Dionne Warwick remembers her friends Aretha Franklin and Nancy Wilson

[@stevewashington4372]

Dionne Warwick. An American and International Treasure!

[@donperfect9106]

The way Aretha sang never grow old good god almighty

[@MrNewktrane]

I have the 1st recording of Lady Soul singing " Never Grow Old" the year before the great Ms. Warwick saw her- at Rev. C.L. Franklin's New Bethel Baptist Church in 1956 . 14 years young sounding like she's well in her 40s. Unbelievable phrasing & feeling and with that golden age of some of this country's greatest voices alive - Mahalia, Bro. Joe May, Marion Williams, Sam Cooke, Rosetta Tharpe, Archie Brownlee, Clara Ward, etc....she was already in her teens a serious peer of those all time great voices. The highest complement that Duke Ellington would state of a great artist is their being " Beyond Category". That certainly applies to the 3 lovely ladies mentioned in this video clip as Ms. Warwick, Nancy(The Baby), & Sister Ree all changed up the vocal game forever & continue to enrich serious music listeners around the world.

[@noreneal7252]

@@MrNewktrane 💯

[@singingmanmd]

Dionne always gives her true feelings. I love her classy way of getting to the point.

[@deewoo2776]

Nancy Wilson was the last great songstlylist. She was classy and delivered the vocals as a professional should. I love Nancy's music.

[@bennyadler5882]

The real queen of Pop, always was, always will be. Beautiful, honest, charismatic lady who never speaks poorly of anyone.

[@majorboyce123]

Lady of class. Very interesting that Dionne will never down another artist. She's honest with out being shady or bashing.

[@JohnDoe-wx2st]

And I love that about her. She’s always been very straightforward and that can intimidate a lot of people who take it as being rude but I have a deep appreciation for people who can tell it how it is.

[@direfranchement]

That's not true. She has been very shady throughout her career and has no problem making shady comments about other artists.

[@JohnDoe-wx2st]

@@direfranchement bullshit

[@happypvr]

@@direfranchement Pure bullshit, hater!

[@texan903]

@@direfranchement during this particular interview Dionne was not shady at all, that was the point. Regardless of what she may have done before or after this, she didn't throw any shade during this interview.

[@achosenvessel6563]

Dionne is my favorite.

[@singingmanmd]

Mine too!!!

[@MPardo-cx6jj]

I didn't see or hear that Cissy Houston or Dionne Warwick attended Aretha's funeral. I thought that they would had been there, but when they weren't, I thought they might have had other obligations. End of story, or so I thought. Later, I saw a list of celebrities that had sent notes of sympathy to Franklin's family and Cissy and Dionne were not listed. The thought that came to mind, was that they both probably held grudges against Aretha, due to Aretha saying that she ought to sue Dionne for libel over disagreements stemming from Aretha not appearing at Whitney's funeral. In my opinion, if they indeed held grudges against Aretha at the end of Aretha's life, in regard to what I've stated, Cissy and Dionne were wrong. Especially, if you know that Aretha is "a piece of work" under normal circumstances. Therefore, she probably would be worse if she is dying of Cancer. Many terminal patients go through much anger, back-biting, resentment, denial and moodiness. That's exactly why Patti LaBelle forgave Aretha, when Aretha "brushed" Patti off at the White House! God bless Patti for her absolute kind, compassionate and loving ways! Being life-long friends and Christians, Cissy and Dionne should have shown better and held no grudges, if indeed they held any at all!!!???

[@DrissAbderrahmane]

Aretha and Dionne and how is it possible to Forget Nancy Wilson : her velvet voice i’ve just heard again and again guess who i saw today !

[@deewoo2776]

Nancy Wilson total class act. I was listening to Nancy's music from the 1980s on Columbia Records and she was phenomenal with Ramsey Lewis and Carl Anderson. I actually love her whole catalog.

