{"id":1728,"date":"2022-07-15T09:49:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T16:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauragrey.com\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2022-07-15T09:49:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T16:49:32","slug":"dionne-warwicks-effortless-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/?p=1728","title":{"rendered":"Dionne Warwick\u2019s Effortless Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The melding of Dionne Warwick\u2019s voice with songs by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2010\/05\/05\/126386399\/music-and-lyrics-burt-bacharach-and-hal-david\">Burt Bacharach and Hal David<\/a> was one of the loveliest things to happen to music in the 1960s. Like her younger cousin Whitney Houston, Miss Warwick had a natural elegance and seeming effortlessness to her performances that belied the skill and preparation behind her work. This serene stylishness was played up in studio recordings and TV appearances. In an exciting video of a very young star performing the hit \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bpoBISzUP4o\">Walk on By<\/a>\u201d live in 1964, that cool grace is mixed with a freshness and verve that really makes me wish I\u2019d seen her perform in person. <br><br>But we can still enjoy her wit\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dionnewarwick?s=11&amp;t=HskrXE8QbmCqf1LjeE0IPg\">her Twitter feed<\/a> shows that the superstar now affectionately known by many as \u201cAuntie Dionne,\u201d still has plenty of humor and joie de vivre to go around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The melding of Dionne Warwick\u2019s voice with songs by Burt Bacharach and Hal David was one of the loveliest things to happen to music in the 1960s. Like her younger cousin Whitney Houston, Miss Warwick had a natural elegance and seeming effortlessness to her performances that belied the skill and preparation behind her work. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/?p=1728\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dionne Warwick\u2019s Effortless Grace<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[138,970,1276,1275,1277,318,1279,324,1278],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}