My Happiness

Thomascows version" My Happiness" written by Borney Bergantine in 1933. The most famous early 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 of 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 and Ella Fitzgerald. The Marlin Sisters version "My Happiness" was one of two songs - the other being "That's When Your Heartaches Begin" that Elvis Presley recorded at his first recording session at the Memphis Recording Service (Sun Studios) in the summer of 1953. 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' 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".

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Morton Craft
• Jon and Sondra Steele
• Elvis Presley
• Connie Francis
• Jesse Kaye
• the Marlin Sisters
• the Platters
• Borney Bergantine
• 1933
• Betty Peterson Blasco

[freescorepaul]

Ah - my parent's "special song". Good to hear it again, and in such fine fettle. Thanks for the memory & the happiness!

Paul

[thomascow1]

@MAFjournal When I see a comment like this I know the vid went thro ok.Thanks comrade