SONG & HIT DETAILS
Artist Name: DIONNE WARWICK
Song Author: Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
Year Recorded: 1966
SONG PROFILE
Message to Michael
Released March, 1966
Format 7″ single Scepter 12133
Recorded 1966 Paris, France
Message to Michael” is a 1966 Top Ten hit by Dionne Warwick, written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
The song’s lyrics are addressed to a bluebird by a woman in Kentucky whose sweetheart is vainly pursuing musical stardom in New Orleans; the woman asks the bluebird to take a message to Michael, asking him to return to her.
The song was first recorded as “Message to Martha” by Jerry Butler in the 1962 session in New York City which produced Butler’s hit “Make It Easy on Yourself”.
Covered by Adam Faith as “Message to Martha”, which reached #12 UK in November 1964, becoming Faith’s last Top 20 hit.