Artist: Ruth Casey
Author: Churchill Kohlman
Label: Cadillac
Year: 1951
Obscure torch singer, a few months earlier than Johnnie Ray. Written by a nightporter in a laundromat in Pittsburgh, who had dreamed the song. Happens to the best, see Yesterday.
Covers:
Johnnie Ray [n°1 US for 11 weeks]
Stan Freberg [parody as Try; hit US]
Lynn Anderson [top 3 C&W]
Kevin Coyne [on Dynamite Daze]
André van Duin [as Als Je Huilt n°1 NL with wipers and washers on his kingsized glasses]
Crystal Gayle [n°1 C&W]
For Johnnie Ray a hit as big as the tears rolling down his face and all of his hysterical teenage fan's faces, years before they had an Elvis to clinch to. Opened a floodgate for tearjerkers.
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Arnold Rypens
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