( There 's ) Always Something There to Remind Me - wikipedia ( There 's ) Always Something There to Remind Me For the song by the Housemartins, see There Is Always Something There to Remind Me. `` ( There 's ) Always Something There to Remind Me '' Single by Lou Johnson B - side `` Would n't That Be Something '' Released 1964 Format 7 '' single Genre Pop, soul Length 2 : 58 Label Big Hill Songwriter ( s ) Burt Bacharach, Hal David Producer ( s ) Burt Bacharach Lou Johnson singles chronology `` Reach Out for Me '' ( 1963 ) `` ( There 's ) Always Something There to Remind Me '' ( 1964 ) `` Kentucky Bluebird ( Message To Martha ) '' ( 1964 ) `` Reach Out for Me '' ( 1963 ) `` ( There 's ) Always Something There to Remind Me '' ( 1964 ) `` Kentucky Bluebird ( Message To Martha ) '' ( 1964 ) `` ( There 's ) Always Something There to Remind Me '' Single by Sandie Shaw B - side `` Do n't You Know '' Released 1964 Format 7 '' single Recorded 1964 Genre Pop Length 2 : 42 Label Pye, Reprise ( US ) Songwriter ( s ) Burt Bacharach, Hal David Producer ( s ) Tony Hatch Sandie Shaw singles chronology `` As Long As You 're Happy Baby '' ( 1964 ) `` ( There 's ) Always Something There to Remind Me '' ( 1964 ) `` I 'd Be Far Better Off Without You '' ( 1964 ) `` As Long As You 're Happy Baby '' ( 1964 ) `` ( There 's ) Always Something There to Remind Me '' ( 1964 ) `` I 'd Be Far Better Off Without You '' ( 1964 ) `` Always Something There to Remind Me '' Single by R.B. Greaves from the album R.B. Greaves B - side `` Oh When I Was a Boy '' Released 1969 Format 7 '' single Recorded 1969 Genre Pop Length 3 : 09 Label Atco Songwriter ( s ) Burt Bacharach, Hal David Producer ( s ) Ahmet Ertegun, Jackson Howe R.B. Greaves singles chronology `` Take a Letter Maria '' ( 1969 ) `` Always Something There to Remind Me '' ( 1969 ) `` Fire & Rain '' ( 1970 ) `` Take a Letter Maria '' ( 1969 ) `` Always Something There to Remind Me '' ( 1969 ) `` Fire & Rain '' ( 1970 ) `` Always Something There to Remind Me '' Single by Naked Eyes from the album Burning Bridges B - side `` The Time Is Now '' Released January 1983 Format 45 Recorded September 1982 Genre New wave, synthpop Length 3 : 18 3 : 40 ( 7 '' & LP ) Label EMI EMI America Records ( North America ) Songwriter ( s ) Burt Bacharach, Hal David Producer ( s ) Tony Mansfield Naked Eyes singles chronology `` Always Something There to Remind Me '' ( 1983 ) `` Voices In My Head '' ( 1983 ) `` Always Something There to Remind Me '' ( 1983 ) `` Voices In My Head '' ( 1983 ) `` Always ( Something There to Remind Me ) '' Single by Tin Tin Out featuring Espiritu from the album Always B - side `` Remix '' Released 1995 Format 12 '' single CD single Genre House Length 3 : 29 ( Original Edit ) 7 : 02 ( Original Mix ) Label WEA Songwriter ( s ) Burt Bacharach Hal David Producer ( s ) Darren Stokes Lindsay Edwards Tin Tin Out featuring Espiritu singles chronology `` Always ( Something There to Remind Me ) '' ( 1995 ) `` Here 's Where the Story Ends '' ( 1998 ) `` Always ( Something There to Remind Me ) '' ( 1995 ) `` Here 's Where the Story Ends '' ( 1998 ) Music video `` Always ( Something There to Remind Me ) '' on YouTube `` ( There 's ) Always Something There to Remind Me '' is a song written in the 1960s by songwriting team Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Contents 1 Lyrics 2 First charting versions 3 Chart history ( Sandie Shaw ) 4 Naked Eyes version 4.1 Chart history 4.1. 1 Weekly charts 4.1. 2 Year - end charts 5 Tin Tin Out featuring Espiritu version 5.1 Critical reception 5.2 Chart history 5.2. 