"My Heart Cries for You" is a popular

Popular music

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 song

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, adapted by Carl Sigman

Carl Sigman

Carl Sigman was an American songwriter.-Biography:Born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, Sigman graduated from law school and passed his Bar exams to practice in the state of New York...

 and Percy Faith

Percy Faith

Percy Faith was a Canadian-born American bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of pop and Christmas standards. He is often credited with creating the "easy listening" or "mood music" format which became staples of American popular music in the 1950s and...

 from an 18th century French

France

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 melody.

The music is from an old French song attributed to Marie Antoinette " La jardinière du Roi". The chorus "My heart cries for you, Sighs for you, dies for you..." is original and does not appear in the French song.

The sentimental ballad was recorded toward the end of 1950 by Guy Mitchell

Guy Mitchell

Guy Mitchell, born Albert George Cernik, was an American pop singer, successful in his homeland, the U.K. and Australia...

  with Mitch Miller

Mitch Miller

Mitchell William "Mitch" Miller was an American musician, singer, conductor, record producer, A&R man and record company executive...

 and his orchestra, in a recording issued by Columbia Records

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 as catalog number 39067, which sold over a million copies and reached #2 on the Billboard charts in 1951.

The composition was also arranged and recorded by John Serry, Sr.

John Serry, Sr.

John Serry, Sr. was an accomplished concert accordionist virtuoso, arranger, composer, organist and educator who performed on the CBS Radio and CBS Television networks...

 and his ensemble for Dot Records

Dot Records

Dot Records was an American record label and company that was active between 1950 and 1977. It was founded by Randy Wood. In Gallatin, Tennessee, Wood had earlier started a mail order record shop, known for its radio ads on WLAC in Nashville and its R&B air personality Bill "Hoss" Allen...

 (Catalog #DLP-3024) as a 33 RPM vinyl recording entitled Squeeze Play in 1956.http://bsnpubs.com/dot/dotb.html

It had numerous cover version

Cover version

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s; among the hit recordings made were those by Dinah Shore

Dinah Shore

Dinah Shore was an American singer, actress, and television personality...

, Vic Damone

Vic Damone

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 (a #4 hit on the Billboard charts), and Evelyn Knight

Evelyn Knight

Evelyn Knight was a popular American singer of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1948, she recorded "A Little Bird Told Me" with The Stardusters, which was #1 for seven weeks and stayed on the charts for five months...

 at approximately the same time, January 1951.http://www.cashboxmagazine.com/archives/50s_files/19510127.html

Dinah Shore with Chorus & Orchestra Cond.: Henri René recorded a version in New York City

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 on November 4, 1950. It was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-3978 (in USA) and by EMI

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 on the His Master's Voice label as catalog number B 10026.

A revival by Ray Charles

Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...

 reached the U.S. top forty is 1964. Connie Francis

Connie Francis

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 "bubbled under" the Billboard pop charts in 1967.

The song has also been recorded by Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley

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, Ben E. King

Ben E. King

Benjamin Earl King , better known as Ben E. King, is an American soul singer. He is perhaps best known as the singer and co-composer of "Stand by Me", a U.S...

, Dinah Washington

Dinah Washington

Dinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones , was an American blues, R&B and jazz singer. She has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s", and called "The Queen of the Blues"...

, Charlie Rich

Charlie Rich

Charles Rich was an American country music singer and musician. A Grammy Award winner, his eclectic-style of music was often hard to classify in a single genre, playing in the rockabilly, jazz, blues, country, and gospel genres.In the latter part of his life, Rich acquired the nickname The Silver...

, Eddy Arnold

Eddy Arnold

Richard Edward Arnold , known professionally as Eddy Arnold, was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a so-called Nashville sound innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more...

, Dean Martin

Dean Martin

Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"...

, Red Foley

Red Foley

Clyde Julian Foley , better known as Red Foley, was an American singer, musician, and radio and TV personality who made a major contribution to the growth of country music after World War II....

, Jo Stafford

Jo Stafford

Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards and occasional actress whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s...

, Jimmy Wakely

Jimmy Wakely

James Clarence Wakeley , better known as Jimmy Wakely, was an American country-Western singer and actor, one of the last crooning cowpokes following World War II...

, Doyle Holly

Doyle Holly

Doyle Floyd Hendricks, known by the stage name Doyle Holly was an American musician best known as the bass guitar player of the country music band Buck Owens and the Buckaroos and for his solo hit songs "Queen Of The Silver Dollar" and "Lila". Holly's contributions on bass guitar and rhythm guitar...

 and The McGuire Sisters

The McGuire Sisters

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.

On his 2005 "comeback" album, The Moon Was Blue, country singer Bobby Bare

Bobby Bare

Robert Joseph Bare is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is the father of Bobby Bare, Jr., also a musician.-Early career:...

 also recorded a version of the song.

On her album If Your Memory Serves You Well

If Your Memory Serves You Well

If Your Memory Serves You Well is the second major label album by Serena Ryder, released in 2006 on EMI Music Canada. The album is primarily a collection of covers of classic songs by Canadian songwriters, although it also includes three original songs by Ryder...

, Serena Ryder

Serena Ryder

Serena Ryder is a Juno Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter raised in Millbrook, Ontario.Ranging musically between folk, roots, country, and adult contemporary music, Ryder possesses a five-octave range...

 covers this, as well as many other classics.