The movie “A House is Not a Home” was a forgettable film about famous madame Polly Adler, and this song didn’t appear in the film, which makes it an exploitation song. But Dionne Warwick did such a fine job with this Hal David and Burt Bacharach tune that I’m still surprised it didn’t do better on the charts in 1964. She does a magnificent job with this song. (I love her cheekbones, too.) Note that by now Bacharach doesn’t let little things like time signatures get in his way. He lets the tune and its pulse follow the lyrical line.
Dionne Warwick: “A House is Not a Home”
