Dionne Warwick | SOLID GOLD | “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” (10/25/1980) *BETTER QUALITY* 

Perfect; Dionne Warwick is a U.S. treasure. I grew up as a boy listening to her music in the 60's. I am still listening to this song, July 14, 2023.

pop perfection

This song was popular when my family moved to San Jose. It was a great place to grow up. Middle class families really could afford a home there. I left in the 1980s. Never regretted it. San Jose and the entire Bay Area is nothing like it was on the early 1970s. There are the very wealthy and the very poor. Zero middle class. This song is a fond reminder of what San Jose once was.

Thanks for uploading all of these. Dionne's voice was even better in the early '80s than when she first recorded these.

San Jose, California is the second or third largest city by way of population in California. I think that they can credit Dionne Warwick with helping to boost their population with this one little song. I know that she was initially not inclined to record this song, according to interviews, but she did in 1968, and a song about San Jose became the little song that could. It is a musical gift that keeps on giving. In this 1980 "Solid Gold" performance, she certainly spun it into gold...Solid Gold. The artist-audience interaction was fantastic and full of positive energy.🙂 In this world of often an overload of negativity, positive energy helps make it a much better world. Thanks, Michael, for your contributions to that positive vibe.

Makes me want to ride in my car to San Jose and play this over and over while driving

I love this Queen 💞

Sounds awesome

Inspirational song.👍

...I remember watching this program

Ppl don’t know how hard it is to sing this song

San Jose’s population was only around 200k when this song was composed.

Love.

Was touring SJSU with my parents and this played on the radio.? Fate ?

So disheartening to know that to this day Dionne Warwick hates this song, the 1968 gem that earned her the well-deserved first Grammy Award. She has talked derisively about the song in both her book (at length) and in interviews, as if it was “beneath her lyrically” to record it. “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.. NO!”, she told one reporter from CBS. What an attitude.

When was the official date that Lionel left the Commodores, Michael?

song starts at 0:40

Wait.. is that Lionel Richie?

And of course, Lionel Ritchie just HAD to be the center of attention. SMH...