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' (Grey's Anatomy) noted how the character was "direct, somewhat stern, but not unkind about the subject as she educates and consoles the girl". Wishin' and Hopin' (Grey's Anatomy) "Wishin' and Hopin'" is the fourteenth episode of the third season of the American television medical drama "Grey's Anatomy", and the show's 50th episode overall. It was written by Tony Phelan and Joan Rater and directed by Julie Anne Robinson. The episode originally aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in the United States on February 1, 2007. In the episode, Dr. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) struggles with her Alzheimer's-stricken mother, Ellis Grey (Kate