1 Weekly charts 6 Other versions 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External links Lyrics The lyrics are from the point of view of a man who has just broken up with his lover. He would prefer to forget about her, but everywhere he goes there is always something there to remind him. First charting versions Originally recorded as a demo by Dionne Warwick in 1963, `` ( There 's ) Always Something There to Remind Me '' first charted for Lou Johnson whose version reached # 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1964. British impresario Eve Taylor heard Johnson 's version while on a US visit scouting for material for her recent discovery Sandie Shaw, who consequently covered the song for the UK market. Rush - released in September 1964, the song was premiered by Shaw with a performance on Ready Steady Go !, the pop music TV program. Shaw 's version reached # 1 on the UK charts in three weeks, spending three weeks at # 1 in November 1964, and that same month it debuted on the Billboard Hot 100. However, despite reaching the Top Ten in some markets including Detroit and Miami Shaw 's version failed to best the US showing of the Lou Johnson original ; the Hot 100 peak of Shaw 's version was # 52. A # 1 hit in Canada and South Africa, Shaw 's version of ``... Always Something There to Remind Me '' was also a hit in Australia ( # 16 ), Ireland ( # 7 ) and the Netherlands ( # 10 ), the track 's success in the last territory not precluding hit status for the Dutch rendering by Edwin Rutten ( nl ) entitled `` Ik moet altijd weer opnieuw aan je denken '' ( # 12 ). Shaw herself recorded ``... Always Something There to Remind Me '' in French, as `` Toujours un coin qui me rappelle '', with lyrics by Ralph Bernet ( fr ), which reached # 19 in France. A cover by Eddy Mitchell was more successful, reaching # 2 in France in April 1965 and also reaching # 3 on Belgium 's French - language chart. Shaw made a bid for a German hit as well, rendering ``... Always Something There to Remind Me '' as `` Einmal glücklich sein wie die ander'n ''. It was not a success. Chart history ( Sandie Shaw ) English version Chart ( 1964 - 65 ) Peak position Australia 16 Canada The Netherlands 10 Ireland 7 New Zealand ( Lever ) 6 South Africa UK U.S. Billboard Hot 100 52 U.S. Cash Box Top 100 49 French version Chart ( 1965 ) Peak position Belgium France Dionne Warwick re-recorded `` ( There 's ) Always Something There to Remind Me '' on 13 April 1967 in the same session which produced her Top 40 hit `` The Windows of the World '', and it was on the July 1967 album release The Windows of the World that the first - named track was debuted. Warwick 's `` ( There 's ) Always Something There to Remind Me '' had a belated single release in August 1968 as the intended B - side of the Top 40 hit `` Who Is Gonna Love Me '' ; the first - named track received sufficient airplay to reach # 65 on the Hot 100. `` ( There 's ) Always Something There to Remind Me '' -- as `` Always Something There to Remind Me '' -- entered the US Top 40 for the first time via a version by R.B. Greaves which reached # 27 in February 1970. Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in 1969, with production by Ahmet Ertegun and Jackson Howe, Greaves ' version was also a # 3 Easy Listening hit. Naked Eyes version Twenty years after its composition, `` Always Something There to Remind Me '' ( so titled ) reached the US Top Twenty for the first time via a synthpop reinvention of the song by Naked Eyes which reached the Top Ten on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1983. Vocalist Pete Byrne and keyboardist Rob Fisher first cut `` Always Something There to Remind Me '' as one of a number of demos recorded in Bristol upon forming the duo later known as Naked Eyes in early 1982. Byrne would recall : `` I had always loved ( the ) song ( '' Always Something There to Remind Me `` ), so we called a friend who had the record, he read the lyric over the phone and we put it together from memory. '' On the strength of the demos cut in Bristol Byrne and Fisher were signed to EMI Records in May 1982 and the track `` Always Something There to Remind Me '' was cut 1 September 1982 in a session at Abbey Road Studios produced by Tony Mansfield. Byrne would recall : `` The record was recorded at Abbey Road, and we were invited to a party downstairs, with Paul McCartney and many other stars... When we returned upstairs to the studio around 1 a.m., I decided to have a go at the vocal, It was the first time I have ever recorded a vocal in one take ''. Released in the US in January 1983, Naked Eyes ' `` Always Something There to Remind Me '' gradually gained attention entering the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1983 to peak at # 8 that June. The cachet of entering the US Top Ten allowed the single, previously overlooked in its performers ' United Kingdom homeland, to make a July 1983 UK chart debut, although it only rose to # 59. `` Always Something There to Remind Me '' did afford Naked Eyes ' Top 10 success in other countries besides the United States : Australia ( # 7 ), Canada ( # 9 ) and New Zealand ( # 2 ). In Brazil, the song was included on the international soundtrack of the soap opera `` Guerra dos Sexos / War Of the Sexes '' in 1983. Naked Eyes re-recorded the song as an acoustic version for the 2007 album Fumbling with the Covers. In the Philippines, the song was one of the most popular singles released in 1983. Naked Eyes ' version appears in a 2017 commercial for T - Mobile. Chart history Weekly charts Chart ( 1983 ) Peak position Australia KMR 7 Canada RPM Top Singles 9 New Zealand UK ( OCC ) 59 US Billboard Hot 100 8 US Billboard Adult Contemporary 31 US Billboard Dance / Disco 37 US Cash Box Top 100 7 Year - end charts Chart ( 1983 ) Rank Australia 42 Canada 60 New Zealand 21 US Billboard Hot 100 46 US Cash Box 50 Tin tin out featuring Espiritu version English electronic music duo comprising Darren Stokes and Lindsay Edward recorded a house cover of the song titled `` Always ( Something There to Remind Me ) '' in 1995. It features vocals by singer Espiritu and went to # 14 on the UK Singles Chart and # 1 on the UK Dance Singles Chart. Critical reception Music & Media wrote about the song : `` The first thing she reminds you of is all the previous versions of this Burt Bacharach & Hal David song. Spirited and dancey as it is, it does n't make a poor figure at all. '' Chart history Weekly charts Chart ( 1995 ) Peak position Europe ( Eurochart Hot 100 ) 42 Ireland ( IRMA ) 28 Scotland ( Official Charts Company ) 16 UK Singles ( Official Charts Company ) 14 UK Dance ( Official Charts Company ) Other versions This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( December 2013 ) Other artists who have recorded this song include Viola Wills, Patti LaBelle and The Bluebelles, Julius Wechter and the Baja Marimba Band, Braid, Lou Christie, José Feliciano, Wayne Fontana, The Four Seasons, the Hippos, Jay and the Americans, La Lupe, Brenda Lee, Peggy Lee, Jim O'Rourke and Thurston Moore, Martha and the Vandellas, Johnny Mathis, Ted Neeley, Don Williams ( when part of the Pozo - Seco Singers ), Delroy Wilson, Blue Swede, and Dionne Warwick. Michael McDonald made his recording debut singing lead vocal on a 1968 single version by the Del - Rays. Sandie Shaw re-recorded the song in 1985 for the soundtrack of the movie Letter to Brezhnev. In 1965, Percy Faith and his orchestra released an album titled Percy Faith Plays Latin Themes for Young Lovers that included an `` easy listening '' instrumental version of this song. In 1971, The Carpenters released an album titled Carpenters that has a `` Bacharach / David Medley '' which includes `` ( There 's ) Always Something There to Remind Me ''. Preceded by `` Oh, Pretty Woman '' by Roy Orbison UK number - one single ( Sandie Shaw version ) 22 October 1964 ( 3 weeks ) Succeeded by `` Oh, Pretty Woman '' by Roy Orbison Preceded by `` Mr. Lonely '' by Bobby Vinton Canadian RPM number - one single ( Sandie Shaw version ) 21 December 1964 ( 1 week ) Succeeded by `` I Feel Fine '' by The Beatles References Jump up ^ Lou Johnson 's charting singles Retrieved December 7, 2011. Jump up ^ Tim Warden. `` ARSA Sandie Shaw ( There 's ) Always Something There To Remind Me ''. Las-solanas.com. