1951 HITS ARCHIVE: Because Of You Tony Bennett (a, 1 record)
Because Of You (HammersteinWilkinson) by Tony Bennett, orchestra conducted by Percy Faith At about the same time that moviegoers were hearing this fairly obscure preWW2 tune in the soundtrack of the 1951 film I Was An American Spy, young Tony Bennett (still looking for his first major hit) was in the Columbia Records studio with arrangerconductor Percy Faith and producer Mitch Miller creating this piece of musical history. Because Of You spent ten weeks atop the Billboard record charts and was (by some accounts) the most popular single of 1951. Tony immediately followed up with another, 1 millionseller Cold, Cold Heart and the twosided beauty Blue Velvet, Solitaire, all of which are included in this are the runnerup versions of Because Of You by Les Baxter and by Gloria DeHaven with Guy Lombardo. THE 1951 HITS ARCHIVE here in one place, a goodquality library of originalreleaseversion bestsellers and songs that made an impact that were either released or
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