Words and Music by Slim Willet, 1952

Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. ~ ASCAP

 

With Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra

and The Ramblers

Produced by Dave Kapp and Hy Grill

 

Recorded at Manhattan Center, New York City

Recording Time 2:39

 

Recorded November 04, 1952   ~  Matrix No. E2VB-7690 Take 1

Single release: RCA-78/45RPM-20/47-5064

Single Flip Side: "Lies"

US Chart Position No. 1

Belgian Chart Position No. 13 (1953)

 

 

 

Notes: ~ When Winston L. Moore went on the air while a college student in Texas, he thought

he needed a different name to go with the hillbilly song he had written for the programme.

And that's how Slim Willet was born. Don't Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes, which became his

biggest hit, started slowly. Willet recalled, years later, that when he sent the song to a top man

of a big record company, 'He suggested that I get in some other business.' The same executive's

company later made more than half a dozen versions of the song by different artists! Perry, too,

was lukewarm to this Texas-styled number. 'I complained,' Perry said. 'I told them the metre's

wrong. I don't understand it. They said to do just one take, so I did. Almost two million records

later, I guess they were right.'

( notes from "The Incomparable Como" Readers Digest UK compilation 1975 )

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With Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra

and The Ramblers

Produced by Dave Kapp and Hy Grill

Recorded at Manhattan Center, New York City

Recorded November 4, 1952

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