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Popular music

Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music, which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local...

 song

Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

, with music written by Harold Grant

Harold Grant

Harold Grant was the fifth head college football coach of the College of Emporia Fighting Presbies in Emporia, Kansas. His teams accumulated an impressive record of 34 wins, 4 losses, and 1 tie. His teams won the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference championship in 1925 and shared the title in...

 and lyrics by Dorcas Cochran

Dorcas Cochran

Dorcas Cochran was an American lyricist and screenwriter. She is also referenced by her married name, Dorcas Cochran Jewell.-Biography:...

, published in 1954

1954 in music

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. (Most sources show music and lyrics by both, but Cochran was a lyricist and Grant a composer.)

The melody was adapted from the operatic aria, "Caro nome," from the opera Rigoletto

Rigoletto

Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. It was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on March 11, 1851...

by Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...

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A hit version was recorded by Tony Martin

Tony Martin (entertainer)

Tony Martin is an American actor and singer.-Career:Tony Martin was born on Christmas Day, 1913 as Alvin Morris in San Francisco, California to Jewish immigrant parents. He received a saxophone as a gift from his grandmother at the age of ten. In his grammar school glee club, he became an...

 on December 26, 1953. This recording was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number

Catalog numbering systems for single records

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 20-5665. It first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on March 17, 1954 and lasted 16 weeks on the chart, peaking at #7.

The song was also recorded by The Four Belles with Larry Clinton

Larry Clinton

Larry Clinton was a trumpeter who became a prominent American bandleader.-Biography:Clinton was born in Brooklyn, New York. He became a versatile musician, capable of playing trumpet, trombone, and clarinet...

's orchestra and by Jimmy Young

Jimmy Young (disc jockey)

Sir Jimmy Young CBE was a British singer, disc jockey and radio interviewer.-Early life:...

 at about the same time, and by Robert Goulet

Robert Goulet

Robert Gerard Goulet was a Canadian American entertainer as a singer and actor. He played the role of Lancelot in the Broadway musical Camelot of 1960.-Early life:...

 in 1961

1961 in music

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