[@pacinorules752]

Nice to hear her remarks about Aretha. It looks like their relationship had some ups and downs. I hope they were alright at the time of Aretha's death. There is a wonderful clip of them singing I Say a Little Prayer duet on the Solid Gold show. Dionne's voice was perfectly suited for Bacharach/David songs. Of course, she several more hits in the 70s and 80s. I would like to see her get more flowers in terms of awards while she is still with us (Kennedy Center Honors, etc)

[@colorpurple4623]

A long time friendship like that, theres bound to be some ups an downs. But if you are trully friends the good out weighs the bad, in which case it eems as though they were. All of my six friends, I've known for over 50 years, and there is this one friend, who is my longest friend, we met at six years old, she to has been a peice of work, as Im sure she would say the same of me, but our frienship, loyalty and love for one another have been tried and tested, and we pervailed.

[@cleopatrajones2024]

@@colorpurple4623 I nominated Dionne twice for the Kennedy Center but we need to get you know who out of the way first.

[@missann1985]

@@cleopatrajones2024 Who is you know who?

[@Bruchapalooza]

I bring you great news from the future 😄

[@JohnDoe-wx2st]

Dionne has always been 1 to speak her mind the way she feels.

[@singingmanmd]

MS. LEGENDARY DIONNE looks very vibrant and healthy

[@cathythomas9128]

Looking good ms. Dionne. 😃😃😃😃

[@stseinyt]

I love Ms Dionne ❤️ She is a Precious Soul 💎

[@singingmanmd]

Ms. Dionne is such a classy lady whether she agrees with a friend or person or not especially her colleagues, she never tells the "bad" or the challenge in a tacky or grotesque manner. 99.9% of the time, she speaks very highly of her friends/colleagues. Unlike, some celebrities and I can think of a few that are around her age on the SLY tip that does the opposite. I always admire her delivery❤❤

[@sheroderickjohnson]

Aretha has cited Dionne as one of her best friends in the businesses many times.

[@postermark7173]

Was that before or after the fax

[@rashawncampbell7619]

@@postermark7173 right lol

[@scaryanima9268]

Friends argue and have disagreements.

[@sheroderickjohnson]

@@scaryanima9268 I agree

[@sashineb.2114]

@@sheroderickjohnson Yes, but threatening to sue a friend over an innocent comment?

[@calvinhill9581]

THEY NEW HOW ARETHA WAS AND DID NOT PAY ATTENTION TO HER WHEN SHE WAS ACTING LIKE THAT. DIONNE NEW THAT SHE WAS DYING AND DID NOT LET IT GET TO HER, BECAUSE THEY HAVE HAD SOME GOOD TIMES TOGETHER.

[@TheBeatboxChamp]

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[@Handle2point0]

@@TheBeatboxChamp relax

[@TheBeatboxChamp]

@@Handle2point0 foh

[@timwillias82]

Calvin Hill Exactly!

[@colorpurple4623]

Wow!! you read a lot into that one phrase.

[@dontelindsey5846]

The queen of Smoove pop

[@misterjgl]

Shade but they all had respect for one another

[@gaynelllee5435]

I know in that Wendy interview, Wendy asked Aretha who was her friends? Aretha replied you mean in the business? She said Dionne, Chaka etc. I don't know what Dionne did before the Rolling Stone interview but Ree Ree cut her off real quick.

[@MPardo-cx6jj]

If Aretha was "a piece of work," under normal circumstances, I'm sure that having a terminal disease, like many facing the same crisis, more often than not, would tend to make one even more moody, angry, and engage in petty backbiting! Under these circumstances, I think Aretha should had been forgiven for her fax and sassy or feisty ways. by those who didn't appreciate or held a grudge towards Aretha, due to her behavior when she was in grave condition!!!

[@AGNETHAFALTSK0G]

❤Her shirt is very age-appropriate, with no excess breast skin visible. Dionne Warwick believes in staying true to her elderly woman's voice, rather than forcing it because it's in a very rusty state today. It is worth noting that she is 85 years old and still attracts interest. Beautiful effort.

[@sheroderickjohnson]

Nancy Wilson was more than jazz

[@gfgall]

One of the greatest vocal stylists ever. She could sing anything and make it her own.

