List of Top 25 singles for 1958 in Australia
Table:
#	Title	Artist	Highest pos . reached	weeks at No . 1

1	Tom Dooley	The Kingston Trio	1	8 ( pkd # 1 1958 & 59 )

2	Catch a Falling Star	Perry Como	1	8

3	Volare ( Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu )	Dean Martin ; Domenico Modugno	1	7

4	April Love	Pat Boone	1	6

5	The Purple People Eater	Sheb Wooley	1	6

6	Bird Dog	The Everly Brothers	1	3

7	He 's Got the Whole World in His Hands	Laurie London	1	4

8	Twilight Time	The Platters	1	4

9	The Twelfth of Never	Johnny Mathis	1	1

10	A Pub with No Beer	Slim Dusty	1	1

11	It 's All in the Game	Tommy Edwards	1	1

12	Patricia	Perez Prado	1	1

13	When	The Kalin Twins	1	1

14	Witch Doctor	The Music of David Seville	1	1

15	Fascination	Nat King Cole	2

16	Just Married	Marty Robbins	2

17	Susie Darlin '	Robin Luke	3

18	Young and Warm and Wonderful	Tony Bennett	5

19	Chances Are	Johnny Mathis	3

20	Fever	Peggy Lee	2

Leveraging the tabular data as well as the context paragraphs provided at the end.

