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Content: Basically, I sang the words and he guided me with what he wanted for the music. You might say I sang the song under his guidance," Stirrat said. When he and North were working on the song, Stirrat hoped that Bing Crosby would sing it since he was a neighbor. "I’d spoken to Bing Crosby’s wife so I thought it was a good connection. I styled it for him, you know, his songs had a dip at the end," the lyricist said. When that plan did not work out, Stirrat told North that he wanted Duke Ellington’s orchestra to record it. It took 19 years, but they finally got Al Hibbler, who had been Ellington’s vocalist, to record the song, Stirrat said. Disc jockey Dave "The Rave" Kapulsky, whose national debut of his Relics and Rarities show was last weekend on XM Satellite Radio, Channel 6, the 1960s channel, said the song first appeared in the movie "Unchained" in 1955. "It was a Top 30 charted tune by four artists when it was first released in 1955. Al Hibbler is believed to have been the first to sing the song.