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"The Garden of Eden (song)"
Song

"The Garden of Eden" is a song written and composed by Dennise Haas Norwood, and first recorded by Joe Valino, [1] which reached Number 12 on the Billboard chart in October 1956. [2] Valino recorded the song at his second session for Vik Records, a subsidiary of RCA. "I knew it would be a hit, even as I was recording it," he told Wayne Jancik in The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders. [3]

In the UK the most popular version was recorded by the singer Frankie Vaughan, and gave him his first No. 1 hit in the United Kingdom in early 1957. The song first entered the UK Singles Chart on 11 January 1957, spent four weeks at the top, [4] and 13 weeks in the charts all together. [1] Gary Miller also released his version in the UK around the same time, and it reached No. 14 on the chart. [5]

Other versions of the song have also been recorded by Dick James and Paul Raven.

References

  1. ^ a b Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 29. ISBN  0-85112-250-7.
  2. ^ Fisher, Bob; Theo Morgan (2011). 1957 British Hit Parade — Part 1: January–June (booklet). various artists. UK: Acrobat Music. ACQCD7024.
  3. ^ Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, expanded first edition (Billboard Books, 1998) ISBN  0-8230-7622-9, p. 25.
  4. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 67–8. ISBN  1-904994-10-5.
  5. ^ "Gary Miller". The Official Charts Company.