Songfacts®:

• Dionne Warwick recorded the original demo of the song for songwriter Bob Hilliard and she told him how much she liked it. Dionne recalls, "It was written during that period of time when I met Bacharach and David. Bob Hilliard wrote the song also and he said: 'I've got a good little song here and there's a new group called 'Ruby and the Romantics' and will you do the demonstration record?' I said: 'Of course. I'd love to. And I did. And I told him then that it was a really pretty song." In 1982 Dionne Warwick included it as her only cover on her 1982 album Heartbreaker.
• Christina Aguilera sang this song on her demo tape. >>

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• A reggae re-working of this tune was included on Amy Winehouse's first posthumous release Hidden Treasures. Her version was produced by frequent Winehouse cohort Salaam Remi, who explained during a listening session for the album that during the recording of Winehouse's debut, Frank, the twosome played around with different versions of songs that they liked. Hence this reggae version of the doo wop tune was demoed. "It also points the way forward to the doo wop sound of (second album) Back to Black," Remi added.
• Many '60s and '70s recording acts covered the song as an album track. The Supremes recorded it for the album There's a Place For Us (which went unreleased until 2004), and Cher included the tune on her February 1966 album The Sunny Side Of Cher. The Carpenters included it on their 1973 album Now & Then, and in 1975 Frankie Valli's rock-disco remake reached #11 on the Hot 100.