{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox album | name = Just Being Myself | type = studio | artist = Dionne Warwick | cover = Just Being Myself.jpg | alt = | released = January 1973 | recorded = | studio = HDH Sound Studios, Detroit | genre = | length = 33:33 | label = Warner Bros. | producer = Holland-Dozier-Holland | prev_title = Dionne | prev_year = 1972 | next_title = Then Came You | next_year = 1975 | misc = {{Singles | name = Dionne | type = studio | single1 = I Think You Need Love / Don't Let My Teardrops Bother You | single1date = 1973 | single2 = (I'm) Just Being Myself / You're Gonna Need Me | single2date = 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.<ref name="Billboard200"/>
==Critical reception== {{Album ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="AllMusic">{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0000405108|tab=review |label="''Just Being Myself'' > Review" |first=Tim|last=Sendra |access-date=April 27, 2021}}</ref> }} 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."<ref name="AllMusic"/>
==Track listing== All tracks produced Holland-Dozier-Holland.<ref name="liner notes">{{cite AV media notes|title=Just Being Myself|others=Dionne Warwick|year=1973|publisher=Warner Bros. Records|type=booklet}}</ref> {{Track listing | headline = Side one | title1 = You're Gonna Need Me | writer1 = {{hlist|Brian Holland|Lamont Dozier|Eddie Holland|Richard "Popcorn" Wylie}} | length1 = 4:20 | title2 = I Think You Need Love | writer2 = {{hlist|B. Holland|L. Dozier|E. Holland}} | length2 = 3:37 | title3 = You Are the Heart of Me | writer3 = {{hlist|Michael Smith|Ronald Dunbar}} | length3 = 4:14 | title4 = I Always Get Caught in the Rain | writer4 = {{hlist|Smith|Dunbar}} | length4 = 3:42 }} {{Track listing | headline = Side two | title5 = Don't Let My Teardrops Bother You | writer5 = {{hlist|B. Holland|L. Dozier|E. Holland|Wylie}} | length5 = 4:00 | title6 = (I'm) Just Being Myself | writer6 = {{hlist|B. Holland|L. Dozier|E. Holland|R. Dozier}} | length6 = 4:31 | title7 = Come Back | writer7 = {{hlist|B. Holland|Dozier|E. Holland}} | length7 = 4:30 | title8 = Don't Burn the Bridge (That Took You Across) | writer8 = {{hlist|B. Holland|Dozier|E. Holland}} | length8 = 4:24 }}
== Personnel and credits == Credits adapted from the liner notes of ''Just Being Myself''.<ref name="liner ">{{cite AV media notes |title=Just Being Myself|others=Dionne Warwick |year=1973|type=liner notes |publisher=Warner Bros. Records}}</ref>
{{div col}} *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 {{div col end}}
==Charts== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |+ Chart performance for ''Just Being Myself'' ! scope="col"| Chart (1973) ! scope="col"| Peak<br />position |- ! scope="row"| US Top LP's & Tape (''Billboard'')<ref name="Billboard200">{{cite magazine|date=March 11, 1973|title=Billboard Top LP's & Tape|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/70s/1973/Billboard%201973-03-10.pdf#page=60|magazine=Billboard|location=New York|publisher=Billboard Publications Inc|volume=85|issue=10|page=60|issn=0006-2510}}</ref> | 178 |- ! scope="row"| US Top 101 to 170 Albums (''Cash Box'')<ref>{{cite magazine|date=March 11, 1973|title=Cash Box Top 101 to 170 Albums|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1973/Cash-Box-1973-03-10.pdf#page=36|magazine=Cash Box|location=New York|publisher=The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc.|volume=XXXIV|issue=38|page=36|issn=0008-7289}}</ref> | 108 |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Discogs master|158225|Just Being Myself}} {{Dionne Warwick}} {{Authority control}}
Category:Dionne Warwick albums Category:1973 albums Category:albums arranged by Gene Page Category:albums produced by Brian Holland Category:albums produced by Lamont Dozier Category:Albums produced by Eddie Holland