Voice teacher appreciates DIONNE WARWICK singing PROMISES PROMISES

[@jamals.8786]

Probably her best performance of Promises, Promises, which is also one of her most difficult songs in her catalogue!

[@jmlegrairstudio]

The song is sooooo hard to sing!

[@ikexbankai]

It’s truly impossible to sing

[@rayjones5684]

​@jmlegrairstudio Dionne would sing this nightly in concert for 2 decades. No one dared covered this from her contemporaries didn't dare...Bacharach/ David asked Dionne to help other singers do the song for Broadway.

[@jhadebredenkamp97]

The curtsy at the end SEEEENT me. Her and Whitney and Aretha were so elegent for that!!!! Can tell they were all connected😭😭😭🤞🏽

[@ACloutToken]

Sagittarius, Leo & Aries! They’re all fire signs lol 🔥

[@CortneyHicks]

Sent!

[@chunkymonkey356]

@@ACloutTokenDidn’t know Whitney was a Leo and Aretha an Aries. Now that I know, it makes SOOO much sense. Especially for Aretha lol

[@LFC4178]

She had an amazing physique and her dress, hair and makeup is on point!

[@ThisIsJ.Nicole]

She literally was perfectly on pitch with the horns when she carried out that 'love'❤

[@loisbeyer5336]

One of the finest singers ever. Her technique was inimitable. I could watch vocal coaches break down Dionne Warwick and "Promises, promises" for HOURS. Dionne Warwick fascinates me. No one- including her cousins Cissy and Whitney had technical grace like Dionne. Promises is a masterpiece.

[@MissJaynet]

The fit and hair is everything here....definitely been enjoying learning about Miss Warwick lately

[@jmlegrairstudio]

Her style was ALWAYS 🔥

[@MarieBradley-l7f]

Burt Bacharach wrote songs specifically for Ms. Warwick and her range. No one could do his music the justice that she could. She was one in a million.

[@awilder87]

An artist who I believe never got the recognition she deserved, like why is she just now getting inducted? This song is deemed as one of the most difficult songs in pop music and she does it with ease.

[@aisensantana6765]

Dionne is an international icon! Only the black community is just now finding out how amazing she is thanks to social media but check her resume shes global🎉

[@gemi96377]

​@@aisensantana6765​ This is a whole lie. The Black community has always known about Dionne. Just because she was very popular with non-Black audiences doesn't mean Black people didn't know about her. How in the world would the community she comes from not know about her? Younger generations may just be discovering her, but the Black community as a whole has always known she was an icon.

[@Mongo76]

Oh no..... pease don't think that. Dionne was MAJOR and I meanA MAAAAAAAAJJJJJOOOOOOR Star in the 60's She was not at all underrarated or not recognized. It's just that many people today are unaware of how big she was in her prime.

[@kikataye6293]

She’s an Iconic figure!

[@Esmoure]

She is noted as one of the most amazing singers in history. Not sure why you think she didn’t get the recognition she deserved. She is just old now and after the 80’s there was a new wave of artists and music just changed. But make no mistake she is recognized as a legend.

[@googleuser5654]

This what is meant when a song is created especially for the singer. I can’t see no one else singing this song. Ms Warwick set the bar againfor this one and for her other songs❤❤❤

[@ems2824]

Can we acknowledge her masterful use of breath control . Especially coming out of such a syncopated moment . To be able to flip the switch and to sustain vocal control and purity of tone on one breath !!!!!!!!!!!! 😮 not only did she eat that; she licked the plate and left no crumbs.... Also. Not to mention the control of posture.... this was a master class in technique.

[@rayjones5684]

Watch the song Dionne did prior to "Promises, Promises". Dionne did a cover of "My LOVE" is brilliant.

[@brazi33]

Dionne Warwick's voice is soothing, beautiful, and STRONG. Her songs are real classics❤❤

[@adua78]

She’s one of my absolute favorites. Such an effortless flow, gorgeous unique tone, and stylistic choices are so specific to her, surprising and pleasing.

[@singingmanmd]

My sure favorite ❤❤❤❤

[@chunkymonkey356]

Ashamed to say I’m just now getting into Miss Warwick. Discovered her music about a week ago and it’s been on repeat in my house since! Love this song and its composition

[@ikexbankai]

All of her early music was composed for her voice in particular by her producers

[@raydavis1539]

Even more ashamed that I didn't like her voice growing up. I literally had to become an adult with an ear..to appreciate how great she actually is

[@reginaldcoleman6897]

A pure demonstration of her musicianship. This is a difficult song to perform. Well done!

[@user-fh6hv4eb56]

She looks and sounds beautiful!🌺

[@jeanm.6208]

That bow that she did is the same bow that Whitney has done, Love it.

[@khamikins]

even the greats have their own catalog of greats that they have been influenced by

[@singingmanmd]

Whitney admired and focused everything Ms. "DIONNE". CAN'T blame her, lol❤

[@STEMJim]

She's always been a master of "dynamics".

