"Déjà Vu" | ||||
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Single by Dionne Warwick | ||||
from the album Dionne | ||||
B-side | "All the Time" | |||
Released | November 1979 | |||
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Length | 5:06 (CD version) 4:06 (album version) 3:40 (single edit) | |||
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Producer(s) | Barry Manilow | |||
Dionne Warwick singles chronology | ||||
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"Déjà Vu" is a hit 1979 ballad written by Isaac Hayes with lyricist Adrienne Anderson, recorded by Dionne Warwick for her album Dionne which Barry Manilow produced. The song won Warwick a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance at the 22nd Grammy Awards.
Isaac Hayes had written the tune for "Déjà Vu" in 1977 while touring with Warwick on the A Man and a Woman Tour: Warwick would recall then hearing Hayes play the tune – which he had entitled "Déjà Vu" without writing lyrics – and as she and Barry Manilow began preparing for the January 1979 recording sessions for the Dionne album, Warwick solicited a tape of "Déjà Vu" from Hayes to play for Manilow, who recruited his own regular lyricist Adrienne Anderson to write the words. [1]
Issued in November 1979 as the album's second single – following up Warwick's top ten comeback hit " I'll Never Love This Way Again" – "Déjà Vu" rose to number 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100, number 25 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, [2] and number one on the Adult Contemporary chart in early 1980. [3] "Déjà Vu" was Warwick's fifth and last Top 40 single of her 1970s period and her second top 40 single following the release of " I'll Never Love This Way Again" in the five years since her number-one single, " Then Came You", featuring The Spinners.
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The song has also been recorded by Ethel Ennis (album Live at the Maryland Inn/ 1980), [13] Jack Jones (album Don't Stop Now/ 1980), [14] Trudy Kerr (album Déjà Vu: Songs From My Past/ 2008), [15] and by guitarist Peter White (album Playin' Favorites/ 2006) with vocalist Kiki Ebsen. [16]