Happiness Street (Corner Sunshine Square)
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"Happiness Street" is a popular
song
written by Edward White
and Mack Wolfson and published in 1955
.
The recording by Georgia Gibbs
was released by Mercury Records
as catalog number
70920. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts
on August 25, 1956 and lasted 8 weeks on the chart. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at #20; on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached #25.
The recording by Tony Bennett
was released by Columbia Records
as catalog number 40726. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts
on October 6, 1956 and lasted 2 weeks on the chart. On the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached #38 The flip side was a bigger hit, "From the Candy Store on the Corner to the Chapel on the Hill," making this record a two-sided hit.
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Song
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written by Edward White
Edward White
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and Mack Wolfson and published in 1955
1955 in music
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The recording by Georgia Gibbs
Georgia Gibbs
Georgia Gibbs was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs first achieved acclaim in the mid-1950s interpreting songs originating with the black rhythm and blues community and later as a featured vocalist on a long list of...
was released by Mercury Records
Mercury Records
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as catalog number
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70920. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts
Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine...
on August 25, 1956 and lasted 8 weeks on the chart. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at #20; on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached #25.
The recording by Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz....
was released by Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
as catalog number 40726. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts
Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine...
on October 6, 1956 and lasted 2 weeks on the chart. On the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached #38 The flip side was a bigger hit, "From the Candy Store on the Corner to the Chapel on the Hill," making this record a two-sided hit.