Wishin' and Hopin' 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 of 1962, and was the B-side of Warwick's single "This Empty Place" (also recorded in the fall of 1962) in the spring of 1963; the track was also featured on Warwick's debut album "Presenting Dionne Warwick". Warwick's rendition became a charting single in France, reaching #79 in 1963. Dusty Springfield, who had heard the Warwick album track, recorded "Wishin' and Hopin in
Don't Say You Love Me (Fifth Harmony song) know this is Serious Stuff." Megan Mann of the "Salute" magazine commented that the video was "beautiful in its simplicity." She also found several parallels between the video for "Don't Say You Love Me" and that of the Spice Girls' “Goodbye" (1998). As Mann perceived, the video ends the same way: with the four members linking arms before closing the door. For Abby Jones who described the visual as "dramatic" in his written article published on "Billboard" website, the group is "angelic" in their gowns. Fifth Harmony first performed "Don't Say You Love Me" live during their appearance on MTV's