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Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 4:22pm

Do you know the way to San Jose?

I've been away so long
I may go wrong and lose my way

Do you know the way to San Jose

I'm going back to find some piece of mind San Jose

L. A. is a great big freeway
Put a hundred down and buy a car

In a week - or maybe two - they'll make you a star

Weeks turn into years and quickly pass
And all the stars there never were a parkin' cars and pumpin' gas

I've got lots of friends in San Jose

Wo oh oh oh

Can't wait to get back to San Jose

Wo oh oh oh

Do You know the way to San Jose?

Music: Burt Bachrach
Lyrics: Hal David

Copyright © ASCAP. All rights reserved.

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 4:25pm

Sounds familiar.

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 4:25pm

Mary Ethel has returned & all is now right with the world

Welcome back . Was it the Baja Marimba Band that recorded this or someone else ?

Poster Emeritus

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 4:25pm

Especialy if you're Dionne Warwick, freak...

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 4:27pm

I really don't like this song anymore. My family moved to the lower Bay Area and I fly into San Jose. Whenever someone takes me to the airport they sing that damned song!

"Friends are the people you chose as family."....Me.

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 4:30pm

That's a shame, Yenta.

Y'know, I just realized, they NEVER play "Big D" at DFW...

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 4:30pm

Dionne Warwick really faded fast after a meteroic rise. What happened ?

This song & others like it mirror a time when we had a more peaceful & less dangerous pre terrorist world. Ah for the good old days

Poster Emeritus

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 4:33pm

EXCELLENT Question, Mr Roxy

I believe Warwick focus pretty much on the club circuit now.

I saw her perform at a Club in Atlantic City in the 1980s...

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 4:34pm

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#10

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 4:35pm

More peaceful? Wasn't this song released in the late '60s? Vietnam War. Protestors. Civil Rights movement. The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy. The Tate-LaBianca murders. Umm yeah, peaceful times man.

#11

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 4:43pm

Marquise is correct.

Dionne Warwick received the Grammy for "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" in 1968.

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#12

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 4:43pm

Thanks Sueleen, but my family prefers Stanford.

"Friends are the people you chose as family."....Me.

#13

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 4:48pm

Speaking of Warwick, fans should check out the latest 2-fer re-releases of her classic albums on compact disc from Rhino Handmade. They're online exclusives and some of her best albums are featured.

#14

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 4:50pm

"San Jose" was featured on this album and was the flip side to the single of "The Theme from Valley of the Dolls"...both sides charted with "Valley" being Warwick's biggest hit of the decade earning her her first Gold record.

Updated On: 7/24/05 at 04:50 PM

#15

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 4:55pm

That is an INTENSE album cover :0)

-Anyone want to turn anarchist with me?

"Bless you and all who know you, oh wise and penguined one." ~YouWantItWhen????

Updated On: 7/24/05 at 04:55 PM

#16

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 5:00pm

I was wrong "Valley" was the A side and "I Say A Little Prayer" was the B side and was her first double-sided hit. "San Jose" was the follow up single to "Valley/Prayer" in 1968.

Updated On: 7/24/05 at 05:00 PM

#17

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 5:01pm

That's a cool Lp cover. I have it framed in my den.

#18

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 5:22pm

What I find interesting is that Warwick recorded the title songs for the original VALLEY OF THE DOLLS movie AND its remake for TV in 1981.

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#19

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 6:21pm

oh i looooooooove dionne! esp "walk on by". so sad. mmm. everything she did with burt, man, it's classic.

#20

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 6:26pm

"Walk on By":

I just can't get over losing you
And so if I seem broken and blue
Walk on by, walk on by

Foolish pride
Is all that I have left
So let me hide
The tears and the sadness you gave me
When you said goodbye

Walk on by
and walk on by
and walk by (don't stop)

Walk on by, walk on by

Foolish pride
Is all that I have left

So let me hide
The tears and the sadness you gave me
When you said goodbye

Walk on by (don't stop)
and walk on by (don't stop)
and walk by (don't stop)

Music: Burt Bachrach
Lyrics: Hal David

Copyright © ASCAP. All rights reserved.

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#21

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 9:30pm

I have always loved this song-- and one of the things I love about it is that people HEAR it as a happy, lighthearted song, when it's not at all. Look at this line:

L. A. is a great big freeway
Put a hundred down and buy a car

In a week - or maybe two - they'll make you a star

Weeks turn into years and quickly pass
And all the stars there never were a parkin' cars and pumpin' gas

So they came up to LA, thought they would find stardom and are now working at a gas station. The next lines talk about how they have friends in San Jose and everything will be OK once they get home to San Jose.

I love it! Such an eloquent song.

#22

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 11:22pm

I love it by both Warwick and The Carpenters.

ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!

#23

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 11:22pm

Me2

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#24

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/25/05 at 7:38am

Loves me some Dianne n' B&D - all the songs listed plus "I Say A Little Prayer". Among the greatest songs of the '60s.

And that LP cover is fierce - though it does give one pause that she looks nothing remotely like that today.

"If you really loved me, you'd enjoy my cold, joyless gloom."

#25

re: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Posted: 7/25/05 at 8:43am

See how selective the memory has to be for nostalgia? A more peaceful time! RIGHT. The Cold War raged on and anybody who came of age from the '50s on had the sense of palpable dread that Russia had its nukes pointed right at us.

Riots. Assassinations. SUCH a great time!

And Dionne Warwick performed a lot of great Bachrach/David numbers, then she stopped. Years later she started the Dionne Warwick Fund for AIDS and NOT ONE RED CENT actually made it to any AIDS program or person with AIDS. Her own indulgent expenses were completely covered, as you might imagine. She also was spokeshill for the Psychic Friends Network. Which went bankrupt.

Truly, that's what friends are for.

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