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 fourth 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.
The 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.
- “Heartbreaker” 4:16
- “It Makes No Difference” 4:26
- “Yours” 4:58
- “Take the Short Way Home” 3:47
- “Misunderstood” 4:07
- “All the Love in the World” 3:25
- “I Can’t See Anything (But You)” 3:24
- “Just One More Night” 3:51
- “You Are My Love” 3:50
- “Our Day Will Come” 3:47
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
Tonight, Monday, at 10pm on the LP Lounge we bring needle drops, on 3 great women of music. Dottie West, Dionne Warwick and Judy Collins. We’ve taken the original surround sound vinyl pressings (CD-4 they used to call it) – run them through a decoder (more properly, a demodulator) to extract the 4 discrete channels of sound – then (since we can’t play discrete 4 channel sound) we have encoded all three to be compatible with most home theater systems (QS, RM, Dolby pro logic) – are playing them in surround sound for you – AND – you don’t even need 4 ears (though it wouldn’t hurt, and it would be easier to keep your glasses from sliding off)!
Dionne Warwick (born Marie Dionne Warrick; December 12, 1940) is an American singer, actress and TV-show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health.
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