Dionne Warwick - "Walk On By"

[strong4PMB!]

How great is this song? I'm so glad Ashanti sang thing on American Dreams last year, or else I would have never heard it!

It's even better than "(Fa Sho) That's What Friends Are For"! It makes me wanna buy one of her several GH albums. None of them were cheap (cheep) enough at Amoeba Records, though. (My mom likes Dionne, too! "She had a really nice voice." Tru dat!)

You can download a snippet of Ashanti's version of the song here. :)

[WhySoSerious?]

I know Dionne's is the definitive version, but I actually like Aretha's take on the song better. It's been covered by a ton of people.

[Bob]

Kelly Clarkson sang this on American Idol, it was great.

[Keith3000]

TCorey said:

I know Dionne's is the definitive version, but I actually like Aretha's take on the song better. It's been covered by a ton of people.

Wow, I didn't know Aretha covered this also. This makes two Warwick songs covered by Aretha---this one and "I Say A Little Prayer"!

[mst3k]

I loved Sybil's version from 1989. I think Cyndi Lauper just recorded a dance version?

[WhySoSerious?]

mst3k1 said:

I loved Sybil's version from 1989. I think Cyndi Lauper just recorded a dance version?

Dances mixes were just sent to clubs, but the version on her album is a piano ballad.

[reception]

Boring

[prenatt1166]

UU-BRU Internet Radio
For Week Ending December 30, 1989

(Rank This Week, Last Week, Artist, Title)

31  31  Ricky Van Shelton -  Statue Of A Fool
32  35  Paula Abdul -  Opposites Attract
33  27  Eric Clapton -  Pretending
34  **  Barbra Streisand -  Someone That I Used To Love
35  **  Chunky A -  Owwwww!
36  36  Sybil -  Walk On By
37  37  David Benoit -  Linus & Lucy
38  **  B-52's -  Roam
39  **  Melissa Manchester -  Walk On By
40  **  Billy Joel -  I Go To Extremes

New versions of Dionne Warwick's WOB charted together for 3 weeks beginning Dec 30, 1989.  Sybil peaked at #36, while Melissa Manchester only reached #38.

:)

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I like it.

[jimmy74747]

Classic Song

[jlh527]

Classic all the way!! Dionne is one of those great vocalists that get lost in the shuffle of Aretha-Patti-Gladys. I think Natalie Cole and Dionne are more alike IMO, but Dionne is one of my favs.

Her version is the DEFINITIVE version, although I like Sybil's and Patti LaBelle's.

[ClassicCase]

TCorey said:

I know Dionne's is the definitive version, but I actually like Aretha's take on the song better.  It's been covered by a ton of people.

It's either that or you were referring Aretha's rendition of I Say A Little Prayer, also performed by Dionne. I don't think I recall Lady Soul re-making that song.

There's also another musical note some of you overlooked. Isaac Hayes did his overly-extended 11 minute version of the song (the same one Ashanti used for Rain On Me).

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ClassicCase said:

It's either that or you were referring Aretha's rendition of I Say A Little Prayer, also performed by Dionne. I don't think I recall Lady Soul re-making that song.

There's also another musical note some of you overlooked. Isaac Hayes did his overly-extended 11 minute version of the song (the same one Ashanti used for Rain On Me).

Nope Aretha did do a version of "Walk On By".

As for the song that's sampled in "Rain On Me," it's "The Look Of Love". "Walk On By" was used in the Notorious BIG's "Warning".

[ClassicCase]

Man, I get those two mixed up! Thanks for clearing that up for me, Josh.

[Ling-Ling]

This song is a classic.

Growing up, Dionne was a joke to me, mainly because of the Psychic Hotline thing. But I've definately come to appreciate her as a vocalist. All of those Burt Bacharach/Hal David songs have been remade countless times, and yet hers are still the definitive versions IMO. That's saying quite a bit.

[kellydicted]

I dont really like how Dionne sings it. Kelly did an amazing job on AI...so good! :o

[cartman2002]

Walk On By reached #6 in 1964 for Dionne Warwick

[Private Dancer]

Classic tune by a classic artist. This is the best version of the song despite the many remakes.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Love it.

[jdanton2]

the best part of the new Doja Cat song Paint The Town Red is easily the sample of this song .

[Soulsista]

I like it, but my favorite version of this song is by Isaac Hayes.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

#129 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Pop Songs


www.billboard.com/lists/best-pop-songs-all-time-hits/99-lmfao-feat-lauren-bennett-goonrock-party-rock-anthem/

You Know What It Is: The ultimate in graceful post-breakup songs, Dionne Warwick keeping herself composed just long enough to get out of her ex’s eyesight and cry on her trumpet player’s shoulder.

That Magic Moment: Pure witchcraft throughout, but credit perhaps most of all to when Warwick (and composers Burt Bacharach and Hal David) unexpectedly amp up the drama on the chorus, all pounding pianos and teary “DON’T…. STOP!” backing vocals.

Coming Around Again: “Walk on By” just happens to be prominently sampled on a No. 1 hit the very month this list is being published, nearly six full decades later, no big deal really.

[Caviar]

Great song.