Make It Easy on Yourself

"Make It Easy on Yourself"
Single by Jerry Butler
from the album Need to Belong & Other Great Performances
B-side"It's Too Late"
ReleasedJune 1962
RecordedSpring 1962[citation needed]
GenrePop, easy listening
Length2:30
LabelVee-Jay
Songwriter(s)Burt Bacharach, Hal David[1]
Producer(s)Calvin Carter
Jerry Butler singles chronology
"Island of Sirens"
(1961) 		"Make It Easy on Yourself"
(1962) 		"You Can Run But You Can't Hide"
(1965)

"Make It Easy on Yourself" is a popular song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David which was initially a hit for Jerry Butler in 1962. The best-known version is the 1965 recording by the Walker Brothers, for whom it was a No. 1 UK and Canadian hit. Dionne Warwick, who made a demo of the song in early 1962, later had a hit with it in 1970.

  1. ^ Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 96. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.