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' The Eagles also had a single release of "Wishin' and Hopin, although it was the B-side of their non-charting single "Write Me a Letter". Despite not being a UK hit single for Springfield, "Wishin' and Hopin was strongly identified with her in the UK public consciousness: she performed the song with the Merseybeats on the 8 August 1964 episode of "Ready Steady Go!" – actually both acts lip-synched to a track spliced together from their respective versions – and on that show's "Sound of Motown" edition broadcast 28 April 1965 which Springfield hosted, the only one of her own songs