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
Don't Say You Love Me (M2M song) interview, M2M replied "the "Pokémon" people didn't find it appropriate to have kissing in the lyrics, because it was for younger kids. We think [the lyric change] was stupid. The original version is on ["Shades of Purple"], and that's the one we wanted to go with." M2M had not heard of "Pokémon" until the song was chosen for the soundtrack, as the franchise was not yet popular in Norway. "Don't Say You Love Me" appeared in "The List", an episode in the TV series "Felicity" that aired in the US on 3 October 1999 and reached an audience of 5million