Dionne Warwick on Meeting Elvis for the First Time in Las Vegas: 'Oh My God, Was He Pretty'

Warwick also opened up about receiving her "first standing ovation" in an interview with 'CBS News'

Dionne Warwick was "all shook up" the first time she met Elvis.

In an interview with CBS News, the legendary singer/actress, 83, who was one of this year’s Kennedy Center honorees, opened up about her first impression of the King of Rock and Roll after meeting him in Las Vegas while Cissy Houston, her aunt and the mother of Whitney Houston, was in his backing group, the Sweet Inspirations.

"Oh my God, was he pretty!" Warwick recalled, adding: "He said, 'I'm gonna make an announcement tonight at my show that anyone who goes into a record store and they [buy] any Dionne Warwick album, they will find a photograph signed by me.'"

Warwick said that as a result, she "sold more albums in Vegas than I have ever sold."

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She also opened up about receiving her "first standing ovation," which happened when Warwick was just 6 years old when she was called up to the pulpit by her minister grandfather to sing at church.

"After I finished singing, the whole congregation stood and applauded me," she told the publication. "That was my first standing ovation."

Born into a musical family — her mothers and siblings performed as the Drinkard Sisters — she believes her future was predetermined.

"It was almost like it was preordained, that if you're in this family, this is what you're gonna do," she said.

As the "That's What Friends Are For" musician found fame, artists like Issac Hayes and Aretha Franklin began covering her older tracks. Initially, she didn't appreciate it: "No! What are you doing singing my stuff?"

But eventually, she changed her tune.

"It got to the point where I understood, or I began to understand, what a compliment that is," she said.

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Recently, Warwick opened up to PEOPLE about why she wanted her next project to be a gospel album.

"It's time. It really is. We need to get back to loving each other again. I don't know what's going on in our world right now, so much hatred, obstinance and ugliness. People are basically doing things that they feel they're entitled to do without any retribution whatsoever," she said.

The "Walk on By" artist continued: "I just feel now, we need to get back to our Bible. We need to get back to the words that are meaningful, words of encouragement, happiness. We're missing so much that we all should be looking forward to."

Warwick plans to release the LP — Songs of Inspiration — in 2024.

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