Artist · chart history
Dionne Warwick
Solo artist East Orange United States
Dionne Warwick is an artist from East Orange. Dionne Warwick has 4 chart appearances on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Walk on By”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #396. The station that charted Dionne Warwick most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 2 appearances.
Dionne Warwick went back to her own songbook on Dionne Sings Dionne in 1998, and her new "Walk on By" is a reminder of how deep that songbook runs. Born in East Orange, New Jersey, in 1940, she started out as a teenager singing in a vocal group called the Gospelaires, then went solo in 1962 and hooked up with the writing team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David for a string of sleek, sophisticated pop-soul singles on Scepter: "Don't Make Me Over", "Anyone Who Had a Heart", "Walk on By", "Alfie", "I Say a Little Prayer" and the Grammy winner "Do You Know the Way to San Jose".
A falling-out with Bacharach and David and a lean spell at Warner Bros. slowed her down, but Clive Davis brought her back at Arista with "I'll Never Love This Way Again", "Heartbreaker" and "That's What Friends Are For". Her voice, cool and controlled even when the songs ache, carried 56 singles onto the Hot 100 between 1962 and 1998, 12 of them into the top ten.
The honors have kept coming: six competitive Grammys, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2023 and, in 2024, a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for Musical Excellence.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Dionne Warwick on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walk on By | 3 | #396 | – | – | |
| 2 | Do You Know The Way To San Jose? | 1 | #541 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 541 | Do You Know The Way To San Jose? | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places |
| 2022 | 819 | Walk on By | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 |
| 2020 | 948 | Walk on By | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2004 | 396 | Walk on By | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) |
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