Wishin' and Hopin'

Dionne Warwick recorded it in the fall of 1962, and it came out as the B-side of her single This Empty Place in spring 1963. Springfield heard the track on Warwick's album and recorded it in January 1964 at Olympic Studios, with Bobby Graham on drums, Big Jim Sullivan on guitar and the Breakaways. Raymonde arranged and conducted, and Franz produced. When she met Bacharach in New York in February, he said he tried to talk her into releasing it as a single, because she had some ambivalence about it.

Philips' American label issued it in May 1964. It broke nationally in June, and it reached number six on the Hot 100 and number four on the Easy Listening chart. Cash Box called it a tantalizing, cha cha beat-ballad affair. In Britain it was not a single for her, because I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself was on the charts. On 8 August 1964 she performed it on Ready Steady Go! with the Merseybeats, and both acts lip-synched to a track spliced from their two versions. In the Sound of Motown edition on 28 April 1965 it was the only one of her own songs she performed, with Martha Reeves and the Vandellas.

She recorded it in German as Warten und hoffen and in Italian as Stupido Stupido in July 1964.