[@TreenaBeena]

Dionne, both you and Aretha can/could be pieces of work at times. Lol, but can't we all? I love you both. Thank you for the beautiful music, and Rest in Peace to Aretha Franklin and Nancy Wilson.

[@aisensantana6765]

You dont know them off stage in real life 😂 all aretha close friends say that about her but they loved her dearly

[@willmartinez5496]

I did not know the great Nancy Wilson was gone.

[@MPardo-cx6jj]

It's true that Aretha could be described as having been a "piece of work" by many! However, Dionne herself is "a piece of work" and not just in her senior years, but all her life! LOOK WHO'S TALKING!!! I'm not knocking Aretha or Dionne. I'm just stating that they BOTH were and are, respectively, "A PIECE OF WORK!"

[@MCrockerful]

For hose questioning Dionne's comment about them meeting when they were both 15 years old, let's assume they met in the summer of 1956 (Dionne mentioned them meeting at a revival). Dionne would have been 15 years old (born December of 1940) and Aretha would have been 14 years old (born in March 1942). It's really not that big of a stretch...

[@bennyrodriguez1244]

Dionne was 15 for the majority of 1956. She was born late in the year in December.

[@deronreed2945]

I didn't even know they liked each other. her & Aretha

[@timwillias82]

Deron Reed they were very close friends the whole family those Got2bereal vids made it a feud that never was.

[@polyprinz]

That's family, you fight and make-up, and lets all keep in mind that these two were very impressionable to a young Whitney growing up. There was a war of words, and they did not speak for 5 years prior to Aretha's death.

[@colorpurple4623]

Thats because you dont know them, so why would you have known, except they spoke on it., So now you know.

[@aisensantana6765]

Dionne was also close aretha sister carolyn who played cards with dionne

[@danielrobinson9270]

Dionne is incorrect when she said Nancy Wilson should not have been nominated in her category as she was a jazz singer. Nancy said she never considered herself a jazz singer and was heavily influenced in RnB so...I think Nancy would have disagreed with Dionne's statement.

[@Seabasstien]

I agree with you. How Glad I Am is an R&B song and Nancy performed it as R&B/ pop. Grammys would not nominate black artists in anything other than R&B. Nancy won and deserved that Grammy and many more.

[@meboneme1]

I THINK DIONNE KNOWS MUSIC BETTER than YOU! EVERYONE that i have EVER heard speak of Nancy Wilson, speaks of her "JAZZ" MUSIC!

[@direfranchement]

It's not only that---Nancy did do some fine jazz recordings in her early career, but I think the song Dionne is talking about is "How Glad I Am", and tha wasn't a jazz song. I suppose R&B is appropriate...by this point Nancy's recordings were branching out and she wasn't doing strictly jazz. "How Glad I Am" is definitely not jazz.

[@danielrobinson9270]

@@direfranchement Got you. Thank you for clarifying. Much appreciation.

[@sheroderickjohnson]

i agree Nancy Wilson was more than jazz

[@Chinhooi_Ng]

The Iron Lady of Soul remembers the Queen of Soul

[@direfranchement]

Please, Dionne is not "The Iron Lady of Soul" or even a Soul singer. She is and has always been a Pop singer. Enough with these arbitrary fan created titles.

[@mspiesundee7202]

I love that... The Iron lady of Soul. Love Lady D.

[@colorpurple4623]

Lol, Iron Lady of soul, where that come from, I never heard that before.

[@mmurph617]

@@direfranchement I would say she’s the First Lady of Pop.

[@oldsoul_anth243]

@@mmurph617 I like that so much! She was once tagged as the "Princess of Pop" but Ibguess that's an understatement for the influence and contribution she gave.

