Anyone Who Had a Heart
Dionne Warwick | Artist Essentials
First released: 1963 (year verified)
Original 1963 single recording
MusicAtlas editorial note: The shifting phrase lengths make each return to the title feel newly urgent.
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Release evidence and recording details
First released: 1963 (year verified)
The contemporary November 1963 Cash Box review identifies the issued Scepter 1262 single and both sides. This supports original year 1963 before the 1964 album, without assigning the review date as a release day. The complete indexed review item was read; direct access to the full PDF was unavailable.
Recording: Original 1963 single recording
Credit: Dionne Warwick
Role in this collection: Primary artist
Original single: Anyone Who Had a Heart
Cash Box, 23 November 1963 - contemporary Scepter 1262 review
The retrieved indexed facsimile text contains the complete contemporary record-review item identifying Dionne Warwick, Anyone Who Had a Heart / The Love of a Boy, Scepter 1262 and the original approximately 2:58 lead side. This establishes an official original single in 1963 before the 1964 album; no exact release day is assigned. The direct PDF open returned 403, so the claim is scoped to the independently retrieved full review item, not inspection of every PDF page. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
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About Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick brought a distinctive contralto and precise phrasing to the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David in the early 1960s. Anyone Who Had a Heart and Walk On By are landmarks of that partnership. Her later work extended through R&B, jazz and soft-rock ballads, including I'll Never Love This Way Again. Across these settings, her recordings connect pop melody with gospel and soul vocal traditions.
Artist background sources
Dionne Warwick - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame biography
Vocal range and phrasing, Bacharach-David collaboration, representative recordings and later R&B/jazz/soft-rock directions. The source's album-date and B-side anecdote are not used. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-17. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
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