My Happiness (popular song)

My Happiness (popular song)
"My Happiness"
Written by Betty Peterson Blasco
Borney Bergantine
Published 1948
Language English
Recorded by Jon and Sondra Steele
The Pied Pipers
Ella Fitzgerald
The Marlin Sisters
Connie Francis
many other artists; see #Recorded versions

"My Happiness" is a pop music standard which was initially made famous in the mid-twentieth century.

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High profile versions

"My Happiness"
Single by Connie Francis
B-side "Never Before"
Released 1958
Format 7" single
Genre Easy listening
Length 2:28
Label MGM Records
Writer(s) Betty Peterson Blasco
Borney Bergantine
Producer Morton Craft and Jesse Kaye
Connie Francis singles chronology
"I'll Get By"
(1958)
"My Happiness"
(1958)
"If I Didn't Care"
(1959)

An unpublished version of the melody with different lyrics was written by Borney Bergantine in 1933.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 of 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. "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".

  • 1Capitol 1628 had the flip side "Dream"; 15094 had the flip side "Highway to Love".

Other versions

Other recordings include ones by Alan Dale and The Moonlighters (Signature catalog number 15206B, with the flip side "Tea Leaves"[1]), by The Harmonicats (Mercury catalog number 70360, with the flip side "Long, Long Ago"[2]), and by John Laurenz (Mercury catalog number 5144, with the flip side "Someone Cares"[3]), which entered the Billboard magazine charts on August 7, 1948 where it stayed for 2 weeks, peaking at #26. See also the next section for a more complete listing.

Recorded versions

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