[@shaunwoo9651]

It was a big misunderstanding at Whitney funeral and it’s sad we couldn’t see them make up before Arethas on going

[@iniakalitoni3405]

Coz by 15 Aretha had a matured body, she had a baby by then. So I think the body changes and that had alot to do with her voice eventually

[@ghislaineabraham518]

Vous m'excuserai de n'avoir pas pu relire mon texte d'il y a quelques minutes parceque tandis que je le faisais mon doigt a touché par erreur là flêche d'envoi du commentaire. J'avais voulu corriger les fautes de frappe ainsi que celles d'attention. Once again congratulations Queen Warwick. Thank you for your beautiful voice and all those nice songs

[@shaqbailey3869]

They knew each other for years !!! Of course they had issues but all the girls say we know ha re gets

[@destinee971ify]

I don't think Cissy and Dionne liked how hot and cold Aretha was with Whitney once Whitney became famous. Narada Walden said Aretha would give Whitney the cold shoulder and act funny towards her, Cissy and Dionne clearly didn't like that

[@shaqbailey3869]

@@destinee971ify this is true it’s been said that once Whitney signed with arista records Aretha started treated her and cissy funny it’s so silly for Aretha to be so intimidated about so many of her counterparts and even the girls that came after her

[@lumberjack297]

Heard she and Aretha couldn't stand each other

[@jamarscott2774]

Wow funny thing is they are two apart Dionne warwick is older

[@r.higgins212]

Now Dionne's honesty about Aretha may come into question in this clip. And I love me some Dionne. Aretha castigated Dionne, especially over Whitney and accused her of libel. Aretha has even stated that Dionne never liked her and they were never friends in a Rolling Stone interview. So Dionne you have Aretha as a friend in your eyes. But Aretha in that Rolling Stone interview doesn't, convey that? Now we can say as some have here that Dionne has more class. And to her credit, taken as they say the higher ground about everything. And overlooked Aretha because she was dying and as stated in this clip, that "Aretha was a piece of work". Ok fine no doubt she was. Plus another thing Dionne states that she and Aretha were both 15 when they meet? Really? According to published creditable records, Aretha was born in 1942 and Dionne 1940? So how could both being 15 match up? Alright Ms. Warwick loves ya. But let's keep it all real. .

[@meboneme1]

ARETHA HERSELF spoke of her LONG friendships with DIONNE, CHAKA,PATTI and others! So, fuck what you READ,LISTEN to what comes out of their mouths.

[@ronwilliams717]

@@meboneme1 Damn straight! I think they all had their moments look they were all around each other for 60 years every last one of them,maybe not Chaka she came along much latter so they have had their ups and downs through out the years and that's cool! All of them saw each other at the Apollo night after night as young girls so you could imagine what went on.

[@ketariles2257]

Dionne said Aretha was 15, she didn't say that she was. She clearly states that she was 17.

[@r.higgins212]

@@ketariles2257 what interview were you watching? In this video she clearly said they were both 15. No where did Dionne say she was 17.

[@r.higgins212]

@@meboneme1 first off what's with the outright profane nastiness? That was totally uncalled for if you disagreed. All you had to do was bring a fact and state an objection. It is factual that Aretha held hostility toward Dionne. Especially about Whitney Houstons funeral. So is it something you personally don't want to believe despite the fact,? Well, that's your choice. But in any case using profanity and being nasty was wrong and there was no reason for it.

[@mmurph617]

Aretha Franklin? Friend?!?

[@rashawncampbell7619]

Aretha? Maybe in the past but nah... She shaded Aretha at a FUNERAL

[@virginiacoleman2340]

Aretha was a "piece of work"??? (It's the skillet talking about the pot)!!! Dionne's the one, who deliberately put Aretha Franklin's absence on blast,, to everyone at Whitney Houston's funera!!! (Dionne Warwick's "a piece of work", too" like all the "Divas" in the music business)!!!

[@clarencesanders3789]

But you talked shit about her when she didn't come to Whitney's funeral? I get that you felt the closeness should have made her come but she was up in age and had just did a show the night before.

[@heroxzq1263]

What was the 'shit' she said exactly?

[@NourNour-rw9xe]

@@heroxzq1263 she said nothing. Those supposedly grown-up "men" make up bs and propagate it

[@polyprinz]

It is funny, that these two legends, Aretha and Dionne have had an on going feud for 5 years, and did not speak, before Aretha died.

[@colorpurple4623]

whats funny about that

[@massagetherapyforinjuriesf8197]

Motown for ever!!