Wishin' and Hopin' for Springfield in Australia (#2), New Zealand (#3), South Africa (#2), and Canada (#2). Ani DiFranco's rendition of this song recorded in 1995 and released in November 1995, was featured over the opening credits of the film, "My Best Friend's Wedding". That film, along with the "Austin Powers" films, is suggested to have led to the renewed popularity of the Bacharach-David catalog. Wishin' and Hopin' "Wishin' and Hopin'" is a song, written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach, which was a Top 10 hit for Dusty Springfield in 1964. The song was first recorded by Dionne Warwick in the fall
Wishin' and Hopin' she performed was "Wishin' and Hopin with the vocal accompaniment of Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. Springfield's recording was featured in the film, "A Home at the End of the World" (2004). "Wishin' and Hopin was also featured in "", the second episode of "". Springfield recorded foreign language versions of "Wishin' and Hopin in July 1964: in Italian as "Stupido Stupido" – which was a combination of lyrics in Italian and English, the latter being newly written rather than taken from the original song – and in German as "Warten Und Hoffen". "Wishin' and Hopin was also a hit