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Tom Dooley is a North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County , North Carolina , allegedly by Tom Dula . The song is best known today because of a hit version recorded in 1958 by The Kingston Trio . This version was a multi-format hit , which reached # 1 in Billboard and the Billboard R & B listing , and appeared in the Cashbox Country Music Top 20 . The song was selected as one of the American Songs of the Century by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) , the National Endowment for the Arts , and Scholastic Inc. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time . Tom Dooley fits within the wider genre of Appalachian sweetheart murder ballads . A local poet named Thomas Land wrote a song about the tragedy , titled Tom Dooley ( which was how Dula 's name was pronounced ) , shortly after Dula was hanged . In the documentary Appalachian Journey ( 1991 ) , folklorist Alan Lomax describes Frank Proffitt as the original source for the song , which was misleading only in that he did n't write it . There are several earlier known recordings , notably one that Grayson and Whitter made in 1929 , approximately 10 years before Proffitt cut his own recording . The Kingston Trio took their version from Frank Warner 's singing . Warner had learned the song from Proffitt , who learned it from his Aunt Nancy Prather , whose parents had known both Laura Foster and Tom Dula . In a 1967 interview , Nick Reynolds of the Kingston Trio recounts first hearing the song from another performer , and then being criticized and sued for taking credit for the song . Supported by the testimony of Anne and Frank Warner , Frank Proffitt was eventually acknowledged by the courts as the preserver of the original version of the song , and the Kingston Trio were ordered to pay royalties to him for their uncredited use of it .
The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s . The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard , Bob Shane , and Nick Reynolds . It rose to international popularity , fueled by unprecedented sales of LP records , and helped alter the direction of popular music in the U.S . The Kingston Trio was one of the most prominent groups of the era 's pop-folk boom that started in 1958 with the release of their first album and its hit recording of Tom Dooley , which sold over three million copies as a single . The Trio released nineteen albums that made Billboard 's Top 100 , fourteen of which ranked in the top 10 , and five of which hit the number 1 spot . Four of the group 's LPs charted among the 10 top-selling albums for five weeks in November and December 1959 , a record unmatched for more than 50 years , and the group still ranks in the all-time lists of many of Billboard 's cumulative charts , including those for most weeks with a number 1 album , most total weeks charting an album , most number 1 albums , most consecutive number 1 albums , and most top ten albums . In 1961 , the Trio was described as the most envied , the most imitated , and the most successful singing group , folk or otherwise , in all show business and the undisputed kings of the folksinging rage by every yardstick . The Trio 's massive record sales in its early days made acoustic folk music commercially viable , paving the way for singer-songwriter , folk rock , and Americana artists who followed in their wake . The Kingston Trio continues to tour as of 2020 with musicians who licensed the name and trademark in 2017 .
Catch a Falling Star , written by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss , is a song made famous by Perry Como 's hit version , recorded and released in late 1957 . It was Como 's last # 1 hit , reaching # 1 on the Billboard Most Played by Jockeys chart but not in the overall top 100 , where it reached # 2 . [ citation needed ] It was the first single to receive a Recording Industry Association of America gold record certification , on March 14 , 1958 . The song also topped the Australian charts in 1958 . The single won Como the 1959 Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance , Male . Its melody is based on a theme from Brahms ' Academic Festival Overture . The Como version features the Ray Charles Singers , who sing the refrain as a repeated round . The song has been featured in several films , including The Princess Diaries , Love Actually , Everybody 's Fine , Welcome to Me , and Never Been Kissed . It was often featured in the TV series Lost , and was most often associated with Claire Littleton and her baby , Aaron . It is also featured in an episode of the FX black comedy Mr Inbetween . A musical phrase from the song appears in John Williams 's score for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull during the motorcycle chase through the college .
Pierino Ronald Perry Como ( /ˈkoʊmoʊ/ ; May 18 , 1912 - May 12 , 2001 ) was an American singer , actor and television personality . During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for RCA Victor for 44 years , after signing with the label in 1943 . Mr. C. , as he was nicknamed , sold millions of records and pioneered a weekly musical variety television show . His weekly television shows and seasonal specials were broadcast throughout the world . In the official RCA Records Billboard magazine memorial , his life was summed up in these few words : 50 years of music and a life well lived . An example to all . Como received five Emmys from 1955 to 1959 , a Christopher Award ( 1956 ) and shared a Peabody Award with good friend Jackie Gleason in 1956 . He was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame in 1990 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1987 . Posthumously , Como received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002 ; he was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2006 . He has the distinction of having three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in radio , television , and music .
