Make It Easy on Yourself

Album: The Best Of Jerry Butler (1962)
Charted: 20
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  • 'Cause breaking up is so
    Very hard to do

    If you really love her
    And there's nothing I can do
    Don't try to spare my feelings
    Just tell me that we're through

    And make it easy on yourself
    Make it easy on yourself
    'Cause breaking up is so very hard to do

    And if the way I hold you
    Can't compare to her caress
    No words of consolation
    Will make me miss you less

    And my darling, if this is goodbye
    I just know I'm gonna cry
    So run to her
    Before you start crying too

    And make it easy on yourself
    Make it easy on yourself
    'Cause breaking up is so very hard to do

    And make it easy on yourself
    Make it easy on yourself
    'Cause breaking up is so very hard to do

    And make it easy on yourself Writer/s: BURT F BACHARACH, Burt F. Bacharach, CHANELLE CALICA, Hal David, PJ STENNETT
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Royalty Network, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1970 {November 1st} "Make It Easy On Yourself" by Dionne Warwick peaked at #2 {for 2 weeks} on Billboard's Easy Listening chart, for the two weeks it was at #2, the #1 record for both those weeks was "We've Only Just Begun" by The Carpenters
    "Make It Easy On Yourself" reached #37 {for 1 week} 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, will celebrate her 81st birthday next month on December 12th, 2021...
    And from the 'For What It's Worth' department, the remainder of the Easy Listening Top 10 on November 1st, 1970:
    At #3. "Sweetheart" by Englebert Humperdinck
    #4. "It's Don't Matter To Me" by Bread
    #5. "And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind" by Mark Lindsay
    #6. "It's Only Make Believe" by Glen Campbell
    #7. "Fire and Rain" by James Taylor
    #8. "Stoney End" by Barbra Streisand
    #9. "Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma" by The New Seekers
    #10. "Home Lovin' Man" by Andy William
  • Len Sabatini from Chillicothe OhioDoes anyone know why when I try to add the song “make it easy on yourself” from the album “very Dionne” by Dionne Warwick to my Amazon music playlist that the song is not the same as the live 1970 rendition that is on the acutal album I bought in 1972. How can a digital download of a album’s song not have the exact same song as was originally on the physical album? It’s the only song that is not the same rendition
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 25th 1962, Jerry Butler performed "Make It Easy on Yourself" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    Six days later on July 1st, 1962 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #100; and on July 26th, 1962 it peaked at #20 (for 1 week) and spent 11 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #18 on Billboard's R&B singles chart...
    Eight years later in 1970 Dionne Warwick released her covered version; it stayed on the Top 100 for 8 weeks, peaking at #37...
    Between 1958 and 1983 Mr. Butler had fifty-three records on the R&B Singles chart; seventeen made the Top 10 with three reaching #1, "He Will Break Your Heart" (1960), "Hey, Western Union Man" (1968), and "Only The Strong Survive" (1969)...
    'The Iceman' will celebrate his 75th birthday this coming December 8th, 2014.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyWhat a wonderful & powerful voice; hard to believe he only had two Top 10 records; "He Will Break Your Heart" & "Only The Strong Survive"!!! His "For Your Precious Love" is one of the greatest R&B songs of all time!!!
  • Steve Dotstar from Los Angeles, Caone the original carnations of this tune by Dionne Warwick(after Butler?) provided one the first versions of this wonderful song...later on, it's "feel" was to be re-arranged and explored several times...and it turns out to be a very powerful song! great stuff!
  • Dave from Cardiff, WalesIn 1985, The Dream Academy (the band best-known in the USA for 'The Edge of Forever' which featured in the film 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off') scored a UK Top 20 hit with 'Life In A Northern Town' (the vocal chant from 'Life...' was later sampled by Dario G on his 1997 hit 'Sun Chyme'). Inspired by Nick Drake and with clearly influenced both lyrically and musically by 60s life and culture, the song's lyrics contained a famous reference to this song...
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