Jazz Articles about Warren Wiebe

Warren Wiebe: Original Demos

by Chris M. Slawecki
January 17, 2019

From the accounts of nearly everyone who heard him, Warren Wiebe was “a singer's singer." After kicking around in several bands between his native San Diego and Los Angeles, songwriters Burt Bacharach and David Foster ran across Wiebe's pure tone and apparently effortless range, and Wiebe became the go-to demo singer for many of southern California's most successful songwriters. “We were kind of like Edger Bergin and Charlie McCarthy, only I was the dummy and Warren made me come alive ...