The Magic of Believing
Dionne was so hot on the pop charts in 1968 that she could afford to do such an avowedly noncommercial project as this tribute to her gospel roots! And those roots were deep; her mother, Lee Warrick, was a founding member of the Drinkard Singers, a gospel group that also included Cissy Houston (mother of Whitney), and Dionne got her start singing in a gospel group called the Gospelaires along with her sister Dee Dee.