The Originals © by Arnold Rypens

Artist: Dick Haymes
Author: Harry Warren/Mack Gordon
Label: Decca
Year: 1945

With the Victor Young orch. in musical Diamond Horseshoe (with Betty Grable), stacked with Warren/Gordon songs. Dick Haymes was a bariton crooner who in '39 replaced Frank Sinatra in Harry James' orchestra. Later he replaced that same Sinatra in Tommy Dorsey's orchestra and, again like Sinatra, went solo. Like Sinatra he was a singer and actor. See also: I Wish I Knew.

Covers:

1945:: Harry James [hit US]
1958:: Chet Baker
1958:: Nat King Cole
1959:: Nelson Riddle
1959:: Julie London
1960:: Sarah Vaughan
1960:: Nancy Wilson
1961:: Bobby Darin
1963:: Frankie Avalon
1965:: Jacqueline Boyer [as La Mer, la plage]
1966:: Chris Montez [n°3 UK]
1966:: Sylvie Vartan [as L'air qui balance]
1966:: Bretell's [as La Neige, la glace]
1966:: Nancy Sinatra
1966:: Conny Vandenbos [as Gewoon... Een Man]
1976:: Peter Allen
1976:: Al Martino
1980:: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
1989:: Sofie
1993:: Nina Simone
1997:: Tom, Dick & Harry
2005:: Michael Bublé
2005:: Carly Simon

Authors also wrote At Last, There Will Never Be Another You and Chattanooga Choo Choo.

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