Happy Days and Lonely Nights

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"Happy Days and Lonely Nights"
Single by Connie Francis
A-side "Fallin'"
Released1958
Recorded1958
Genre Rock and roll
Length2:11
Label MGM Records K 12713
Songwriter(s) Billy Rose/Fred Fisher
Producer(s) Morty Kraft
Connie Francis USsingles chronology
"Stupid Cupid" / "Carolina Moon"
(1958)
"Fallin'" / "Happy Days and Lonely Nights"
(1958)
"My Happiness" / "Never Before"
(1958)

"Happy Days and Lonely Nights" is a torch song written by Billy Rose and Fred Fisher, first recorded by The Harmony Brothers on May 18, 1928. [1] The song was successfully revived in the 1950s in the US by the Fontane Sisters and in the UK most successfully by Ruby Murray.

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References

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