Hot! Live and Otherwise

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Hot! Live and Otherwise
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Live album / studio album by
ReleasedMay 20, 1981
Recorded1981
VenueHarrah's Casino, Reno, Nevada
Genre Pop, Adult Contemporary
Length77:42
Label Arista
Producer Steve Buckingham, Michael Masser
Dionne Warwick chronology
No Night So Long
(1980)
Hot! Live and Otherwise
(1981)
Friends in Love
(1982)
Singles from Hot! Live and Otherwise
  1. "Some Changes are Good"
    Released: June 1981
  2. "Now We're Starting Over Again"
    Released: August 1981
  3. "There's a Long Road Ahead of Us"
    Released: 1981
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Hot! Live and Otherwise is a combination live and in-studio album by American singer Dionne Warwick, released in 1981 on Arista Records. The LP was originally issued as number A2L 8605 in the Arista Catalog.

Contents

An extended version of this album is available having been issued on CD in 2007.

History

The live portion of the albums was recorded over several dates at Harrah's Casino in Reno, Nevada in the spring of 1981. The original 2-LP release featured three sides of live recordings, plus a fourth side of studio recordings, including the pop and AC hit "Some Changes Are for Good" and "Now We're Starting Over Again," which later became an Adult Contemporary hit for Natalie Cole in 1989 under the shortened title "Starting Over Again." Three of those studio recordings were produced by Michael Masser and the other two were produced by Steve Buckingham.

The album was reissued on CD in 2007 with new liner notes from David Nathan, a slightly amended track listing (missing the live track "We Never Said Goodbye" and one of the studio tracks "Dedicate This Heart"), and added two previously unissued studio bonus cuts, "When the Good Times Come Again" and "Right Back." The former song was written by Richard Kerr and Will Jennings – the same writing team that provided Warwick with her gold-selling comeback hit, "I'll Never Love This Way Again" in 1979.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."What You Won't Do for Love" / "In the Stone" (medley) Bobby Caldwell, Alphonse Kettner / Maurice White, David Foster, Allee Willis 6:53
2."Don't Make Me Over" Burt Bacharach, Hal David 3:04
3."Alfie"Bacharach, David3:40
4."One in a Million You" Sam Dees 4:30
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
5."Hit Record Medley" ("Walk On By / Anyone Who Had a Heart / You'll Never Get to Heaven / A House Is Not a Home / Message to Michael / Trains and Boats and Planes / The Look of Love / Close to You / Do You Know the Way to San Jose / Valley of the Dolls / There's Always Something There to Remind Me / Make It Easy on Yourself / Promises, Promises / What the World Needs Now / Then Came You")Bacharach, David, André Previn, Phillip Pugh, Sherman Marshall20:30
Side three
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Déjà Vu" Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Anderson 4:40
7."Easy Love" Steve Dorff, Larry Herbstritt, Randy Cate2:56
8."No Night So Long" Richard Kerr, Will Jennings 3:43
9."We Never Said Goodbye"Hayes, Anderson3:44
10."I'll Never Love This Way Again"Kerr, Jennings5:46
Side four
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."There's a Long Road Ahead of Us" Michael Masser, Gerry Goffin 3:48
12."Dedicate This Heart" Michael McDonald, Paul Anka 4:04
13."Some Changes Are for Good"Masser, Carole Bayer Sager 3:58
14."Even a Fool Would Let Go" Kerry Chater, Tom Snow 3:18
15."Now We're Starting Over Again"Masser, Goffin3:08

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References

  1. Wynn, Ron. "Hot! Live and Otherwise > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 29 August 2011.