Heartbreaker (Dionne Warwick song)
| "Heartbreaker" | ||||
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| Single by Dionne Warwick | ||||
| from the album Heartbreaker | ||||
| B-side | "I Can't See Anything (But You)" (Barry Gibb, Albhy Galuten, Maurice Gibb) | |||
| Released | September 1982 | |||
| Recorded | 1982, Middle Ear, Miami Beach; Media Sound, New York | |||
| Genre | Pop, R&B, soul, disco, adult contemporary | |||
| Length | 4:16 | |||
| Label | Arista | |||
| Writer(s) | Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb | |||
| Producer(s) | Gibb-Galuten-Richardson | |||
| Dionne Warwick singles chronology | ||||
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| "Heartbreaker" | |
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| Song by Bee Gees from the album Their Greatest Hits: The Record | |
| Released | 2001 |
| Format | 7" single, CD single |
| Recorded | 1994 at Middle Ear, Miami Beach, Florida |
| Genre | Pop, adult contemporary |
| Length | 4:25 |
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Polydor (UK) Universal (US) |
| Writer(s) | Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb |
| Producer(s) | Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb |
| "Heartbreaker" | ||||
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| Song by Barry Gibb from the album The Heartbreaker Demos | ||||
| Released | November 2006 | |||
| Format | Digital download | |||
| Recorded | February 1982 at Miami Beach, Florida |
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| Genre | R&B | |||
| Length | 4:32 | |||
| Writer(s) | Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb | |||
| The Heartbreaker Demos track listing | ||||
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"Heartbreaker" is a 1982 single released by American pop and soul singer Dionne Warwick. The song was written by Bee Gees' Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, with Barry Gibb's backing vocal being heard on the chorus. It was released from her fourth Arista label studio album of the same name in 1982.
Warwick admitted in The Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits by Wesley Hyatt that she was not fond of "Heartbreaker" (regarding the song's international popularity, she quipped, "I cried all the way to the bank"), but recorded it because she trusted the Bee Gees' judgment that it would be a hit. It turned out to be Dionne's most successful solo hit of the 1980s. The Bee Gees recorded a version, with Barry Gibb on lead vocals, which was featured on the album Their Greatest Hits: The Record, as well as their Love Songs album.
Maurice Gibb, who was a co-writer of this song commented, "I cried my eyes out after we wrote it. I drove home and thought, 'We should be doing this one', and when she did it, it was brilliant. We sang on it, and it still became like a duet between the Bee Gees and Dionne Warwick".
The song reached the top of charts around the world and stands as one of Warwick's biggest career hits. It made the Top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1983. The track reached #14 on Billboard's R&B chart and was also Dionne's eighth #1 Adult Contemporary hit.
It was ranked as Billboard magazine's 80th biggest US hit of 1983. In the UK Singles Chart, the track reached number 2 for two weeks in November 1982.
The Bee Gees' own version was recorded during the sessions for Still Waters in 1994. It was originally planned for an album called Love Songs to be released in 1995. It was eventually released in 2001 on Their Greatest Hits: The Record.
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