Where My Lips Have Been Explained

Where My Lips Have Been
Cover:Where My Lips Have Been.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Dionne Warwick
Album:Friends Can Be Lovers
Released:June 1993
Length:4:35
Label:Arista
Producer:Barry Eastmond
Chronology:Dionne Warwick
Prev Title:Sunny Weather Love
Prev Year:1993
Next Title:Friends Can Be Lovers
Next Year:1993

"Where My Lips Have Been" is a song recorded by American singer Dionne Warwick. It was written by Robert Charles Burns, Sandy Knox, and Don Huber for her studio album Friends Can Be Lovers (1993), while production was helmed by Barry Eastmond. The sensual, downtempo ballad was released as the album's second single in 1993, and peaked at number 95 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.

Background

"Where My Lips Have Been" was written by Robert Charles Burns, Sandy Knox, and Don Huber and produced by Barry Eastmond for Warwick's tenth album with Arista Records, Friends Can Be Lovers (1993). The sensual, downtempo ballad features Everette Harp on the saxophone. In her 2011 autobiography My Life, As I See It, Warwick revealed her discontent with the song and its parent album, writing: "I hated this project. I did not feel the songs or production met the standards I was accustomed to. The one song that I still feel uncomfortable even mentioning is "Where My Lips Have Been." It was a lot – not a little – outside of the messages I was known to deliver lyrically, and I think it tested me to the brink."[1]

Credits and personnel

Credits lifted from the liner notes of Friends Can Be Lovers.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Warwick. Dionne. David. Freeman Wooley . 2011. My Life, as I See It – An Autobiography. Atria Books. 978-1439171356.
  2. Friends Can Be Lovers. Dionne Warwick. 1993. Arista Records. booklet.