Editing Dionne Warwick (section)

=== ''Heartbreaker'' and move to Arista (1979–1989) ===
With the move to Arista Records and the release of her RIAA-certified million seller "[[I'll Never Love This Way Again]]" in 1979, Warwick was again enjoying top success on the charts. The song was produced by [[Barry Manilow]]. The accompanying album, ''[[Dionne (album)|Dionne]]'', was [[Platinum certification|certified platinum]] in the United States for sales exceeding one million units. The album peaked at No. 12 on the ''Billboard'' albums chart and made the top 10 of the ''Billboard'' R&B albums chart. Warwick had been personally signed and guided by the label's founder [[Clive Davis]], who told her, "You may be ready to give the business up, but the business is not ready to give you up."{{citation needed|date=September 2020}} Warwick's next single release was another major hit. "[[Déjà Vu (Dionne Warwick song)|Deja Vu]]" was co-written by [[Isaac Hayes]] and hit No. 1 Adult Contemporary as well as No. 15 on ''Billboard''{{'}}s Hot 100. In 1980, Warwick won two [[22nd Grammy Awards|Grammy Awards]] for [[Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female]] for "[[I'll Never Love This Way Again]]" and [[Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female]] for "Déjà Vu". She became the first female artist in the history of the awards to win in both categories the same year.<ref name="Westcoast.dk 2018" /> Her second Arista album, 1980's ''[[No Night So Long]]'' sold 500,000 U.S. copies and featured the title track which became a major success – hitting No. 1 Adult Contemporary and No. 23 on ''Billboard''{{'}}s Hot 100<ref>{{cite book |title=Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–2001 |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2002 |publisher=Record Research |page=254}}</ref> – and the album peaked at No. 23 on the ''Billboard'' albums chart.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/search/albums/no+night+so+long |title=Album Search for 'no night so long' |website=AllMusic |access-date=January 12, 2018}}</ref>

[[File:Dionne Warwick 3.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Dionne Warwick by Allan Warren, {{circa|1980}}s]]
In January 1980, while under contract to Arista Records, Warwick hosted a two-hour TV special called ''Solid Gold '79''. This was adapted into the weekly one-hour show ''[[Solid Gold (TV series)|Solid Gold]]'', which she hosted throughout 1980 and 1981 and again in 1985–86. Major highlights of each show were the duets she performed with her co-hosts, which often included some of Warwick's hits and her co-hosts' hits, intermingled and arranged by ''Solid Gold'' musical director Michael Miller. Another highlight in each show was Warwick's vocal rendition of the ''Solid Gold'' theme, composed by Miller (with lyrics by [[Dean Pitchford]]).<ref name="Westcoast.dk 2018" />

After a brief appearance in the top forty in early 1982 with [[Johnny Mathis]] on "Friends in Love" – from the album of the same name – Warwick's next hit later that same year was her full-length collaboration with [[Barry Gibb]] of the [[Bee Gees]] for the album ''[[Heartbreaker (Dionne Warwick album)|Heartbreaker]]''. The project came about when [[Clive Davis]] was attending his aunt's wedding in Orlando, Florida in early 1982 and spoke with Barry Gibb. Gibb mentioned that he had always been a fan of Warwick's, and Davis arranged for Warwick and the Bee Gees to discuss a project. The Gibb brothers had just had tremendous success writing and co-producing a smash hit album for [[Barbra Streisand]] (1980's ''[[Guilty (Barbra Streisand album)|Guilty]]''), which prompted Davis to suggest they do something similar for Warwick. Both the album and [[Heartbreaker (Dionne Warwick song)|the title single]] were released in October 1982 to massive success.<ref name="Westcoast.dk 2018" /> Warwick later stated to Wesley Hyatt in his ''Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits'' that she was not initially fond of "Heartbreaker" but recorded the song because she trusted the Bee Gees' judgment that it would be a hit. The song did indeed become one of Warwick's biggest international hits, returning her to the top 10 of the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Hot 100]] as well as No. 1 Adult Contemporary and No. 2 in both the UK and Australia. The song was also a top-10 hit throughout continental Europe, Japan, South Africa, Canada and Asia. The album ended up selling 3 million copies internationally and earned Warwick an [[RIAA]] [[Gold (RIAA certification)|gold record]] award in the US. In the UK, ''Heartbreaker '' became Warwick's most successful album, peaking at No. 3 and was certified [[Platinum (BPI certification)|platinum]], while both the hit title track and follow-up single "[[All the Love in the World (Dionne Warwick song)|All the Love in the World]]" (another UK top ten hit) would both be certified silver, becoming her biggest selling singles there.

