SUNFLOWER

Created on 13/04/2006
Latest update on 17/08/2017

Artist: Russ Morgan Orch.
Author: Mack David
Label: Decca
Year: 1949

Author Mack David also wrote Bibbedi Bobbedi Boo and the English translations of Cerisier rose et pommier blanc and La Vie en rose.

Covers:

1949:

Frank Sinatra

1949:

Ray McKinley Orch.

1963:

Jérolas [as Hello Dolly in French and before Armstrong]

1964:

Carol Channing [as Hello Dolly in musical Hello Dolly; author Jerry Herman claimed he never heard Sunflower, but in the interest of the Broadway production and the release of the film (which was in jeopardy), he paid a settlement]

1964:

Louis Armstrong [n°1 US as Hello Dolly; recorded six weeks before Channing]

1964:

Kenny Ball [idem]

1964:

Philippe Clay

1964:

Petula Clark

1964:

Ella Fitzgerald

1965:

Bobby Darin

1965:

Bachelors [hit UK]

1969:

Barbra Streisand & Louis Armstrong [as Hello Dolly in film Hello Dolly]

1972:

Cab Calloway [in new Broadway version of Hello Dolly]

1972:

Annie Cordy

2006:

Helmut Lotti

2017:

Bette Midler [all as Hello Dolly]

Glen Campbell's Sunflower ('77) was written by Neil Diamond.

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