In Loving Memory of Dee Dee Warwick (September 25, 1945 – October 18, 2008)

she was Dionne Warwicks's sister, niece of Cissy Houston and the cousin of Whitney Houston. In 1965, Warwick signed with Mercury Records, where she recorded with producer Ed Townsend for their subsidiary Blue Rock label, reaching the R&B Top 30 with "We're Doing Fine". It was on the Mercury label in 1966, that she had her biggest hit with "I Want to Be with You" from the Broadway show Golden Boy, a #9 R&B hit, which just missed the pop Top 40 at #41 (Nancy Wilson had reached #54 with her version entitled "I Wanna Be with You" in 1964). The follow-up single was the original version of "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" which, peaking at #13 R&B and #88 Pop, was not Warwick's biggest hit, but became her best known number by virtue of its later success as a duet between Diana Ross and The Supremes and The Temptations. In 1969 she had a US R&B/Soul cross over with. "Foolish Fool" later covered by Chaka Khan. she cut 10 tracks at Muscle Shoals, with Dave Crawford producing along with Brad Shapiro. Only three singles were released with one, a remake of "Suspicious Minds", becoming Warwick's final R&B hit in 1971. Dionne Warwick was with her when she died on October 18, 2008 in a nursing home in Essex County, New Jersey, aged 63.
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