Do You Know the Way to San Jose
Dionne Warwick | Artist Essentials
First released: 1968 (year verified)
Original 1968 single recording
MusicAtlas editorial note: The bright pulse and conversational delivery give the reflective lyric an easy surface.
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First released: 1968 (year verified)
The original recording is documented in the 1968 release history of Do You Know the Way to San Jose. Only year precision is assigned; later singles, charts, remasters and live versions do not establish its first release.
Recording: Original 1968 single recording
Credit: Dionne Warwick
Role in this collection: Primary artist
Original single: Do You Know the Way to San Jose
Her All-Time Greatest Hits - scoped original recording fields
Only the recording-specific 1966 Message to Michael and 1968 Do You Know the Way to San Jose fields are used as original years. The 1989 anthology date, explicitly live Walk On By, inherited 1964 Anyone field and inconsistent Valley of the Dolls field are excluded from first-release dating. | 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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