An extract from one of the best music blogs on the web. Certainly my favourite to check & read on daily basis!
http://theseconddisc.com/2013/06/03/wha ... bacharach/
"Another hidden gem given a reappraisal here is “Who Gets the Guy.” It may be the apotheosis of the Scepter years. The March 1971 A-side was her second-to-last single for the label and her final one written and produced by Bacharach and David. It barely made an impression on the charts (No. 57 Pop, No. 41 R&B) but touches on all of the elements that made their collaboration so special – musically, lyrically and vocally. “Who gets the guy at the end of the show?” Warwick asks, once again adopting the persona of someone done wrong in love. “I’d like to know…people say you have found another…Is it true what they say? When the picture’s over, will it be all over?” The strength and innate elegance of Warwick’s voice keeps her story from ever being maudlin, even when she later pleads “Tell me that the ending is a happy ending…” Hal David, in addition to ever-increasing the social awareness quotient in his lyrics (think “The Windows of the World’ or “Paper Mache”), gave mature voice to his protagonists in song, recognizing universal emotions in an elegant way. Bacharach, on “Who Gets the Guy,” employed his full range of recognizable orchestral colors. As with his best work, his arrangement is an integral part of the song’s very fabric: the rueful whistling that opens the song, the brass bleats that underscore the opening lines, the prevalent and varied horns that seem to comment on each lyric, the tack piano that lends an earthy feel, the organ that adds gravity. His melody lines had become even more fiendishly tricky to maneuver as the seventies dawned, but Warwick nonetheless glided effortlessly on extended phrases like “And that’s why I just keep listenin’ to the music to see if it’s happy or sad/Because if it’s happy that’s how I feel, and if it’s sad, well, that’s too bad for me…” It was too bad for all three parties that an era was almost over, but it was wonderfully encapsulated on this single – and singular – song."