Walk On By

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Written by: Burt Bacharach, Hal David
Produced by: Bacharach, David
Released: April '64 on Scepter
Charts: 13 weeks
Top spot: No. 6

This downcast R&B ballad set to a bossa-nova beat was originally relegated to the B side of "Any Old Time of the Day." But New York DJ Murray the K thought better of it and asked listeners to vote about the single's two sides. The winning cut scaled the charts during the heady exuberance of Beatlemania, which provided an unwitting foil for the understated perseverance of "Walk On By." "I didn't get the guy very often in those days," Warwick said.

Appears on: The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits (Rhino)

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