I'll Never Love This Way Again
Dionne Warwick | Artist Essentials
First released: 1979 (year verified)
Original 1979 studio recording
MusicAtlas editorial note: The carefully measured first verse makes the later sustained notes feel especially expansive.
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First released: 1979 (year verified)
The original recording is documented in the 1979 release history of Dionne. Only year precision is assigned; later singles, charts, remasters and live versions do not establish its first release.
Recording: Original 1979 studio recording
Credit: Dionne Warwick
Role in this collection: Primary artist
Original album: Dionne
The Definitive Collection - scoped original Arista recording fields
The individual I'll Never Love This Way Again and Deja Vu items retain original 1979 dates. Their full original productions are selected. Many unrelated items carry an implausible inherited 1972 field; those fields and the 1999 anthology date are explicitly excluded. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
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About Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick brought a distinctive contralto and precise phrasing to the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David in the early 1960s. Anyone Who Had a Heart and Walk On By are landmarks of that partnership. Her later work extended through R&B, jazz and soft-rock ballads, including I'll Never Love This Way Again. Across these settings, her recordings connect pop melody with gospel and soul vocal traditions.
Artist background sources
Dionne Warwick - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame biography
Vocal range and phrasing, Bacharach-David collaboration, representative recordings and later R&B/jazz/soft-rock directions. The source's album-date and B-side anecdote are not used. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-17. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
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