MY HAPPINESS

Created on 24/06/2008
Latest update on 11/03/2024

Artist: Jon & Sondra Steele
Author: Betty Peterson-Blasco/Borney Bergantine
Label: Damon
Year: 1947

Already written by Bergantine in '31 and published by Blasco Inc. two years later. Betty Peterson, the wife from music publisher Louis Blasco, wrote new lyrics for the song in 1947. N°2 US.

Covers:

1947:

Marlin Sisters [with harmonica combo The Columbians, detouring the second Petrillo ban]

1948:

Pied Pipers

1948:

Ella Fitzgerald [vocal only to comply with the Petrillo ban]

1948:

John Laurenz

1948:

Dorothy Morron Ensemble

1949:

Orkest Zonder Naam [as Eens Komt De Dag]

1953:

Elvis Presley [cut for $4 in June the first time he recorded at Sam Phillips' Memphis Recording Service; unique acetate, owned by a friend and auctioned in 2015 by his heirs for $300.000; reissued on The Complete 50's Masters box set]

1956:

Jimmy Beasley

1957:

Jim Reeves

1957:

Fats Domino

1958:

Connie Francis [n°2 US, n°4 UK]

1959:

Caterina Valente [as Mijn Souvenir; hit VL]

1959:

Bert Weedon

1959:

Selvera's [in Dutch]

1961:

Teresa Brewer

1963:

Paul & Paula

1975:

Frank Ifield

1976:

Freddy Fender

1982:

Ciska Peters [as Daar Droom Ik Van]

1990:

Country Rockers

1992:

Carol Fran & Clarence Hollimon

2002:

Helmut Lotti

2011:

Chris Isaak

2016:

John Prine [with Naomi Fiona]

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