''Finder of Lost Loves'' is a

studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...

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

Arista Records Arista Records () is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. The label was previously handled by BMG Entertainmen ...

on January 24, 1985 in the United States. Warwick worked with

Richard Landis Richard Landis is an American studio musician, recording artist, singer/songwriter, and music producer. He has over 40 years of professional credits and chart success including a share of the 1994 CMA award for Album of the Year. At years end, ...

Barry Manilow Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus; June 17, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter with a career that spans seven decades. His hit recordings include "Could It Be Magic", " Somewhere Down the Road", " Mandy", "I Write the Songs", " Can ...

, and

Stevie Wonder Stevland Hardaway Morris ( Judkins; May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, who is credited as a pioneer and influence by musicians across a range of genres that include rhythm and blues, Pop musi ...

on the majority of the album, though she also reunited with

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 ...

for the first time in over a decade. The album includes a cover of the

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song " Run to Me" performed as a duet with Manilow as well as two duets with Wonder, which had previously been released on Wonder's

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to '' The Woman in Red''. ''Finder of Lost Loves'' peaked at number 106 on the US ''Billboard'' 200 chart.

Track listing

Personnel and credits

Musicians * Dionne Warwick – lead vocals, backing vocals (7) *

Artie Butler Arthur Butler (born December 2, 1942) is an American composer, arranger, songwriter, and session musician. In a long career, he has been involved in numerous hit records and other recordings, and has been awarded over 60 gold and platinum albums ...

– acoustic piano (1), orchestrations (1, 3, 5, 10), arrangements (1, 3, 5, 10) *

– arrangements (1, 3, 5, 10), acoustic piano (3, 8, 10), lead and backing vocals (3), rhythm track arrangements (7), synthesizers (8) *

Greg Phillinganes Gregory Arthur Phillinganes (born May 12, 1956) is an American keyboardist, singer-songwriter, and musical director based in Los Angeles, California. A prolific session musician, Phillinganes has contributed the role of keyboards to numerous alb ...

–

Fender Rhodes The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, th ...

(1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10), acoustic piano (4) * Robbie Buchanan – Fender Rhodes (2), synthesizers (4) *

John Philip Shenale John Philip Shenale (often mentioned as Phil Shenale) is a Canadian composer, arranger, musician and producer based in Los Angeles. Background Shenale was born in Canada in 1951. His family relocated to the United States in the late-1950s ...

– synthesizer programming (2) *

– acoustic piano (6, 9), synthesizers (6, 9),

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(6), harmonica (6), lead vocals (6, 9) * Keith Harris – synthesizer programming (4, 9) * Abdoulaye Soumare – additional programming (4, 9) *

Randy Kerber Randy Kerber (born September 25, 1958) is an American composer, orchestrator and keyboard player, who has had a prolific career in the world of cinema.SeRandy Kerberat the IMDb Kerber was born in Encino, California. He began his first national t ...

– synthesizers (7) * Gary Pickus – synthesizers (7), rhythm track arrangements (7) * Isaiah Sanders – synthesizers (9) *

Charles Fearing Raydio is an American funk and R&B vocal group formed in 1977 by Ray Parker Jr., with Vincent Bonham, Jerry Knight, and Arnell Carmichael. Career 1970s and Raydio After securing a record deal, the group scored their first big hit in early 1978 ...

– guitar (1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10) *

Paul Jackson Jr. Paul Milton Jackson Jr. (born December 30, 1959) is an American fusion/urban jazz composer, arranger, producer and guitarist. He was born and raised in Los Angeles. Jackson knew by the age of fifteen that he wanted to become a professional musi ...

– guitar (2) *

Dean Parks Weldon Dean Parks (born December 6, 1946) is an American session guitarist and record producer from Fort Worth, Texas. Albums Parks was member of the North Texas State One O'clock Lab Band before moving to Los Angeles to work with Sonny and Cher ...

– guitar (4) * Tim May – guitar (7) *

Neil Stubenhaus Neil Stubenhaus is an American bass guitarist. Career He started his musical training playing drums and switched to bass guitar at the age of 12. He studied at the Berklee College of Music where he graduated in 1975. After graduation, he was rec ...

– bass (1, 2, 4, 7) *

Nathan East Nathan Harrell East (born December 8, 1955) is an American jazz, R&B, and rock bass player and vocalist. With more than 2,000 recordings, East is one of the most recorded bass players in the history of music. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degr ...

