THE BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

To compliment my recently completed ‘1000 BEST SONGS LIST,’ here is another that just missed the cut.

1023-Vaughn Monroe-Mister Sandman.
1954-Has never been released as a single in the UK.
Best Bit-At 0.47.When choosing which version to post,It was a toss up between the wonderful melodic vocal sparing harmonies of The Chordettes, or the big band sounds of Vaughn Monroe, with his Orchestra,in the end I remembered that ‘It don’t mean a thing,if it ain’t got that swing.’
‘Mr Sandman'(sometimes Mister Sandman) was written by the American songwriter Pat Ballard,he was born Francis Drake Ballard in Troy,Pennsylvania,on June 19,1899,he died of a cardiac arrest in New York, on October 26.1960,his other best known song is ‘Oh Baby Mine,’ a 1954 hit for The Four Knights, which has sold in excess of one million copies.
The first recording of Mister Sandman was this one by Vaughn Monroe,it was released a the ‘B’ side of his 1954 single ‘I Don’t Wanna See You Cryin.”
Back in the 1950’s it was not unusual for the best songs of the day to have multiple recordings, and the most successful version of this song was by the American all female quartet The Chordettes, who spent seven weeks at Number 1, on Billboard during 1954.
Incidentally just in case you wanted to know,the ‘Sandman’ is a mythical character in Western, and Northern European folklore, who puts people to sleep,and encourages, and inspires beautiful dreams, by sprinkling magical sand onto their eyes.Two other very famous songs that are the subject of the Sandman are, Enter Sandman by Metallica (see also best songs 730,) and In Dreams from Roy Orbison.
‘Mister Sandman bring me a dream,make her complexion like peaches and cream.’
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