The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA ( song ) - Wikipedia The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA ( song ) `` The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA '' Single by Donna Fargo from the album The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. Released March 1972 Format 7 '' Recorded Late 1971 Genre Country, Pop Length 2 : 30 Label Dot Songwriter ( s ) Donna Fargo Producer ( s ) Stan Silver Donna Fargo singles chronology `` The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA '' ( 1972 ) `` Funny Face '' ( 1972 ) `` The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA '' ( 1972 ) `` Funny Face '' ( 1972 ) `` The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA '' is a country and pop music song written, composed, and recorded by Donna Fargo. It is written in the voice of a newlywed girl, sung to her new husband. It has since become her signature song. Contents 1 Background 2 The copyright - infringement rumor 3 Commercial performance 4 Notable cover interpretations 5 Charts 6 References Background Fargo told Tom Roland in The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits that she wrote the song with a different title originally. `` It really started out to be ' Happiest Girl in the World, ' but the rhyme scheme got to be too unnatural, so I changed it to ' U.S.A. ' It kind of wrote itself after that. '' The copyright - infringement rumor A rumor later circulated that the line `` skip - a-dee - doo - dah '' was originally written as `` zip - a-dee - doo - dah, '' and that the Walt Disney Company subsequently sued Fargo as soon as they became aware of the song and its line, demanding that the original line be changed. Fargo has since put the rumor to rest, stating that `` skip - a-dee - doo - dah '' was indeed the original line and that no such lawsuit ever took place. Commercial Performance The song, Fargo 's debut single, became a number - one country hit in the spring of 1972, and subsequently became a hit on the Billboard Hot 100 pop music chart, peaking at No. 11, and Billboard Easy Listening Singles chart, where it reached No. 7. Billboard ranked it as the No. 55 song for 1972. The record earned Fargo a Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female, at the 15th Annual Grammy Awards on March 3, 1973. Notable Cover interpretations The song was covered by Tammy Wynette on her 1972 album My Man. Tanya Tucker also recorded the song in 1972 for her first album Delta Dawn. Her producer, Billy Sherrill, had planned for it to be her first single, but Tucker convinced him to allow her to record and release `` Delta Dawn '' instead. The song was sung by actress Daveigh Chase in a 2007 episode of the HBO television series Big Love. On April 15, 2012, a video of Lana Del Rey performing the song at a gig in 2009 leaked online. Charts Chart ( 1972 ) Peak position U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles U.S. Billboard Hot 100 11 U.S. Billboard Easy Listening Singles 7 Canadian RPM Country Tracks 16 New Zealand Listener 18 References Jump up ^ Roland, Tom, `` The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits '' ( Billboard Books, Watson - Guptill Publications, New York, 1991 ( ISBN 0 - 82 - 307553 - 2 ), p. 68. Jump up ^ Billboard Year - End Hot 100 singles of 1972 Jump up ^ Big Love -- Daveigh Chase -- The Happiest Girl. on YouTube Retrieved July 2, 2015. Jump up ^ `` Lana Del Rey -- Happiest Girl in the Whole USA ( Donna Fargo Cover ) '' on YouTube. Retrieved July 2, 2015. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits : 1944 -- 2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 119. Preceded by `` ( Lost Her Love ) On Our Last Date '' by Conway Twitty Billboard Hot Country Singles number - one single June 3, 1972 -- June 17, 1972 Succeeded by `` That 's Why I Love You Like I Do '' by Sonny James Donna Fargo Studio albums The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. My Second Album All About a Feeling Miss Donna Fargo Whatever I Say Means I Love You On the Move Notable singles `` The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. '' `` Funny Face '' `` Superman '' `` You Were Always There '' `` You Ca n't Be a Beacon If Your Light Do n't Shine '' `` Do n't Be Angry '' `` Mockingbird Hill '' `` That Was Yesterday '' `` Do I Love You ( Yes in Every Way ) '' `` Walk On By '' `` Soldier Boy '' Related articles Discography Dot Records Warner Bros. Records MCA Records RCA Records Mercury Records This 1970s country song -- related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. 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Question: who sings the happiest girl in the whole usa
Answer: Donna Fargo