Posted in 1960s, Friday On My Mind at 12:00 on 3 October 2025
This wasn’t a hit in the UK but was Warwick’s first in the US.
It’s a typical early sixties kind of song.
Here’s a TV appearance from 1963.
Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over
Posted in 1960s, 1990s, Events dear boy. Events, Friday On My Mind, Music, Something Changed at 21:00 on 10 February 2023
I got home late last night just after hearing of the death of Burt Bacharach on the radio in the car.
Burt Bacharach’s roster of hit songs is just superb. Far too many to list here.
I noted his collaboration with lyricist Hal David in 2012.
It is fair to say that the 1960s would not have been the 1960s without their songs to help soundtrack the decade. Most of their songs have become standards.
In memoriam I present perhaps one of their lesser known compositions. Like many of theirs it was a hit in the US for Dionne Warwick (albeit with a slightly altered title) but in the UK it became Adam Faith’s last top twenty success.
Adam Faith: Message to Martha
Scottish band Deacon Blue covered it – along with three other Bacharach/David compositions – in 1990.
Deacon Blue: Message to Michael
Burt Freeman Bacharach: 12/5/1928 – 8/2/2023. So it goes.
