Wishin ' and Hopin ' - wikipedia Wishin ' and Hopin ' This article is about the song. For the American film, see Wishin ' and Hopin ' ( film ). For the novel, see Wally Lamb. For the Grey 's Anatomy episode, see Wishin ' and Hopin ' ( Grey 's Anatomy ). This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( July 2009 ) `` Wishin ' and Hopin ' '' Single by Dionne Warwick from the album Presenting Dionne Warwick A-side `` This Empty Place '' Released 1963 Genre Pop Length 2 : 55 Label Scepter Songwriter ( s ) Burt Bacharach, Hal David Producer ( s ) Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick singles chronology `` Do n't Make Me Over '' ( 1962 ) `` Wishin ' and Hopin ' '' ( 1963 ) `` Make the Music Play '' ( 1963 ) `` Do n't Make Me Over '' ( 1962 ) `` Wishin ' and Hopin ' '' ( 1963 ) `` Make the Music Play '' ( 1963 ) `` Wishin ' and Hopin ' '' Single by Dusty Springfield from the album A Girl Called Dusty ( UK ) Stay Awhile / I Only Want to Be with You ( U.S. ) B - side `` Do Re Mi '' Released May 1964 Format 45 RPM single Recorded January 1964, Olympic Studios, London Genre Pop Length 2 : 53 Label Phillips Songwriter ( s ) Burt Bacharach, Hal David Producer ( s ) Johnny Franz Dusty Springfield singles chronology `` Stay Awhile '' ( 1964 ) `` Wishin ' and Hopin ' '' ( 1964 ) `` All Cried Out '' ( String Module Error : Match not found ) `` Stay Awhile '' ( 1964 ) `` Wishin ' and Hopin ' '' ( 1964 U.S. ) `` All Cried Out '' ( 1963 U.S. ) `` Wishin ' and Hopin ' '' is a song, written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach, which was a Top 10 hit for Dusty Springfield in 1964. Contents 1 History 2 Other versions 3 References 4 External links History The song was first recorded by Dionne Warwick and was the B - side of Warwick 's single `` This Empty Place '' in the spring of 1963 ; the track was also featured on Warwick 's debut album Presenting Dionne Warwick. Warwick 's rendition became a charting single in France, reaching # 79 in 1963. Dusty Springfield, who had heard the Warwick album track, recorded `` Wishin ' and Hopin ' '' in January 1964 at Olympic Studios. Personnel for the session included Bobby Graham on drums, Big Jim Sullivan on guitar, and the Breakaways vocal group. Ivor Raymonde arranged and conducted on the session for which Johnny Franz was the producer. The track was included on Springfield 's solo album debuts in the UK : A Girl Called Dusty, and the US : Stay Awhile / I Only Want to Be with You. In February 1964, Springfield met with Burt Bacharach in New York City to listen to other songs to consider recording. Bacharach recalls at that time : `` I ( think ) I tried to talk her into releasing ' Wishin ' and Hopin ' ' ( as a single ) because she had some ambivalence about it. '' A New York disc jockey, Jack Lacy, began to play `` Wishin ' and Hopin ' '' following some encouragement from David and Bacharach, and Philips ' US label issued it as a single in May 1964 ; `` Wishin ' and Hopin ' '' broke nationally that June entering the Top Ten in July to peak at # 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 ( # 4 in Cashbox ). The release of `` Wishin ' and Hopin ' '' as a concurrent UK single release for Springfield was precluded by the presence on the UK charts of Springfield 's single `` I Just Do n't Know What to Do with Myself '' -- one of the songs Bacharach had pitched to her when they met in New York City in February 1964. `` Wishin ' and Hopin ' '' was recorded by UK band The Merseybeats whose inaugural single had been another song ( reissued in 1982 ) from the Presenting Dionne Warwick album : `` It 's Love That Really Counts '' ( UK # 24 ). The Merseybeats `` Wishin ' and Hopin ' '' peaked at # 13 on the UK Singles Chart in 1964, the same week Springfield 's `` I Just Do n't Know What to Do with Myself '' spent at its # 3 peak. Another UK male vocal group The Eagles also had a single release of `` Wishin ' and Hopin ' '', although it was the B - side of their non-charting single `` Write Me a Letter ''. Despite not being a UK hit single for Springfield, `` Wishin ' and Hopin ' '' was strongly identified with her in the UK public consciousness : she performed the song with the Merseybeats on the 8 August 1964 episode of Ready Steady Go ! -- actually both acts lip - synched to a track spliced together from their respective versions -- and on that show 's Sound of Motown edition broadcast 28 April 1965 which Springfield hosted, the only one of her own songs she performed was `` Wishin ' and Hopin ' '' with the vocal accompaniment of Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. Springfield 's recording was featured in the film, A Home at the End of the World ( 2004 ). `` Wishin ' and Hopin ' '' was also featured in Tricks and Treats, the second episode of American Horror Story : Asylum. Springfield recorded foreign language versions of `` Wishin ' and Hopin ' '' in July 1964 : in Italian as `` Stupido Stupido '' -- which was a combination of lyrics in Italian and English, the latter being newly written rather than taken from the original song -- and in German as `` Warten Und Hoffen ''. `` Wishin ' and Hopin ' '' was also a hit for Springfield in Australia ( # 2 ), New Zealand ( # 3 ) and South Africa ( # 2 ). Other versions Ani DiFranco 's rendition of this song recorded in 1995, was featured over the opening credits of the film, My Best Friend 's Wedding. That film, along with the Austin Powers films, is suggested to have led to the renewed popularity of the Bacharach - David catalog. References Jump up ^ Infodisc.fr ^ Jump up to : Wonderboymi.com Jump up ^ Dominic, Serene ( 2002 ). Burt Bacharach, song by song : the ultimate Burt Bacharach reference for fans. London : Omnibus Press. p. 105. ISBN 0 - 8256 - 7280 - 5. Jump up ^ Platts, Robin ( 2002 ). Burt Bacharach & Hal David : What the World Needs Now. Collectors Guide Publishing Inc. p. 34. ISBN 1 - 896522 - 77 - 7. Jump up ^ Tarradell, Mario ( 24 November 1997 ). `` Burt 's Back : Bacharach enjoying a resurgence ''. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 9 May 2013. External links Dionne Warwick 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 ) The Magic of Believing ( 1968 ) 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 ( 1972 ) Just Being Myself ( 1973 ) Then Came You ( 1975 ) Track of the Cat ( 1975 ) Love at First Sight ( 1977 ) 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 ) Dionne Sings Cole Porter ( 1990 ) Friends Can Be Lovers ( 1993 ) Aquarela do Brazil ( 1994 ) Dionne Sings Dionne ( 1998 ) Dionne Sings Dionne, Vol. 2 ( 2000 ) My Favorite Time of the Year ( 2004 ) My Friends & Me ( 2006 ) Why We Sing ( 2008 ) Only Trust Your Heart ( 2011 ) 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 ? '' `` Are You There ( With Another Girl ) '' `` Message to Michael '' `` I Just Do n't Know What to Do with Myself '' `` Alfie '' `` The Windows of the World '' `` I Say a Little Prayer '' `` ( Theme from ) Valley of the Dolls '' `` Do You Know the Way to San Jose '' `` ( There 's ) Always Something There to Remind Me '' `` This Girl 's in Love with You '' `` You 've Lost That Lovin ' Feeling '' `` I 'll Never Fall in Love Again '' `` Make It Easy on Yourself '' `` The Good Life '' `` Then Came You '' ( with Spinners ) `` By the Time I Get to Phoenix / I Say a Little Prayer '' ( with Isaac Hayes ) `` Only Love Can Break a Heart '' `` I 'll Never Love This Way Again '' `` Déjà Vu '' `` After You '' `` No Night So Long '' `` Easy Love '' `` Heartbreaker '' `` All the Love in the World '' `` Run to Me '' ( with Barry Manilow ) `` That 's What Friends Are For '' ( with Elton John, Gladys Knight & Stevie Wonder ) `` Love Power '' ( with Jeffrey Osborne ) `` It 's All Over '' ( with Dieter Bohlen as Blue System ) `` What the World Needs Now Is Love '' ( with TheHipHopNationUnited ) Record labels Arista Concord Rhino River North Scepter Warner Bros. 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'' Other songs `` Santa Claus Is Coming to Town '' `` Wishin ' & Hopin ' '' Filmography Neighbours The Steph Show Related Sky Mangel Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wishin%27_and_Hopin%27&oldid=789892898 '' Categories : 1963 singles 1964 singles Songs with lyrics by Hal David Songs with music by Burt Bacharach Dionne Warwick songs Dusty Springfield songs 1963 songs Scepter Records singles Philips Records singles Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from July 2009 All articles needing additional references Articles with hAudio microformats Music infoboxes with Module : String errors All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from May 2016 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Italiano Nederlands Svenska Edit links This page was last edited on 10 July 2017, at 08 : 58. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. 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Question: who sings wishing and hoping in my best friend's wedding
Answer: Ani DiFranco