). Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van beeld- en geluidsdragers . Retrieved July 29, 2020.Enter Heartbreaker in the "Artiest of titel" box. Select 1983 in the drop-down menu saying "Alle jaargangen".
21. "British album certifications – Dionne Warwick – Heartbreaker". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved July 29, 2020.
22. "American album certifications – Dionne Warwick – Heartbreaker". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved July 29, 2020.

External links

• Heartbreaker at Discogs (list of releases)