YOU BELONG TO ME
Jo's biggest-selling hit (1952),
over 2 million copies. Stayed
#1 for 12 weeks!
This is the 1963 Capitol Records
stereo version.
--ABOUT THE SONG--
(From Wikipedia)
You Belong To Me is credited to three writers: Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart, and Chilton Price. Actually Price wrote most of the song, and gave rights to the other two in exchange for publicity. Pee Wee King and Redd Stewart did rearrange the song because it was written as a war song during World War II and changed the title to "You Belong To Me" along with arranging the music. Price gave them equal credit because of the success of an earlier hit which she had written, "Slow Poke (posted here on bmcneese45a)," which had done so well with a similar arrangement that she felt she could do better by ceding partial credit to King and Stewart, rather than trying to publicize the song herself.
--LYRICS--
See the pyramids along the Nile
Watch the sun rise on a tropic isle
But just remember, darling, all the while
You belong to me.
See the marketplace in old Algiers
Send me photographs and souvenirs
Just remember when a dream appears
You belong to me.
I'll be so alone without you
Maybe you'll be lonesome too---and blue
Fly the ocean in a silver plane
See the jungle when its wet with rain
Just remember till you're home again
You belong to me
I'll be so alone without you
Maybe you'll be lonesome too---and blue
Fly the ocean in a silver plane
See the jungle when its wet with rain
Bur remember darling till you're home again
That you belong to me
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