CRY

Created on 06/06/2001
Latest update on 17/11/2023

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:

1951:

Johnnie Ray [n°1 US for 11 weeks]

1951:

Vera Lynn

1952:

Stan Freberg [parody as Try; hit US]

1952:

Four Knights

1960:

Sam Cooke

1960:

Roy Orbison

1961:

Timi Yuro

1962:

Ray Conniff

1963:

Paul Anka

1964:

Richard Anthony

1965:

Ray Charles

1966:

Ronnie Dove

1972:

Lynn Anderson [top 3 C&W]

1972:

Joe Bataan

1978:

Kevin Coyne [on Dynamite Daze]

1982:

André van Duin [as Als Je Huilt n°1 NL with wipers and washers on his kingsized glasses]

1984:

Roy Orbison

1986:

Crystal Gayle [n°1 C&W]

1989:

Connie Francis

2019:

Rickie Lee Jones

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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