Nel blu , dipinto di blu ( Italian pronunciation : [ nel ˈblu diˈpinto di ˈblu ] ; In the blue [ sky ] [ as I was ] painted blue or In the blue-painted blue [ sky ] ) , popularly known as Volare ( pronounced [ voˈlaːre ] ; To fly ) , is a song recorded by Italian singer-songwriter Domenico Modugno . Written by Franco Migliacci and Domenico Modugno , it was released as a single on 1 February 1958 . Winning the eighth Sanremo Music Festival , the song was chosen as the Italian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest in 1958 , where it won third place out of ten songs in total . The combined sales of all the versions of the song exceed 22 million copies worldwide , making it one of the most popular Eurovision songs of all time and the most successful Sanremo Music Festival song ever . It spent five non-consecutive weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in August and September 1958 and was Billboard 's number-one single for the year . Modugno 's recording subsequently became the first Grammy winner for Record of the Year and Song of the Year at the 1st Annual Grammy Awards in 1959 . The song was later translated into several languages and it was recorded by a wide range of performers .
Dean Paul Martin , born Dino Paul Crocetti , ( June 7 , 1917 - December 25 , 1995 ) was an American actor , singer and comedian . One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the mid-20th century , Martin was nicknamed The King of Cool for his seemingly effortless charisma and self-assurance . Martin gained his career breakthrough together with fellow comedian Jerry Lewis , billed as Martin & Lewis , in 1946 . They performed in nightclubs and later had numerous appearances on radio , television and in films . Following an acrimonious ending of the partnership in 1956 , Martin pursued a solo career as a performer and actor . Martin established himself as a notable singer , recording numerous contemporary songs as well as standards from the Great American Songbook . He became one of the most popular acts in Las Vegas and was known for his friendship with fellow artists Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. , who together formed the Rat Pack . Starting in 1964 , Martin was the host of the television variety program The Dean Martin Show , which centred on Martin 's singing talents and was characterized by his relaxed , easy-going demeanour . From 1974 to 1984 he was roastmaster on the popular Dean Martin Celebrity Roast , which drew notable celebrities , comedians and politicians . Throughout his career , Martin performed in concert stages , nightclubs , audio recordings and appeared in 85 film and television productions . His relaxed , warbling , crooning voice earned him dozens of hit singles , including his signature songs Memories Are Made of This , That 's Amore , Everybody Loves Somebody , You 're Nobody till Somebody Loves You , Sway , Ai n't That a Kick in the Head ? and Volare .
Domenico Modugno ( Italian pronunciation : [ doˈmeːniko moˈduɲɲo ] ; 9 January 1928 - 6 August 1994 ) was an Italian singer , songwriter , actor , guitarist , and later in life , a member of the Italian Parliament . He is known for his 1958 international hit song Nel blu dipinto di blu , for which he received Grammy Awards for Record and Song of the Year . He is considered the first Italian cantautore .
April Love is a popular song with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster . It was written as the theme song for a 1957 film of the same name starring Pat Boone and Shirley Jones and directed by Henry Levin . Helped by the release of the film , April Love became a number-one hit in the United States for Pat Boone , and spent twenty-six weeks in the Billboard Hot 100 charts ( it spent 6 weeks at number 1 ) . In 1958 , it was nominated for an Oscar for Best Music , Original Song but lost out to All the Way .
Patrick Charles Eugene Boone ( born June 1 , 1934 ) is an American singer , composer , actor , writer , television personality , motivational speaker , and spokesman . He was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s . He sold more than 45 million records , had 38 top-40 hits , and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood films . According to Billboard , Boone was the second-biggest charting artist of the late 1950s , behind only Elvis Presley , and was ranked at No . 9 in its listing of the Top 100 Top 40 Artists 1955-1995 . Until the 2010s , Boone held the Billboard record for spending 220 consecutive weeks on the charts with one or more songs each week . At the age of 23 , he began hosting a half-hour ABC variety television series , The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom , which aired for 115 episodes ( 1957-1960 ) . Many musical performers , including Edie Adams , Andy Williams , Pearl Bailey , and Johnny Mathis , made appearances on the show . His cover versions of rhythm and blues hits had a noticeable effect on the development of the broad popularity of rock and roll . Elvis Presley was the opening act for a 1955 Pat Boone show in Cleveland , Ohio . As an author , Boone had a number-one bestseller in the 1950s ( Twixt Twelve and Twenty , Prentice-Hall ) . In the 1960s , he focused on gospel music and is a member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame .
