In the 1960s, Chamberlain did an album. He included a Burt Bacharach-Hal David song. It was a god song, but in Chamberlain’s hands it went nowhere fast. They gave it to Dionne Warwick, a surefire success. Nothing.
It lingered for seven years. Various singers tried it with no success. Finally Herb Alpert (the A in A&M Records) gave it to a band he had just signed. They’d won the Battle of the Bands. He told them to come up with a new arrangement, not to listen to any of the prior ones.
Those “kids” made the new arrangement of the song a hit and it made them household names.
It was called “Close to You.”