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Just Being Myself
Just Being Myself
Studio album by Dionne Warwick
Released	January 1973
Studio	HDH Sound Studios, Detroit
Length	33:33
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Holland-Dozier-Holland
Dionne Warwick chronology
Singles from Dionne
	"I Think You Need Love / Don't Let My Teardrops Bother You"; Released: 1973; "(I'm) Just Being Myself / You're Gonna Need Me"; Released: 1973;

Just Being Myself is a studio album by American singer Dionne Warwick. It was released by Warner Bros. Records in 1973 in the United States. Her second album with the label, Just Being Myself marked a departure for Warwick who teamed up with Holland-Dozier-Holland to work on the majority of the album after her regular collaborators Burt Bacharach and Hal David had split the year before. The album peaked at number 178 on the US Billboard 200.^[1]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

AllMusic editor Tim Sendra wrote that "the album's title is somewhat ironic because Holland, Dozier and Holland removed Warwick from the creative process, basically asking her to record her vocals over previously recorded backing tracks. Not that most of what they came up with was too far from what she had been recording before since the bulk of the record is made up of lush, orchestrated ballads [...] Just Being Myself is a very interesting and successful record that shows Warwick could be a convincing soul singer and despite her qualms, could succeed, artistically anyway."^[2]

Track listing

All tracks produced Holland-Dozier-Holland.^[3]

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"You're Gonna Need Me"	Brian Holland Lamont Dozier Eddie Holland Richard "Popcorn" Wylie	4:20
2.	"I Think You Need Love"	B. Holland L. Dozier E. Holland	3:37
3.	"You Are the Heart of Me"	Michael Smith Ronald Dunbar	4:14
4.	"I Always Get Caught in the Rain"	Smith Dunbar	3:42

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
5.	"Don't Let My Teardrops Bother You"	B. Holland L. Dozier E. Holland Wylie	4:00
6.	"(I'm) Just Being Myself"	B. Holland L. Dozier E. Holland R. Dozier	4:31
7.	"Come Back"	B. Holland Dozier E. Holland	4:30
8.	"Don't Burn the Bridge (That Took You Across)"	B. Holland Dozier E. Holland	4:24

Personnel and credits

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Just Being Myself.^[4]

McKinley Jackson – arrangements
Jerry Hall – recording, mixing
Brian Holland – recording, mixing
Lawrence Horn – recording, mixing
Gene Page – arrangements
Ed Thrasher – photography
Barney Perkins – recording, mixing
Dionne Warwick – vocals

Charts

Chart performance for *Just Being Myself*
Chart (1973)	Peak position
US Top LP's & Tape (Billboard)^[1]	178
US Top 101 to 170 Albums (Cash Box)^[5]	108

References

^ ^a ^b "Billboard Top LP's & Tape" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 85, no. 10. New York: Billboard Publications Inc. March 11, 1973. p. 60. ISSN 0006-2510.
^ ^a ^b Sendra, Tim. "Just Being Myself > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
^ Just Being Myself (booklet). Dionne Warwick. Warner Bros. Records. 1973.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^ Just Being Myself (liner notes). Dionne Warwick. Warner Bros. Records. 1973.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^ "Cash Box Top 101 to 170 Albums" (PDF). Cash Box. Vol. XXXIV, no. 38. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc. March 11, 1973. p. 36. ISSN 0008-7289.