Walk On By: 69 selected recordings, arranged by genre

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Walk On By (m. Burt Bacharach, w. Hal David)

The original version of “Walk On By” was recorded at the same December 1963 session that yielded [Dionne Warwick’s] hit “Anyone Who Had a Heart.” “Walk On By” was the follow-up to that single, released in April 1964 and reaching #6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Cashbox’s R&B chart.^[1]

Dionne Warwick — issued in April 1964 on the single Scepter 1274 (also S-1274), b/w “Any Old Time of Day” (Burt Bacharach & Hal David) — each side produced by Burt Bacharach & Hal David and arranged by Burt Bacharach

(below) music video from French TV, taped on the roof of la Maison de la Radio à Paris; originally broadcast on 12 October 1964

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Soul interpretations

Aretha Franklin — from her 1964 LP Runnin’ Out of Fools, Columbia CL 2281 (Mono), Columbia CS 9081 (Stereo), released on 16 November 1964

Lou Johnson — issued in August 1967 on the single Big Top 104, b/w “Little Girl” (Allen Toussaint)

Isaac Hayes

12 minute version from the album Hot Buttured Soul, Enterprise Records ENS-1001, released in September 1969

Preceding the LP by a couple of months, a 4:20 edit was issued in July 1969 on the single Enterprise Records ENA-9003, as the B-side of a similarly shortened edit of “By the Time I Get to Phoenix.” Each side of the single became a top 40 hit on both the Hot 100 and R&B charts, with “Walk On By” peaking at #13 on the R&B chart the week of 25 October 1969. About another minute was lopped off for the following television lip-sync performance.

Rhetta Hughes — from her 1969 album Re-Light My Fire, Tetragrammaton Records ‎ T-111 — arranged by Mike Terry

The Dells — from the 1972 LP The Dells Sing Dionne Warwicke’s Greatest Hits, Cadet Records CA 50017

The Undisputed Truth — from their 1973 LP Law of the Land, Gordy G 963L

Laura Nyro — from the posthumous album Angel in the Dark, recorded in 1994-1995 and released in 2001

Isaac Hayes — Live at the 2005 Montreux Jazz Festival, 2 July 2005

yazminsoul — published at SoundCloud, c. 2014

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Jazz, Jazz Fusion, and Smooth Jazz versions (artist name links to external video)

1965 — Gabor Szabo — Gypsy ’66, Impulse! A-9105 (Mono), AS-9105 (Stereo)
1966 — Stanley Turrentine — Rough ‘n’ Tumble, Blue Note BST 84240
1966 — Jazz Crusaders — Talk That Talk, Pacific Jazz ST 20106
1966 — Brother Jack McDuff — Walk On By (LP), Prestige PR 7476 (Mono?), PRST 7476 (Stereo)
1966 — Mongo Santamaría — Hey! Let’s Party, Columbia CS 9273
c.1967 — Morgana King — live at the Bitter End, NYC
1967 — Stan Getz — What the World Needs Now – Stan Getz Plays Bacharach and David, Verve (US) V6-8752; recorded in August 1967 at Ter-Mar Studios, Chicago — album reissued (when?) in the UK as The Special Magic of Stan Getz & Burt Bacharach, Verve Records 2317 062
1968 — Cal Tjader — Cal Tjader Sounds Out Burt Bacharach, Skye SK6
1969 — Bruce Cloud — California Soul, Capitol ST-343
1969 — Don Patterson with Sonny Stitt — Brothers-4, Prestige PR 7734
1969 — Enoch Light — Enoch Light Presents Spaced Out, Project 3 Records PR 5043 SD
1970 — Living Jazz — Hot Butter & Soul, RCA Camden ‎CAS-2436
1971 — East of Underground — about (waxpoetics.com)
1979 — Average White Band — Feel No Fret, Atlantic ‎ SD 19207
1994 — Peter White — Reflections, CGR Productions CGR 1808 — The rhythm track seems to be based on that of the 1989 new jack city version by Sybil
1995 — Bobby Caldwell — Soul Survivor, Sin-Drome 8910
1996 — Lenny White, with vocalist Audrey Northington — Renderers of the Spirit
2003 — Janet Marlow — Latin Lover
2004 — Rigmor Gustaffson with Jacky Terrasson Trio — album Close to You: Celebrating Dionne Warwick, The ACT Company (Germany) ACT 9703 2
2004 — Jazz Jamaica All Stars — Massive
2007 — Pamela Williams, with vocal by Precious Iglesias — The Look of Love, Shanachie SH 5154
2008 — Phil Perry — Ready For Love, Shanachie ‎5164
2011 — Kat Webb — An Old Soul
2011 — Victor Fields — 52nd Street
2012 — Tony Bragano — published at YouTube on 10 June 2012
2013 — Carl Neal — single released on 15 April 2013, according to iTunes

