''Now'' (sometimes also ''Now: A Celebratory 50th Anniversary Album'') is a studio album by American singer

Dionne Warwick Marie Dionne Warwick (; born December 12, 1940) is an American singer, actress, and television host. Warwick ranks among the 40 biggest U.S. hit makers between 1955 and 1999, based on her chart history on ''Billboards Hot 100 pop singles cha ...

. It was released by H&I Music Productions on November 6, 2012 in the United States. Released to mark Warwick's 50th anniversary as a recording artist, the album is a retrospective collection of new recordings of her

Burt Bacharach Burt Freeman Bacharach ( ; born May 12, 1928) is an American composer, songwriter, record producer and pianist who composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Gra ...

and Hal David classics as well as four new tracks. ''Now'' peaked at number 57 on the

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and received a

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nomination in the

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category in 2014.

Critical reception

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editor Mark Deming wrote that "the album is lushly produced by

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, with arrangements that suggest smooth jazz rather than the adult but AM-friendly pop of Warwick's heyday, and the accompaniment, expert as it may be, tends to buff down the emotional edges that made these songs so satisfying, and blunting their melodic ingenuity. The new songs are serviceable, but they don't match the high standard of the classics featured elsewhere on the album; however, Warwick is at her best on the fresher material, where she shows she's still a song stylist of considerable talent and keen instincts."

Track listing

All tracks produced by

. All tracks written by

and Hal David, except where noted.

Charts

Release history

References

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