"Seven Lonely Days"
B-side "If You Took My Heart Away" Released January 1953
Label
Mercury
Songwriter(s) Earl Shuman, Alden Shuman, Marshall Brown
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"Seven Lonely Days " is a song written by Earl Shuman, Alden Shuman, and
Marshall Brown . It was originally recorded by American singer
Georgia Gibbs with orchestra conducted by
Glenn Osser and the Yale Bros. choir in December 1952 and released in January 1953,
[1] peaking at number 5 in the
US chart .
[2]
The song was later performed by The Pinetoppers And The Marlin Sisters,
[3]
Bonnie Lou ,
The Crows with Viola Watkins,
[4]
Gisele MacKenzie ,
Ivo Robić ,
[5]
Kitty Wells ,
The Teddy Bears ,
Patsy Cline ,
The Migil 5 ,
[6]
Wanda Jackson ,
Dave Dudley ,
Dan Folger ,
[7]
Jean Shepard ,
Owen Gray ,
[8]
Lynn Anderson ,
Debbie ,
[9]
[10]
Fred Stuger ,
[11]
[12]
Sheila & B.Devotion , Mario Cavallero et son orchestre (with Karine Miet),
[13]
[14] Kristi Rose and the Midnight Walkers,
k d lang ,
[15]
[16]
Kelly Willis ,
[17]
Petty Booka , Kirsten Siggaard, Smoking Popes, The Ranch Girls & Their Ragtime Wranglers,
[18]
[19] Wenche Hartmann, Cowslingers, and Marti Brom.
[1] The melody is the basis for the popular 1954 Mandarin
Shidaiqu song "Give Me a Kiss" (給我一個吻) by
Zhang Lu ,
[20] and a 1965 Cantonese pop song "Typhoon Signal No. 10" (十號風波) by
Tang Kee-chan and Lee Wai (李慧).
[21]
Original chart performance
Chart (1953)
Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100
5
Bonnie Lou version
Country music and
rock and roll singer
Bonnie Lou released the song as a single in March 1953. It peaked at number 7 on the
Billboard Magazine
Most Played C&W in Juke Boxes chart
[22] and was later included on her 1958 album, Bonnie Lou Sings .
Chart performance
Chart (1953)
Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot C&W in Juke Boxes
7
Gisele MacKenzie version
Canadian singer
Gisele MacKenzie performed her own version of Seven Lonely Days in July 1953. It reached the sixth place in the
UK Singles Chart .
[2]
Chart performance
Jean Shepard version
In 1969,
Jean Shepard released a version from her album Seven Lonely Days . It was her first single to become a major hit since 1967's "
Your Forevers Don't Last Very Long ". Shepard's versions reached number 18 on the
Billboard Magazine
Hot Country Singles chart and number 34 on the
RPM Country Singles chart.
[22]
Chart performance
Chart (1969)
Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles
18
Canadian RPM Country Singles
34
References
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