The Purple People Eater is a novelty song written and performed by Sheb Wooley , which reached No . 1 in the Billboard pop charts in 1958 from June 9 to July 14 , reached No . 12 overall in the UK singles chart and topped the Australian charts .
Shelby Fredrick Sheb Wooley ( April 10 , 1921 - September 16 , 2003 ) was an American actor and singer , best known for his 1958 novelty song The Purple People Eater . He played Ben Miller , brother of Frank Miller , in the film High Noon ; played Travis Cobb in The Outlaw Josey Wales ; and also had a co-starring role as scout Pete Nolan in the television series Rawhide . Additionally , Wooley recorded a series of novelty songs under the name Ben Colder , notably a # 6 country hit Almost Persuaded No . 2 . Wooley is also credited as the voice actor who produced the Wilhelm scream sound effect .
Bird Dog is a song written by Boudleaux Bryant and recorded by the Everly Brothers . It was released in 1958 and was a # 1 hit on the Billboard Country Chart . The song also hit number two on the U.S . Billboard Hot 100 as well as peaking at number two for three weeks on the R & B charts . The song deals with the singer 's dismay that a boy by the name of Johnny is trying to take his girlfriend away . The singer calls him a bird dog as a result of his behavior . The musical structure is relatively unusual in that it has a 12 bar blues stanza and an 8 bar blues chorus .
The Everly Brothers were an American country-influenced rock and roll duo , known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing . Consisting of Isaac Donald Don Everly ( born February 1 , 1937 ) and Phillip Phil Jason Everly ( January 19 , 1939 - January 3 , 2014 ) , the duo was raised in a musical family , first appearing on radio singing along with their father Ike Everly and mother Margaret Everly as The Everly Family in the 1940s . When the brothers were still in high school , they gained the attention of prominent Nashville musicians like Chet Atkins , who began to groom them for national attention . They began writing and recording their own music in 1956 , and their first hit song came in 1957 , with Bye Bye Love , written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant . The song hit number 1 in the spring of 1957 , and additional hits would follow through 1958 , many of them written by the Bryants , including Wake Up Little Susie , All I Have to Do Is Dream , and Problems . In 1960 , they signed with the major label Warner Bros. Records and recorded Cathy 's Clown , written by the brothers themselves , which was their biggest selling single . The brothers enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 1961 , and their output dropped off , though additional hit singles continued through 1962 , with That 's Old Fashioned ( That 's the Way Love Should Be ) being their last top-10 hit . Long-simmering disputes with Wesley Rose , the CEO of Acuff-Rose Music , which managed the group , and growing drug usage in the 1960s , as well as changing tastes in popular music , led to the group 's decline in popularity in its native U.S. , though the brothers continued to release hit singles in the U.K. and Canada , and had many highly successful tours throughout the 1960s . In the early 1970s , the brothers began releasing solo recordings , and in 1973 they officially broke up . Starting in 1983 , the brothers got back together , and would continue to perform periodically until Phil 's death in 2014 . The group was highly influential on the music of the generation that followed it . Many of the top acts of the 1960s were heavily influenced by the close-harmony singing and acoustic guitar playing of the Everly Brothers , including the Beatles , the Beach Boys , the Bee Gees , and Simon & Garfunkel .
He 's Got the Whole World in His Hands is a traditional African American spiritual , first published in 1927 . It became an international pop hit in 1957-58 in a recording by English singer Laurie London , and has been recorded by many other singers and choirs .
Laurie London ( born 19 January 1944 ) is an English singer , who achieved fame as a boy singer of the 1950s , for both his gospel and novelty songs recording in both English and German . He is best known for his hit single of the spiritual song He 's Got the Whole World in His Hands .
Twilight Time is a popular song with lyrics by Buck Ram and music by the Three Suns ( Morty Nevins , Al Nevins , and Artie Dunn ) . Ram said that he originally wrote it as a poem , without music , while in college . Original instrumental recordings of Twilight Time included those made respectively by the Three Suns ( 1944 ) and Les Brown & His Band of Renown ( 1945 ) . Les Brown 's version of Twilight Time was recorded in November 1944 and released in early 1945 as the B-side of Sentimental Journey , the first recording of that song . While the A-side featured Doris Day 's vocals , Twilight Time was an instrumental .
The Platters are an American vocal group formed in 1952 . They are one of the most successful vocal groups of the early rock and roll era . Originally , their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition and the burgeoning new genre . The act has gone through several personnel changes , with one of the most successful incarnations comprising lead tenor Tony Williams , Paul Robi , Herb Reed , and Zola Taylor . The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1955 and 1967 , including four number-one hits . The Platters are one of the first African-American groups to be accepted as a major chart group and are one of the most successful vocal groups in the world .
