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The legendary Mexican Divorce was issued in February 1962 as the "B" side of the Drifters When My Little Girl Is Smiling. The subject of divorce was still touchy for 1962 and Mexican Divorce was relegated to the flip side, one of the Drifters' classiest ever. This is the recording that introduced Bacharach to Warwick. Six months earlier, in 1961 Bacharach recorded Mexican Divorce with the Drifters and at the session he met a 20 year old backup singer ("in pigtails and sneakers"). That background singer was to rival Aretha Franklin as the most important female singer of the '60s. Bacharach took immediate notice of the young, fetching shape of Marie Dionne Warrick and her stirring vocal quality and asked her to do some demo singing. Producers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stroller also took notice of Bacharach's interest and put Warwick's vocal so high up in the mix this could almost be considered a duet between Rudy Lewis and Warwick. "If I had to pick a favorite singer, it would be Dionne," stated Bacharach. "She was a dream vehicle for those years. She has such wide emotional range. She can be very understated and delicate, plus she is capable of going for the jugular. A marvelous voice. Thanks to Serene Dominic whose wonderful book Burt Bacharach: Song by Song, who details the history behind each Bacharach tune.
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| The Drifters Mexican Divorce (or When Burt Met Dionne) 1961 |
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