It was written by Arthur Korb, Charles Purvis, and Milton Yakus and published in 1956. The recording by Patti Page was released by Mercury Records as catalog number 70766. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on January 14, 1956. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at #16; on the Best Seller chart, at #17; on the Juke Box chart, at #12; on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached #11.

The song was also recorded and charted as a duet by Kitty Kallen and Georgie Shaw.