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
Say You, Say Me best-selling singers from around the world in collaborations. The album version features American country singer Jason Aldean. Say You, Say Me "Say You, Say Me" is a song written and recorded by Lionel Richie for the film "White Nights", starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines. The single hit number 1 in the US and on the R&B singles chart in December 1985. It became Richie's ninth number one on the "Billboard" Adult Contemporary chart. The track is not available on the soundtrack album to the film, because Motown did not want Richie's first single since the "Can't Slow Down" album