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Ska: Reggae and other Jamaican styles

1969 — St. Andrews Girls Choir — B-side of “Sound of Silence” (Paul Simon), Trojan Records TR 689
1980 — Motion — single “Walk On By” (Reggae Mix), UK label Blue Inc INCD 10, b/w “Walk On By” (Soul Mix)

1981 — Sugar Minott — on the album Good Thing Going
1983 — The I-Tones
- long version, probably from the 1983 12″ single I-Tones ‎IT-001/IT-002 , b/w “Give Us Strength”
- a recording was also included on the 1987 album Something We Share, I-Tones Music ‎LP IT-003
- (below) short version, apparently edited from 1983 long version linked to above

1990 — Tasha Lee — Music Master Top 10, Vol. 1 (various artists), Music Master (Jamaica)
1994 — Janet Lee Davis — Missing You, Fashion Records
2005 — Tsuyoshi Kawakami & His Moodmakers, with vocalist Kaori Takeda — Mood Inn, Cutting Edge ‎(Japan) CTCR-14439, released on 14 September 2005
2012 — Aisha — uploaded to YouTube on 22 January 2012

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Easy Listening, Vocal Pop, and Instrumental

vocal group and vocal solo

1964 — The Lettermen — She Cried, Capitol ‎T 2142 (Mono), ST 2142 (Stereo)
1964 — Helen Shapiro — Helen Hits Out!, Columbia SCX 3533
1964 — Mary Jones — single Hit 121, b/w “Diane” recorded by the Concords
1965 — Maureen Moore — (perhaps from) Style and Country, RCA Victor 31.879
1965 — The 4 Seasons — The 4 Seasons Sing Big Hits by Burt Bacharach…Hal David…Bob Dylan, Philips PHM 200-193 (Mono), Philips PHS 600-193 (Stereo)
1965 — The Norman Luboff Choir — Blues – Right Now!, RCA Victor RSP 3312
1966 — Bobby Kris and the Imperials — B-side of single “Travellin’ Bag,” Columbia (Canada) C4-2672; also issued in March 1966 as the B-side of Bell (US) 638
1968 — The Beach Boys — rehearsal take, about 50 seconds long
1968 — Ginger Thompson — B-side of the single “Boy Watcher,” 1-2-3 Records 1702, issued in 1968
1969 — The Carnival — B-side of “Son of a Preacher Man,” World Pacific 77922, issued in July 1969
1969 — We Five — single A&M 1072, b/w “It Really Doesn’t Matter” — also issued on the 1969 album The Return of We Five
1970 — The Gimmicks — Brazilian Samba, Omega (EU) 444.015; album issued in the UK as Decca Eclipse ‎ECS-R 2054
1996 — Gabrielle — single on the Go! Discs label

instrumental

1965 — Baja Marimba Band — Baja Marimba Band Rides Again, A&M SP 4109
1966 — The Afro-Blues Quintet Plus One — single Mira 223, b/w “Liberation” — also appeared on the 1966 LP Introducing the Afro-Blues Quintet Plus One, Mira LPS 3002
1966 — Pucho & the Latin Soul Brothers — Tough!, Prestige PR 7471
1969 — The 18th Century Corporation — Bacharach Baroque, United Artists Records, UAS 6697
1971 — Tony Hatch & his Orchestra — What the World Needs Now, PYE Records (UK) NSPL 41014
1971 — Xylos Inc. — Pretty Percussion, (UK) Polydor ‎460 141, Circle Of Sound ‎460 141

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Funk-Soul

Juice — issued in 1973 on the single Ebony Sounds Records ‎ES 182, b/w “Juice”

The Capprells with the Sul Brothers Band — B-side of the single “Close Your Eyes” (B. Petkere) Bano B-100, issued in 1975

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R&B Dance

1970s — Disco

Gloria Gaynor — single MGM 14808, b/w “Real Good People” — a longer version appeared on Gaynor’s 1975 LP Experience

1980s — Post-Disco, Electronic, Funk/Soul

D Train — 12″ 33 1/3 RPM single issued in August 1982, Prelude PRL D 638 (length 5:53)

Other released versions by D Train include:

track on 1982 LP You’re the One for Me, Prelude Records PRL-14105, PRL 14105 (5:17)
7″ 45 RPM single Prelude Records PRL 8057, b/w “Tryin’ to Get Over,” issued in 1982 (3:17)

1980s — New Jack Swing

Sybil — 1989