The Twelfth of Never is a popular song written in 1956 and first recorded by Johnny Mathis the following year . The title is a popular expression , which is used as the date of a future occurrence that will never come to pass . In the case of the song , the 12th of Never is given as the date on which the singer will stop loving his beloved , thus indicating that he will always love her . Mathis initially disliked the song , which was released as the flip side to his number 1 hit single Chances Are . It was written by Jerry Livingston and Paul Francis Webster , the tune ( except for the bridge ) being adapted from The Riddle Song ( also known as I Gave My Love a Cherry ) , an old English folk song . Mathis 's original version reached number 9 on what is now called the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA in 1957 . A version by Cliff Richard was released in 1964 and reached number 8 in the UK . Donny Osmond 's version , produced by Mike Curb and Don Costa , was his second number 1 single in the UK , spending a single week at the top of the UK Singles Chart in March 1973 . In the U.S. it peaked at number 8 .
John Royce Mathis ( born September 30 , 1935 ) is an American singer-songwriter of popular music . Starting his career with singles of standard music , he became highly popular as an album artist , with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status and 73 making the Billboard charts to date . Mathis has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for three separate recordings . Although he is frequently described as a romantic singer , his discography includes traditional pop , Brazilian and Spanish music , soul , rhythm and blues , show tunes , Tin Pan Alley , soft rock , blues , country music , and even a few disco songs for his album Mathis Magic in 1979 . Mathis has also recorded six albums of Christmas music . In a 1968 interview , Mathis cited Lena Horne , Nat King Cole , and Bing Crosby among his musical influences .
A Pub with No Beer is the title of a humorous country song made famous by country singers Slim Dusty ( in Australia , the United Kingdom and the United States ) and Bobbejaan Schoepen ( in Belgium , the Netherlands , Germany and Austria ) . The song was written about his local pub at Taylors Arm , New South Wales , adapted by Gordon Parsons from the original poem A Pub Without Beer by Irish poet Dan Sheahan of Ingham , North Queensland , in the Day Dawn Hotel , now known as Lees Hotel , Ingham , Queensland . The song gently explores the devastation caused to a pub and its community when its beer supply is interrupted . It is believed the song was first performed in public by Gordon Parsons in 1954 at the 50th birthday of George Thomas , a resident of Creek Ridge Road , Glossodia ( near Windsor in Sydney ) . It was performed with an extra verse that was dropped from Slim Dusty 's recorded version , because it contained elements of blue humour . In January 2018 , as part of Triple M 's Ozzest 100 , the 'most Australian ' songs of all time , A Pub with No Beer was ranked number 45 .
Slim Dusty , AO MBE ( born David Gordon Kirkpatrick ; 13 June 1927 - 19 September 2003 ) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter , guitarist and producer . He was an Australian cultural icon and one of the country 's most awarded stars , with a career spanning nearly seven decades and producing numerous recordings . He was known to record songs in the legacy of Australia , particularly of bush life and renowned Australian bush poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson that represented the lifestyle . The music genre was coined the bush ballad , a style first made popular by Buddy Williams , the first artist to perform the genre in Australia , and also for his many trucking songs . Dusty was the first Australian to have a No . 1 international hit song , with a version of Gordon Parsons ' A Pub with No Beer . He received an unequalled 37 Golden Guitar and two Australian Recording Industry Association ( ARIA ) awards and was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and Australian Roll of Renown . At the time of his death , at the age of 76 , Dusty had been working on his 106th album for EMI Records . In 2007 , his domestic record sales in Australia surpassed seven million . During his lifetime , Dusty was considered an Australian National Treasure . He performed Waltzing Matilda , a very famous song in Australia , at the closing ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games .
It 's All in the Game was a 1958 hit for Tommy Edwards . Carl Sigman composed the lyrics in 1951 to a wordless 1911 composition titled Melody in A Major , written by Charles G. Dawes , later Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge . It is the only No . 1 single in the U.S. to have been co-written by a U.S. Vice President or a Nobel Peace Prize laureate ( Dawes was both ) . The song has become a pop standard , with cover versions by dozens of artists , some of which have been minor hit singles . Edwards ' song ranked at No . 47 on the 2018 list of The Hot 100 's All-Time Top 600 Songs .
Thomas Jefferson Edwards ( October 15 , 1922 - October 23 , 1969 ) was an American singer and songwriter . His biggest-selling record was with the multi-million-selling song It 's All in the Game .
