Six months hence “Anyone Who Had A Heart” will be 60 years old. Composed by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Dionne Warwick recorded the melancholy love song in one take at Manhattan’s Bell Sound Studios (237 West 54th Street). The session happened a week or two before JFK’s murder. And then along came Elvis Costello‘s collaboration with Bacharach in the late ’90s, and I’m sorry but his version of “Anyone Who Had A Heart” just blew Warwick’s away.
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