 "Make It Easy on Yourself" served as the title cut of a 1969 album by Burt Bacharach with the track featuring Bacharach's vocals as well as his piano playing.The Carpenters included "Make It Easy on Yourself" in a medley of Bacharach/David songs featured on their May 1971 album release "Carpenters".The 1972 Johnny Mathis album "Song Sung Blue" - produced by Jerry Fuller - featured a version of "Make It Easy on Yourself"; issued as a single the track reached #16 on the U.S. Easy Listening chart and "bubbled under the Hot 100" with a #103 peak.