Walk On By
Dionne Warwick | Artist Essentials
First released: 1964 (year verified)
Original 1964 studio recording
MusicAtlas editorial note: The restrained lead holds its shape while the piano and orchestral responses keep pressing forward.
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Release evidence and recording details
First released: 1964 (year verified)
The original recording is documented in the 1964 release history of Make Way for Dionne Warwick. Only year precision is assigned; later singles, charts, remasters and live versions do not establish its first release.
Recording: Original 1964 studio recording
Credit: Dionne Warwick
Role in this collection: Primary artist
Original album: Make Way for Dionne Warwick
Make Way for Dionne Warwick - original 1964 recordings
The original 1964 program identifies Walk On By, Reach Out for Me and You'll Never Get to Heaven. The separately titled French and English A House Is Not a Home item is not generalized to an original English-only release. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
Rhino - Make Way for Dionne Warwick
The label identifies the original 1964 Scepter album and its Walk On By, Reach Out for Me and You'll Never Get to Heaven singles. This supports original studio-program identity rather than a later anthology's explicitly live Walk On By. | 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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