[@whatwassaid2314]

She is one the greatest! Slept on because we know of her hits as remakes from other popular artists. True legend!!! I am fully obsessed with that clip

[@terrancemcqueen7872]

One of my FAVORITE vocalists of all time!!!

[@kristenjohnson5409]

She sings so effortlessly, ALWAYS!!!! One of my favorite artists for sure

[@shauncorney5944]

Thank you for covering this performance! I’ve been listening to it nonstop and loved hearing your analysis of her vocals!!

[@singingmanmd]

MS. Dionne is no joke! She is the voice of all voices to take note of. That iconic voice is a great one of a kind! She has always effortlessly moved through vocal register, key changes, and styles of singing with pure perfection while making it look very easy until you try it. She holds the throne over all voices, period❤

[@nicim3730]

I love me some Dionne Warwick!

[@1daful]

I love love love classic Dionne 🥰

[@popstarjames]

What I love is how she is able to move with the music as well vocally its just beautiful and timeless, simply amazing

[@Dimasterim]

Criminally underrated singer, deserves to be mentioned alongside the names of Aretha, Gladys and Patti. All of the fundamentals of singing: pitch, breath control, range and emotion she mastered in a way very few have.

[@mic1240]

Only Aretha had more charted songs, Dionne cranked out hit after hits

[@KB-sw5bs]

I think in black culture because she is from church but her sound is pop/soul ... kinda similar to Diana Ross very pop sounding. But real singers love her ... like Whitney more precise with tone, range, technique, clarity, breathe control...

[@Esmoure]

Dionne was a different genre .. That is really all that separates her from her peers. She was a cross over artist that was versatile and connected diverse audiences beyond what her peers could accomplish. She is a cultural force greater than Gladys and Patti and influenced music more than both of them combined. Aretha and Dionne ruled two different markets together… I think people seem to think because she wasn’t appreciated in the 90’s the way some of her peers were that this diminishes her legacy but… I think it’s just a matter of where music went. Dionne Warwick has always been respected as one of the greatest singers of all time.

[@franksmith5122]

She was the perfect voice at the perfect merging of songwriters…

[@gregnelson460]

So very, very true.

[@ronalddowdell9231]

She is a true diva......we don't have many like her left. In her era, talent and class went a long way. Today, anyone who raps a few bars, uses profanity, and wears garrish jewelry while their pants are falling off is a star.

[@vincentstrain2042]

Everybody in Black music culture today is not that way! You can't just put us all in a box with the things you hate! This is lazy anti-black rhetoric! This is why the youth cannot stand old heads!!!🤨

[@deunadams486]

You have to do a video of her signing “I’ll never love this way again (1982). It’s 4:40 long AMAZING!!!!!

[@greenbyrdd8308]

Elegance, grace and perfect pitch. Just the total package1 ❤

[@GavinStevens-e8s]

You can sang!!!!! great reaction

[@darule]

One thing about Dionne Warwick, she had style! Hair and wardrobe always on point!!

[@LadyIrrigator]

The Bob is bobbing. My favorite singer of all time.

[@daleb1279]

I have been listening to Cissy Houston recordings lately following her passing and you can hear her vocal influences on her nieces Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick and of course on Cissy's daughter Whitney Houston. Dionne said at Cissy's funeral that they had lost their matriarch, even though she was only 8 years older than Dionne, Cissy really did help shape their music careers and Dionne and Whitney soared as solo artists even though Cissy's own solo career never saw the same successes. Opera great Leontyne Price is also a cousin to Cissy and Dionne's mother Lee, the talent and class runs strong through the genes in their family.

[@rayjones4992]

Dionne use to preform this seated at time her breathing & musicality is just out of this world!!

[@DeeDee597]

Her outfit was cute. I hope Teyana Taylor wears this outfit when she plays Dionne in her biopic.

[@rasun316]

...me too!

[@charlita25]

Congratulations 🎉 Ms. Dionne 🕊️ #rocknrollhalloffame

[@kimcarter2293]

This is a woman who knows her instrument! Wow.

[@rosscrowe2047]

Your voice and cover clips are great!

[@hedcmac]

You can see her influence on Luther Vandross! Please review her singing her song, "A House is Not a Home"!!! You will love it!

[@tylerhackner9731]

Legendary woman

[@mic1240]

Her ability to read and play music helped her, with difficult songs written for her which often only she could sing well.

[@floridalife8190]

My God she is so beautiful ❤️

[@gregnelson460]

Should have been inducted in the Hall of Fame a long time ago.

[@Mongo76]

This song is the equivalent of a Vocal decathalon. It's a vocal gymnastics song requiring speed, accuracy, and agility in equal amounts.

[@rayjones4992]

Truth you can't get ahead or behind you can even take a breath on the wrong note. Focus. This is why you never ever hear her contemporizes ever try to cover this tune . Darlene Love ( who said backup for Dionne for more than decade) said Dionne was so great she could have done this in her sleep. Darlene said it was pain backup singers would walk on stage start singing the long list of hit songs with a break... Dionne would do this and other tunes 30 to 40 minutes without taking a break.