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 2011 - 08 - 17. Jump up ^ Sandie Shaw 's charting singles Retrieved December 7, 2011. Jump up ^ `` Single Top 100 page for Always Something There To Remind Me ''. Retrieved 2013 - 09 - 11. Jump up ^ Flavour of New Zealand, 3 December 1964 Jump up ^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. ( November 14, 1964 ). Billboard. Billboard Magazine. p. 34. ISSN 0006 - 2510. Retrieved November 9, 2013. Jump up ^ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, December 26, 1964 Jump up ^ Dionne Warwick 's charting singles Retrieved December 7, 2011. Jump up ^ R.B. Greaves ' charting singles Retrieved December 7, 2011. ^ Jump up to : `` Naked Eyes interview ''. Discog.info. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 2011 - 08 - 17. Jump up ^ Naked Eyes ' charting singles Retrieved December 7, 2011. ^ Jump up to : Kent, David ( 1993 ). Australian Chart Book 1970 -- 1992. St Ives, N.S.W : Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0 - 646 - 11917 - 6. Jump up ^ Joel Whitburn 's Top Pop Singles 1955 - 1990 - ISBN 0 - 89820 - 089 - X Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 1993 ). Top Adult Contemporary : 1961 -- 1993. Record Research. p. 171. Jump up ^ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, July 2, 1983 Jump up ^ `` Top 100 Singles of 1983 -- Volume 39, No. 17, December 24 1983 ''. RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved November 19, 2017. Jump up ^ `` End of Year Charts 1983 ''. Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved November 19, 2017. Jump up ^ Musicoutfitters.com Jump up ^ Cash Box Year - End Charts : Top 100 Pop Singles, December 31, 1983 Jump up ^ `` New Releases : Singles '' ( PDF ). Music & Media. October 22, 1994. Retrieved April 10, 2018. Jump up ^ `` Eurochart Hot 100 Singles '' ( PDF ). Music & Media. April 1, 1995. Retrieved April 9, 2018. Jump up ^ ( 1 ), José Feliciano -- Feliciano ! Discogs album summary, Retrieved 2017 - 08 - 12 Jump up ^ `` The Del - Rays ''. Staxrecords.free.fr. Archived from the original on 12 June 2011. Retrieved 2011 - 08 - 17. Jump up ^ Letter to Brezhnev, Original Soundtrack Retrieved December 7, 2011. Further reading Serene Dominic. Burt Bacharach, song by song : the ultimate Burt Bacharach reference for fans. Schirmer Trade ( New York NY ) 2003. ISBN 0 - 8256 - 7280 - 5 Karina, Spanish pop singer, recorded a cover for Hispavox Records in 1966 External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Dionne Warwick Discography Studio albums Presenting Dionne Warwick ( 1963 ) Anyone Who Had a Heart ( 1964 ) Make Way for Dionne Warwick ( 1964 ) The Sensitive Sound of Dionne Warwick ( 1965 ) Here I Am ( 1965 ) Here Where There Is Love ( 1966 ) On Stage and in the Movies ( 1967 ) The Windows of the World ( 1967 ) Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls ( 1968 ) Promises, Promises ( 1968 ) Soulful ( 1969 ) I 'll Never Fall in Love Again ( 1970 ) Very Dionne ( 1970 ) Dionne ( 1979 ) No Night So Long ( 1980 ) Friends in Love ( 1982 ) Heartbreaker ( 1982 ) How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye ( 1983 ) Finder of Lost Loves ( 1985 ) Friends ( 1985 ) Reservations for Two ( 1987 ) Friends Can Be Lovers ( 1993 ) My Friends & Me ( 2006 ) Live albums Dionne Warwick in Paris ( 1966 ) Hot ! Live and Otherwise ( 1981 ) Christmas in Vienna II ( 1993 ) Compilation albums The Love Collection ( 2008 ) Singles `` Do n't Make Me Over '' `` Wishin ' and Hopin ' '' `` Anyone Who Had a Heart '' `` Walk On By '' `` You 'll Never Get to Heaven ( If You Break My Heart ) '' `` A House Is Not a Home '' `` Reach Out for Me '' `` Who Can I Turn To ? 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Question: who wrote the song always something there to remind me
Answer: Burt Bacharach