Patricia is a popular song with music by Pérez Prado and lyrics by Bob Marcus , published in 1958 . The song is best known in an instrumental version by Prado 's orchestra that became the last record to ascend to No.1 on the Billboard Jockeys and Top 100 charts , both of which gave way the next week to the then newly-introduced Billboard Hot 100 chart . The song was also No . 1 on the R & B Best Sellers for two weeks . Prado 's 1958 recording became a gold record . Billboard ranked it as the No . 5 song for 1958 . Prado 's Patricia entered the U.S. Cash Box chart week ending June 7 , 1958 , making No . 1 on that chart for 4 weeks from the week ending July 26 , 1958 . Prado 's Patricia entered the U.K. singles chart in the week of July 25 , 1958 , peaking at No . 8 ( week ending September 5 , 1958 ) during a 16-week chart run . In 1960 , Prado released a new stereo recording of the tune , and re-recorded it a third time in a twist version issued in 1962 that re-charted in the U.S. Perry Como 's recording of Patricia from 1950 bears no resemblance to Prado 's tune .
Dámaso Pérez Prado ( Spanish : [ ˈpeɾes ˈpɾaðo ] ; December 11 , 1916 - September 14 , 1989 ) was a Cuban bandleader , pianist and composer who popularized the mambo in the late 1940s . He frequently made brief appearances in films , primarily of the rumberas genre . The success of his orchestra and hits such as Mambo No . 5 earned him the nickname King of the Mambo . His stage name was simply Pérez Prado , although his brother Pantaleón also used the same name in the 1970s , which led to confusion . Pérez Prado became a naturalized citizen of Mexico in 1980 , where he died in 1989 . His son , Pérez Jr. , continues to direct the Pérez Prado Orchestra in Mexico City to this day .
When is a popular song written by Jack Reardon and Paul Evans and published in 1958 .
The Kalin Twins ( born February 16 , 1934 ) were a pop music recording and songwriting duo , comprising twin brothers Harold Kalin and Herbert Kalin ( died August 24 , 2005 and July 21 , 2006 , respectively ) . The Kalin Twins , who were known affectionately as Hal and Herbie , are best known for their 1958 hit When .
Witch Doctor is a song written and performed by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. , and released in 1958 by Liberty Records under the stage name David Seville .
David Dave Seville is a fictional character , the producer and manager of the fictional singing group Alvin and the Chipmunks . The character was created by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. Bagdasarian had used the name David Seville as his stage name prior to the creation of the Chipmunks , while writing and recording novelty records in the 1950s . One of the records , recorded under the David Seville stage name , was Witch Doctor , featuring a sped-up high-pitched vocal technique that Bagdasarian would later use in The Chipmunk Song ( Christmas Do n't Be Late ) , which would introduce both Alvin and the Chipmunks as a singing group and Bagdasarian 's music producer Dave . Bagdasarian would go on to create The Alvin Show , based on the Alvin and the Chipmunks group , where he voiced the semi-fictional character David Seville , based largely on himself , with Alvin based on Ross 's sometimes rebellious son Adam . Bagdasarian Sr. died in 1972 , and his son ( Adam 's brother ) Ross Bagdasarian Jr. took over ownership of Bagdasarian Productions . He reprised the David Seville character , first in a series of novelty albums beginning with 1980 's Chipmunk Punk . Bagdasarian Jr. subsequently assumed the role on the TV series Alvin and the Chipmunks , which ran in original episodes from 1983-1990 . Bagdasarian Jr. has voiced David Seville in all official animated and recorded incarnations of David Seville since taking over for his father in the 1970s , including TV series , animated specials , and direct-to-video productions . He most recently voiced the character in the 2015 reboot of the Alvin and the Chipmunks television show . Actor Jason Lee also portrays David Seville in a live action/CGI films starring Alvin and the Chipmunks which uses a combination of live-action acting and computer animation . While Ross Bagdasarian , Jr. does not do any voices for the film series , the films are all produced in association with Bagdasarian Productions , which owns the rights to all of the characters .
Fascination is a popular waltz song with music ( 1904 ) by Fermo Dante Marchetti and lyrics ( 1905 ) by Maurice de Féraudy . It was first published in Hamburg ( Anton J. Benjamin ) and Paris ( Édition F. D. Marchetti ) in 1904 in a version for piano solo ( 'Valse Tzigane ' ) . As a song with de Féraudy 's words , it was first performed by the French music-hall singer Paulette Darty , in 1905 , and published the same year .
Nathaniel Adams Coles ( March 17 , 1919 - February 15 , 1965 ) , known professionally as Nat King Cole , was an American vocalist and jazz pianist . He recorded over one hundred songs that became hits on the pop charts . His trio was the model for small jazz ensembles that followed . Cole also acted in films and on television and performed on Broadway . He was the first African-American man to host an American television series . He was the father of singer/songwriter Natalie Cole .
Just Married is a 2003 American romantic comedy film directed by Shawn Levy , written by Sam Harper , and stars Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy . Produced by Robert Simonds , the film was successful at the box office despite generally negative critical reviews .
Martin David Robinson ( September 26 , 1925 - December 8 , 1982 ) , known professionally as Marty Robbins , was an American singer , songwriter , actor , multi-instrumentalist , and NASCAR racing driver , and was one of the most popular and successful country and western singers for most of his nearly four-decade career , Robbins often topped the country music charts , and several of his songs also had crossover success as pop hits .
