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"Déjà Vu"
Single by Dionne Warwick
from the album Dionne
B-side"All the Time"
ReleasedNovember 1979
Genre
Length5:06 (CD version)
4:06 (album version)
3:40 (single edit)
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Barry Manilow
Dionne Warwick singles chronology
" I'll Never Love This Way Again"
(1979) 		"Déjà Vu"
(1979) 		" After You"
(1980)

"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.

Background

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]

Chart performance

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.

Charts

Other versions

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]

See also

References

  1. ^ Grein, Paul (4 August 1979). "Warwick Comeback on Records Indicating 'People Still Care'". Billboard. p. 32.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Record Research. p. 610.
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–2001. Record Research. p. 254.
  4. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN  0-646-11917-6.
  5. ^ "Item". Bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  6. ^ " Dionne Warwick – Déjà Vu". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved April 15, 2021.
  7. ^ "Dionne Warwick Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved April 15, 2021.
  8. ^ "Dionne Warwick Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved April 15, 2021.
  9. ^ "Dionne Warwick Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved April 15, 2021.
  10. ^ "Top 100 1980-02-16". Cashbox Magazine. Retrieved 2015-01-03.
  11. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1980/Top 100 Songs of 1980". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  12. ^ "Top 100 Year End Charts: 1980". Cashbox Magazine. Archived from the original on 2012-09-15. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
  13. ^ "'Prez' and Accounted for - the Washington Post". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2019-08-15. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  14. ^ Pittsburgh Press 10 August 1980 "'No Night' Newest Hit For Dionne" by Lee W. Collins p.J-7
  15. ^ "Trudy Kerr - Deja Vu: Songs from My Past | Review | The Jazz Mann". Thejazzmann.com. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  16. ^ "Peter White – Playin' Favorites (2006, CD)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
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