Songs People Should Hear

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from wikipedia

"Walk On By" is a song composed by Burt Bacharach, with lyrics by Hal David for Dionne Warwick. It was recorded at the same December 1963 session that yielded "Anyone Who Had a Heart", which, in 1964, became Warwick's second Top Ten hit. Released in April of that year, "Walk on By" became a landmark single, reaching number six on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number one hit Cashbox's R&B chart.(Billboard did not print rhythm and blues charts during 1964, the year of the song's peak performance.) The song also reached the top 10 in a brief run on Billboard's easy listening survey.

Like many of Warwick's 1960s Bacharach-composed singles, "Walk on By" was heavily covered in different ways, some of which gained significant chart success. One notable version was by funk/soul musician Isaac Hayes, whose 1969 cover on his groundbreaking album Hot Buttered Soul was transformed into a twelve-and-a-half minute funk vamp. In 1978, The Stranglers recorded a gritty punk-inspired version that hit #21 on the UK charts. In 1982, funk duo D-Train recorded a US-only R&B hit with the song in a disco/funk cover. In 1990, singer Sybil, who had scored her biggest hit a year prior with a cover of Warwick's "Don't Make Me Over", also scored a US R&B hit with this song.

Warwick also recorded a German version of the song, entitled "Geh Vorbei".

If you see me walkin’ down the street
And I start to cry each time we meet
Walk on by
Walk on by
Make believe
That you don’t see the tears, just let me grieve
In private ‘cause each time I see you
I break down and cry
Walk on by (Don’t stop)
Walk on by (Don’t stop)
Walk on by
I just can’t get over losin’ you
And so if I seem broken and blue
Walk on by
Walk on by
Foolish pride
Is all that I have left, so let me hide
The tears and the sadness you gave me
When you said goodbye
Walk on by (Don’t stop)
Walk on by (Don’t stop)
Walk on by (Don’t stop)
Walk on
Walk on by
Walk on by
Foolish pride
That’s all that I have left, so let me hide
The tears and the sadness you gave me
When you said goodbye
Walk on by (Don’t stop)
Walk on by (Don’t stop)
Now you really gotta go , so walk on by (Don’t, don’t stop)
Baby, leave, you’ll never see the tears I cry (Don’t, don’t stop)
Now you really gotta go , so walk on by (Don’t, don’t stop), mmm...mmm...hmm...
Baby, leave, you’ll never see the tears I cry (Don’t, don’t stop)
Now you really gotta go , so walk on by (Don’t, don’t stop)