Susie Darlin ' is a 1958 single by Robin Luke . Luke 's rendition peaked at # 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and went to # 1 on the CHUM Chart in 1958 . A cover version by Tommy Roe had Susie Darlin ' re-enter the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962 and peaked at # 35 . Susie Darlin ' sold a million copies in the United States .
Robin Luke ( born 20 March 1942 , Los Angeles , California , United States ) is an American rock and roll singer who is best known for his 1958 song , Susie Darlin ' . He later worked as a University professor in Marketing . Luke has been enshrined in the Rockabilly Hall of Fame .
Young And Warm And Wonderful is a popular song with music by Lou Singer and lyrics by Hy Zaret , published in 1958 . The best-known version of the song was a recording by Tony Bennett . This recording was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 41172 . It reached the Billboard magazine charts on June 30 , 1958 , its only week on the chart . On the Disk Jockey chart , it charted at # 23 ; on the Best Seller chart , at # 42 ; on the composite chart of the top 100 songs , it reached # 57 .
Anthony Dominick Benedetto ( born August 3 , 1926 ) , known professionally as Tony Bennett , is an American singer of traditional pop standards , big band , show tunes , and jazz . He is also a painter , having created works under the name Anthony Benedetto that are on permanent public display in several institutions . He is the founder of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria , Queens , New York . Born and raised in Astoria to an Italian-American family , Bennett began singing at an early age . He fought in the final stages of World War II as a U.S. Army infantryman in the European Theater . Afterward , he developed his singing technique , signed with Columbia Records and had his first number-one popular song with Because of You in 1951 . Several top hits such as Rags to Riches followed in early 1953 . He then refined his approach to encompass jazz singing . He reached an artistic peak in the late 1950s with albums such as The Beat of My Heart and Basie Swings , Bennett Sings . In 1962 , Bennett recorded his signature song , I Left My Heart in San Francisco . His career and personal life experienced an extended downturn during the height of the rock music era . Bennett staged a comeback in the late 1980s and 1990s , putting out gold record albums again and expanding his reach to the MTV generation while keeping his musical style intact .
Chances Are is a popular song with music by Robert Allen and lyrics by Al Stillman . It was published in 1957 . The song was one of many compositions by the Stillman-Allen team that were chart hits in the 1950s . It was listed on Billboard 's Most Played by Jockeys survey for Johnny Mathis , charting in 1957 , and was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1998 . The song reached No . 4 on Billboard 's Best Sellers in Stores survey , along with its flip The Twelfth of Never , which Mathis initially disliked . It became a gold record . The song was also included on the 1958 Mathis compilation Johnny 's Greatest Hits . Mathis re-recorded the song in 1996 as a duet with Liza Minnelli for her album Gently .
Fever is a song written by Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell , who used the pseudonym John Davenport . It was originally recorded by American R & B singer Little Willie John for his debut album , Fever ( 1956 ) , and released as a single in April of the same year . The song managed to top the Billboard R & B Best Sellers in the US and peak at number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 . It was received positively by music critics and included on several lists of the best songs during the time it was released . It has been covered by numerous artists from various musical genres , most notably by Peggy Lee , whose rendition became the most widely known version of Fever and the singer 's signature song . Lee 's version contained rewritten lyrics different from the original and an altered music arrangement . It became a top-five hit on the music charts in the UK and Australia in addition to entering the top ten in the US and the Netherlands . Fever was nominated in three categories at the 1st Annual Grammy Awards in 1959 , including Record of the Year and Song of the Year . Other notable cover versions of Fever include those by Elvis Presley , Boney M. , Madonna , Christina Aguilera , Michael Bublé , The McCoys , La Lupe and Beyoncé . Madonna released it as a single from her fifth studio album Erotica ( 1992 ) in March 1993 through Warner Bros . It topped the charts in Finland and the Hot Dance Club Songs in the US in addition to charting in the top 50 in many other countries . Madonna promoted Fever by filming and releasing a music video directed by Stéphane Sednaoui and performing the song on several television shows as well as her 1993 The Girlie Show World Tour .
Norma Deloris Egstrom ( May 26 , 1920 - January 21 , 2002 ) , known professionally as Peggy Lee , was an American jazz and popular music singer , songwriter , composer , and actress , over a career spanning six decades . From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman 's big band , Lee created a sophisticated persona , writing music for films , acting , and recording conceptual record albums combining poetry and music .