Heartbreaker (Dionne Warwick song)
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"Heartbreaker" is a 1982 single released by American pop and soul singer Dionne Warwick. The song was written by The Bee Gees' Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb; their distinctive backing vocals being heard on the chorus. The unique brothers' sound can also be recognized in the syncopated rhythm of drums programming, the bright strings unisons and the powerful synthetizer brass sections.
The song peaked at #10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1983, but was a #1 Adult Contemporary hit. In the UK, the track reached #2, thus continuing Warwick's successful comeback after a tepid period with Warner Bros. Records.
Warwick admitted in The Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits by Wesley Hyatt that she was not fond of "Heartbreaker" (regarding the song's international popularity, she quipped, "I cried all the way to the bank"), but recorded it because she trusted the Bee Gees' judgment that it would be a hit: it turned out to be Warwick's most successful solo hit of the 1980s.