In 1983, Warwick released ''[[How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye]]'', produced by [[Luther Vandross]]. The album's most successful single was the title track, "How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye", a Warwick/Vandross duet, which peaked at No. 27 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. It also became a top-10 hit on the Adult Contemporary and R&B charts. The album peaked at No. 57 on the ''Billboard'' albums chart. Of note was a reunion with the original [[Shirelles]] on Warwick's cover of "[[Will You Love Me Tomorrow|Will You (Still) Love Me Tomorrow?]]". The album ''[[Finder of Lost Loves (album)|Finder of Lost Loves]]'' followed in 1984 and reunited her with both [[Barry Manilow]] and Burt Bacharach, who was writing with his then current lyricist partner and wife, [[Carole Bayer Sager]]. In 1985, Warwick contributed her voice to the multi-[[Grammy Award]] winning charity song "[[We Are the World]]", along with vocalists like [[Michael Jackson]], [[Diana Ross]], and [[Ray Charles]]. The song spent four consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart. It was the year's biggest hit – certified four times platinum in the United States alone.<ref name="Westcoast.dk 2018" />

In 1985, Warwick and Bacharach once again collaborated on the song "[[That's What Friends Are For]]". This period was the first time they had worked together since the 1970s, when Warwick felt abandoned by Bacharach and Hal David dissolving their partnership. Warwick said of their reconciliation:<ref name="McEvoy 2023">{{cite news |last=McEvoy |first=Colin |title=What It Was Like to Work with Burt Bacharach, in the Words of his Collaborators |work=[[Biography (TV program)|Biography]] |date=February 9, 2023 |url=https://www.biography.com/musicians/a42815918/burt-bacharach-famous-collaborators |accessdate=February 11, 2023}}</ref>

{{blockquote|We realized we were more than just friends. We were family. Time has a way of giving people the opportunity to grow and understand ... Working with Burt is not a bit different from how it used to be. He expects me to deliver and I can. He knows what I'm going to do before I do it, and the same with me. That's how intertwined we've been.<ref name="McEvoy 2023" />}}
[[File:Dionne Warwick (1986 NSMT publicity photo).jpg|thumb|Warwick in 1986]]
Warwick recorded "That's What Friends Are For" as a benefit single for the [[American Foundation for AIDS Research]] (AmFAR) alongside [[Gladys Knight]], [[Elton John]] and [[Stevie Wonder]] in 1985. The single, credited to "Dionne and Friends", was released in October and eventually raised more than three million dollars for that cause. The tune was a triple No. 1 – R&B, Adult Contemporary, and four weeks at the summit on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in early 1986 – selling close to two million 45s in the United States alone. "Working against AIDS, especially after years of raising money for work on many blood-related diseases such as sickle-cell anemia, seemed the right thing to do. You have to be granite not to want to help people with AIDS, because the devastation that it causes is so painful to see. I was so hurt to see my friend die with such agony", Warwick told ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in 1988.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} "I am tired of hurting and it does hurt." The single won the performers the [[NARAS]] Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, as well as Song of the Year for its writers, Bacharach and Bayer Sager. It also was ranked by ''Billboard'' magazine as the most popular song of 1986. With this single, Warwick also released her most successful album of the 1980s, titled ''[[Friends (Dionne Warwick album)|Friends]]'', which reached No. 12 on the ''Billboard'' albums chart.<ref name="Westcoast.dk 2018" />
In 1987, Dionne Warwick won the Special Recognition Award at the [[American Music Awards]] for "That's What Friends Are For".

In 1987, Warwick scored another hit with "[[Love Power (Dionne Warwick song)|Love Power]]". Her eighth career No. 1 Adult Contemporary hit, it also reached No. 5 on the R&B chart and No. 12 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. A duet with [[Jeffrey Osborne]], it was also written by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager, and it was featured on Warwick's album ''[[Reservations for Two]]''. The album's title song, a duet with [[Kashif (musician)|Kashif]], was also a chart hit. Other artists featured on the album included [[Smokey Robinson]] and [[June Pointer]].<ref name="Westcoast.dk 2018">{{cite web |url=http://www.westcoast.dk/artists/w/dionne-warwick/ |title=Dionne Warwick – Blue Desert |website=Westcoast.dk |access-date=January 12, 2018}}</ref>