– bass (3, 5, 8, 10) *

Nathan Watts Nathan or Natan may refer to: People *Nathan (given name), including a list of people and characters with this name *Nathan (surname) *Nathan (prophet), a person in the Hebrew Bible *Nathan (son of David), biblical figure, son of King David and ...

– bass (6, 9) *

Ed Greene Ed Greene is an American drummer and session musician. In 1971 he recorded with Donald Byrd (''Ethiopian Knights'', 1972), together with Thurman Green, Harold Land, Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Sample, Bobbye Porter Hall, David T. Walker, and Wilton ...

– drums (1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10) *

John Robinson John Robinson may refer to: Academics *John Thomas Romney Robinson (1792–1882), Irish astronomer and physicist * John J. Robinson (1918–1996), historian and author of ''Born in Blood'' *John Talbot Robinson (1923–2001), paleontologist *John ...

– drums (2) *

Carlos Vega Carlos Vega (December 7, 1956 – April 7, 1998) was a Cuban-born Los Angeles-based session drummer best known for his performances with James Taylor. As a part of the L.A. studio scene from the late 1970s through the 1990s, Vega contributed to ...

– drums (4) * James Allen – drums (6, 9) * Alan Estes – percussion (1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10) *

Bob Malach Bob Malach (born August 23, 1954) is an American jazz saxophonist. Malach learned several reed instruments in his youth, and played with Philadelphia soul bands such as The Stylistics and The O'Jays while still a teenager. He played in the big b ...

– saxophone (9) *

Charles Calello Charles Calello (born August 24, 1938) is an American arranger, composer, conductor, record producer, and singer born in Newark, New Jersey. Calello attended Newark Arts High School and the Manhattan School of Music, in New York City. His track r ...

– arrangements (2) * Endre Granat – concertmaster (4) *

Jeremy Lubbock Jeremy Michael Lubbock (4 June 1931 – 29 January 2021) was a Grammy-winning English pianist, conductor, orchestrator, music producer, arranger, composer, and songwriter. Life and career Born in Berkshire, he learned piano as a child, and ...

– string arrangements (6) * Greg Poree – string arrangements (9) * Tommy Funderburk – backing vocals (1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10) * Tom Kelly – backing vocals (1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10) *

Richard Page Richard Lewis Page (born 22 February 1941) is a former Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and from December 1979 to 2005. Early life Born the son of Victor Charles Page, he went to the independent Hu ...

– backing vocals (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10) *

Jim Haas James Edwin Haas was an American singer who performed vocals for many artists including Andy Williams, Neil Diamond, Jackson Browne, David Cassidy, Leif Garrett, Pink Floyd, and Barry Manilow. Leif Garrett, after Haas' death, explained that in ...

– backing vocals (2) * John Joyce – backing vocals (2) *

Glenn Jones Glenn Jones (born September 27, 1962 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American R&B/soul singer. He is best known for his songs "Show Me", "We've Only Just Begun (The Romance Is Not Over)" and "Here I Go Again" which reached No. 1 on the Billboa ...

– lead vocals (4) * Windy Barnes – backing vocals (9) * Alex Brown – backing vocals (9) * Lynn Davis – backing vocals (9) * Susaye Greene – backing vocals (9) Production * Producers – Barry Manilow (Tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 8 & 10); Richard Landis (Track 2); Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager (Track 4); Stevie Wonder (Tracks 6 & 9). * Associate Producer on Tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 8 & 10 – Michael DeLugg * Production Coordinator on Track 2 – Kathy Anaya * Music Coordinator on Track 4 – Frank DeCaro * Engineers – Michael DeLugg (Tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 8 & 10); David Cole (Track 2); John Guess (Track 4); Gary Olazabal (Tracks 6 & 9). * Assistant Engineers – Bill Jackson and Tom Nist (Tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 8 & 10); Steve Schmitt (Track 4); Bob Harlan (Tracks 6 & 9). * Recorded at

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and

Capitol Studios Capitol Studios are recording studios located at the landmark Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood, California. The studios, which opened in 1956, were initially the primary recording studios for the American record label Capitol Records. While t ...

(Hollywood, California); Lion Share Recording Studio (Los Angeles, California). * Mixed at

The Village Recorder The Village (also known as Village Recorders, or the Village Recorder) is a recording studio located at 1616 Butler Avenue in West Los Angeles, California. History The building was built by the Freemasons in 1922 and was originally a Masonic t ...

(Los Angeles, California). * Project Coordinator – Eric Borenstein * Art Direction – Donn Davenport * Photography – Harry Langdon * Assistant to Barry Manilow – Marc Hulett

Charts

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External links

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