[@awalkwithgod1417]

I've been waiting on this!!!❤

[@lucasprokopio27]

This is a really hard song to sing!

[@oldsoul_anth243]

I really hope you can do an analysis of Ms. Dionne's performance of I Didn't Mean to Love You live in Spain in 1975. That performance made me a fan!

[@TheJan68]

I absolutely love you!!!

[@jmlegrairstudio]

And I love YOU!

[@doloresphiffer8738]

You have a beautiful voice yourself

[@christopherroberts8788]

I love this video as well and I love how you break it down piece by piece great job!

[@jmlegrairstudio]

Thank you! ✨

[@RonRossmore]

Mary Wilson (of the Supremes) used to push that she was Dionne Warwick's twin sister vocally. People would agree to her face, then laugh behind her back. She died with only a million in her account. More than Dionne here.

[@dyshaun08]

I love this ❤️ !! Thank you so much for doing this video

[@nikitaconqueror9434]

I believe when the Broadway show “Promises Promises“ was in rehearsal, the lead could not sing it, so they had to bring Ms Warwicke in to teach her how to sing it. This is a difficult song to sing. She is a master and a class act all rolled up into one.

[@nerdguru86]

Absolutely love this

[@popstarjames]

Love this review

[@ReginaldRudolph]

@jmlegrairstudio Thank you for posting and giving a vocal analysis of this performance. Could you do another break down of her vocal intro? I've seen where she starts the song with a high, soprano like belt....

[@brandyspain7125]

Indeed

[@Hallaneious]

YO U KNOW U REALLY got a great singing voice yourself there ya know 👍. But Dioone Warwick and Shirley Bassey are both the most versatile vocalists I've ever heard in 50+ years.

[@gilateen]

Yo J, first of all thanks for the videos on sliding. You made me impress myself and my mother. Anyway, do you have your own songs you sing or cover? I wanna hear YOU! Your voice is golden. The way you imitate others is done so well I'm anxious to hear what your actual singing voice is or what octave you choose because you sound as if you have lots of range. I don't consider myself an actual singer but I carry a tune quite well. I too am good at imitating others voices on songs but have yet to find my own personal singing voice. Btw I'm over 40.

[@kionaofoldstones4263]

I just saw this same video clip on twitter earlier .

[@lmitchell477]

You should do I’ll never live this way again

[@mayjackson-u8i]

Dionne Warwick is like Diana Ross in a way because they can sing songs that honestly, most R&B Black artists cannot sing, because they do not have the voice control, nor do they have the versatility to sing it in the vein in which it was written, and that does not mean making it a gospel song when it is not. Yet, both can sing soul music too. Dionne came from the church. That is why I do not get the criticism she received as being too white from a segment within the Black community. I always hear the soulfulness, and effortless sound when both singers sing but they sing with the right amount of R&B as the song calls for. You should cover, “Valley of the Dolls” by Dionne, and “To Love Again” by Diana, and you will see the control, versatility, clarity in tone and pitch, and effortlessness of their voices, and that most R&B singers, even the good ones do not have the versatility to sing these songs.

[@niya4200]

3:39 lol 😭😭

[@bmw3842]

L>love your review and your voice ....

[@perryhughes9429]

She mentioned years ago that the song was originally given to Dusty Springfield. The problem was Dusty simply couldn't handle it so Burt called her. (This was during the time when she and Burt weren't talking because he decided to work with other artists thus leaving her in the dark.) She went on to say they did the song in two takes

[@bdr5518]

She was outdoing the horns

[@MTBPA]

@Jaron: Great work! Your informative and enlightening analyses have improved my music appreciation. How can we send you requests/suggestions of artists for your reviews?

[@JoseRobin-po5ej]

Great analysis, but how is she projecting without a microphone back then?

[@jaysoulxselah8260]

It's called boom mics they're usually hanging from the ceiling and out of sight of the camera

[@vanessaseymour2634]

Hi Jaron, please check out two live Samara Joy performances. 'No More Blues' on the Today Show and 'Day by Day' on The Kelly Clarkson Show.

[@tygiles1194]

Can you please review oh, how I love Jesus by James Moore, I think you would be delighted with his vocals

[@LadyIrrigator]

Dionne don't need no mic Warrick. They misspelled her name on the cover of her 1st album.

[@MaliaRojas21]

Can you review Samoht I’m not god live ?

[@jaybansale4153]

One of the most difficult to sing

[@lonnylonso]

It would be really interesting to see you do Aaliyah's National Anthem

[@brevenconrad]

Can you please react to…Candice Glover, Jessica Sanchez, DeAndre Brackensick (Las Vegas)

[@ehalverson9323]

Like you really didn’t need to go so hard.

[@ronalddowdell9231]

To clarify, I didn't say all......yes there are some hip hop artists I can hang with. I am not anti-black; I'm old enough to remember being called colored. I love young people, but I don't like the way some present themselves in public using the N word to address everyone and have no shame as to what comes out of their mouth. I'm sorry, but that's not black culture. Be blessed.