(Theme from) Valley of the Dolls

Album: Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls (1967)
Charted: 28 2
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  • Gotta get off, gonna get Have to get off from this ride
    Gotta get hold, gonna get Need to get hold of my pride
    When did I get, where did I
    How was I caught in this game
    When will I know, where will I
    How will I think of my name

    When did I stop feeling sure, feeling safe
    And start wondering why, wondering why
    Is this a dream, am I here, where are you
    What's in back of the sky, why do we cry

    Gotta get off, gonna get Out of this merry-go-round
    Gotta get off, gonna get Need to get on where I'm bound
    When did I get, where did I Why am I lost as a lamb
    When will I know, where will I How will I learn who I am
    Is this a dream, am I here, where are you
    Tell me, when will I know, how will I know
    When will I know why? Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

  • Lc from San Francisco, CaDoes anyone have the full lyrics from the movie? There are more verses sung at different parts of the movie. It's actually different from the version release on record.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1968 {March 3rd} "Theme from 'Valley of The Dolls'" by Dionne Warwick peaked at #2 {for 4 weeks} on Billboard's Easy Listening chart, for the four weeks it was at #2, the #1 record for those four weeks was "Love Is Blue" by Paul Mauriat...
    "Theme from 'Valley of The Dolls" also peaked at #2 for four weeks on Billboard's Top 100 chart...
    Between 1963 and 1989 the Orange, New Jersey native had forty-five records on the Easy Listening/Adult Contemporary chart, twenty-seven made the Top 10 with four reaching #1...
    Nine of her forty-five charted records were duets; two with Jeffery Osborne and one each with The Spinners, Johnny Mathis, Luther Vandross, Glenn Jones, Barry Manilow, Kashif, and Howard Hewitt...
    Dionne Warwick, born Marie Dionne Warrick, celebrated her 80th birthday three months ago on December 12th, 2020...
    And from the 'For What It's Worth' department, the remainder of the Easy Listening Top 10 on March 3rd, 1968:
    At #3. "Love Is Blue" by Al Martino
    #4. "To Each His Own" by Frankie Laine
    #5. "If You Ever Leave Me" by Jack Jones
    #6. "Don't Tell My Heart To Stop Loving You" by Jerry Vale
    #7. "Winds of Change" by The Ray Conniff Singers
    #8. "Cab Driver" by The Mills Brothers
    #9. "We Can Fly" by The Cowsills
    #10. "Soul Coaxin' (Ame Caline)" by Raymond Lefevre

  • Bryan from New York CityFor starters, the song was not even nominated for an Oscar. Beautiful Song.
  • Babbling Babette from Tulsa OkI bought the 45 rpm single in '67 when I was at University of Kansas. The song was a haunting & catchy one. Valley of the Dolls was first a huge #1 novel about Hollywood's seamier effects on young actresses. Scandalous for The Sixties decade. Then, it became a big flashy movie with Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Sharon Tate, Susan Hayward, & others. The song was on the radio in my area for a long time (Kansas City area) and was very popular for Dionne. A huge seller too. When I went home on a "break" to Oklahoma, the song was #1 on the area radio station there. On Billboard, I heard it hit all the way up to #2. Impressive.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn February 18th 1968, "(Theme from) Valley of the Dolls" by Dionne Warwick peaked at #2 (for 4 weeks) on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; it had entered the chart on January 14th at position #77 and spent 13 weeks on the Top 100 (and for 7 of those 13 weeks it was on the Top 10)...
    It also reached #2 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and #4 in Canada...
    Was track four of side one on her tenth studio album, 'Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls', and the album peaked at #6 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart...
    The first three weeks the song was at #2, the #1 record was "Love Is Blue" by Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra and during its last week "(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding was in the top spot...
    Ms. Warwick, born Marie Dionne Warrick, celebrated her 73rd birthday two months ago on December 12th (2013).
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyAccording to Billboard; this record was a two-sided Top Ten hit for Dionne; "Valley of the Dolls" stayed at #2 for four weeks while the flip-side "I Say A Little Prayer" peaked at #4!!!
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