My Happiness (1948 song)


"My Happiness" is a pop music standard which was initially made famous in the mid-twentieth century. An unpublished version of the melody with different lyrics was written by Borney Bergantine in 1933.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 with rival versions by the Pied Pipers 1 and Ella Fitzgerald entering the charts that June reaching respectively numbers four and eight with the Marlin Sisters version finally charting with a number 24 peak that July. A version by John Laurenz, entered the Billboard magazine charts on August 7, 1948 where it stayed for two weeks, peaking at number 26.

Connie Francis rendition

whose favorite song at the age of eight had been the Jon and Sondra Steele version of "My Happiness"remade the song in a November 6, 1958 session at the Radio Recorders studio in Hollywood, California, produced by Morton Craft and Jesse Kaye; David Rose conducted the orchestra. The song almost became Francis's first number one hit in the first months of 1959, but was kept at number two by another remake of a standard: the Platters' version of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes".

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