My Happiness (popular song)
| "My Happiness" | |
|---|---|
| Song | |
| Published | 1948 |
| Writer(s) |
Betty Peterson Blasco Borney Bergantine |
| Language | English |
"My Happiness" is a pop music standard which was initially made famous in the mid-twentieth century.
High profile versions
| "My Happiness" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Connie Francis | ||||
| from the album Connie's Greatest Hits | ||||
| B-side | "Never Before" | |||
| Released | 1958 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Genre | Easy listening | |||
| Length |
2:28 (A-side) 2:49 (B-side) | |||
| Label | MGM Records K 12738 | |||
| Writer(s) |
Betty Peterson Blasco Borney Bergantine | |||
| Producer(s) | Morton Craft and Jesse Kaye | |||
| Connie Francis US singles chronology | ||||
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| "My Happiness" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Connie Francis | ||||
| B-side | "Happy Days and Lonely Nights" | |||
| Released | 1959 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Genre | Easy listening | |||
| Length |
2:28 (A-side) 2:49 (B-side) | |||
| Label | MGM Records 45-MGM-1001 | |||
| Writer(s) |
Betty Peterson Blasco Borney Bergantine | |||
| Producer(s) | Morton Craft and Jesse Kaye | |||
| Connie Francis UK singles chronology | ||||
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| "My Happiness" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Connie Francis | ||||
| B-side | "You Always Hurt the One You Love" | |||
| Released | 1959 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Genre | Easy listening | |||
| Length |
2:28 (A-side) 2:25 (B-side) | |||
| Label |
MGM Records M 21 100 (distributed by Electrola) | |||
| Writer(s) |
Betty Peterson Blasco Borney Bergantine | |||
| Producer(s) | Morton Craft and Jesse Kaye | |||
| Connie Francis German Singles chronology | ||||
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| "My Happiness" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Connie Francis | ||||
| B-side | "Never Before" | |||
| Released | 1960 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Genre | Easy listening | |||
| Length |
2:28 (A-side) 2:49 (B-side) | |||
| Label |
MGM Records 61 001 (distributed by Polydor) | |||
| Writer(s) |
Betty Peterson Blasco Borney Bergantine | |||
| Producer(s) | Morton Craft and Jesse Kaye | |||
| Connie Francis US singles chronology | ||||
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An unpublished version of the melody with different lyrics was written by Borney Bergantine in 1933.
The most famous version of the song, with lyrics by Betty Peterson Blasco, was published for the first time in 1948. The first known recording of this version was in December 1947 by the Marlin Sisters but the song first became a hit in May 1948 as recorded by Jon and Sondra Steele (Damon 11133) (#3) with rival versions by The Pied Pipers (Capitol 1628/15094)1 and Ella Fitzgerald (Decca 24446) entering the charts that June reaching respectively #4 and #8 with the Marlin Sisters version (Columbia 38217) finally charting with a #24 peak that July. A version by John Laurenz (Mercury catalog number 5144, with the flip side "Someone Cares"[1]), entered the Billboard magazine charts on August 7, 1948 where it stayed for 2 weeks, peaking at #26.
Connie Francis — whose favorite song at the age of eight had been the Jon and Sondra Steele version of "My Happiness" — remade the song in a 6 November 1958 session at the Radio Recorders studio in Hollywood, CA produced by Morton Craft and Jesse Kaye; David Rose conducted the orchestra. The song almost became Francis's first #1 hit in the first months of 1959 but was kept at #2 by another remake of a standard: the Platters' version of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes".
Other versions
"My Happiness" is reportedly one of two songs — the other being "That’s When Your Heartaches Begin" — Elvis Presley recorded in his first recording session at the Memphis Recording Service (Sun Studios). In January 2015, Presley's version of "My Happiness" sold to a then unknown online bidder at an auction for $300,000.[2]
References
- ↑ Mercury Records in the 5000 to 5497 series
- ↑ "Elvis Presley's first recording sells for $300,000". BBC News. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
