"Walk on By" is a song composed by Burt Bacharach, with lyrics by Hal David for Dionne Warwick. It was recorded at the same December 1963 session that yielded "Anyone Who Had a Heart", which, in 1964, became Warwick's first Top Ten hit. Released in April of that year, "Walk On By" became a landmark single, reaching #6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
Like many of Warwick's 1960s Bacharach-composed singles, "Walk On By" was heavily covered in different ways, most notably by funk/soul musician Isaac Hayes, whose 1969 cover on his groundbreaking album Hot Buttered Soul was transformed into a twelve-and-a-half minute funk vamp, breaking ground for singers to release songs surpassing five minutes. In 1982, funk singer D-Train recorded an R&B hit with the song mixing up Warwick and Hayes' versions. In 1990, singer Sybil, who had scored her biggest hit a year prior with a cover of Warwick's "Don't Make Me Over", also scored an R&B hit with this song.
Warwick also recorded a German version of the song, entitled "Geh Vorbei".
