Hushabye

For the Hayley Westenra album, see Hushabye (album).

"Hushabye"

Single by The Mystics

B-side

"Adam and Eve"

Released

April, 1959

Genre

Doo-wop

Length

2:30

Label

Laurie

Writer(s)

Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman

The Mystics singles chronology

"Hushabye"

"Don't Take The Stars"/"So Tenderly"

"Hushabye" is a song that was written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman in 1959 for the doo-wop vocal group the Mystics.^[1] It is based on the lullaby "All the Pretty Horses". It spent sixteen weeks on Billboard Hot 100 (nine of those in the top 40), reaching #20 at its peak.^[2] Personnel on the original recording included Al Caiola and Bucky Pizzarelli on guitars and Panama Francis on drums. Disc jockey Alan Freed featured "Hushabye" as the closing tune on his televised Saturday night "Big Beat Show".^[3]

The Beach Boys version

The song was covered by the Beach Boys on their 1964 album All Summer Long , featuring Brian Wilson and Mike Love on lead vocals. In 1993, two new versions of the song appeared on the Beach Boys' Good Vibrations box set, one live version and the other a split track with vocals in one channel and instruments in the other.

Other versions

1966 – The Kingsmen, Up And Away
1969 – Jay and the Americans, Sands of Time.

Notes

↑ "Doc Pomus Biography". www.felderpomus.com. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
↑ "The Mystics Awards". Retrieved 2013-01-13.
↑ "The Mystics". Retrieved 2013-01-13.

External links

All Summer Long

Songs

Side one	"I Get Around" "All Summer Long" "Hushabye" "Little Honda" "We'll Run Away" "Carl's Big Chance"

Side two	"Wendy" "Do You Remember?" "Girls on the Beach" "Drive-In" "Our Favorite Recording Sessions" "Don't Back Down"

Jay and the Americans

Sandy Deanne Howie Kane Jay Reincke Marty Sanders Jay Traynor Kenny Vance Jay Black

Studio albums	She Cried Come a Little Bit Closer Blockbusters Sunday and Me Livin' Above Your Head Try Some of This! Sands of Time Wax Museum Capture the Moment

Singles	"She Cried" "Come a Little Bit Closer" "Let's Lock the Door (And Throw Away the Key)" "Cara Mia" "Some Enchanted Evening" "Sunday and Me" "Crying" "No Other Love" "This Magic Moment" "Walkin' in the Rain" "There Goes My Baby"

Cover songs	"Here, There and Everywhere" "Hushabye" "It's a Big, Wide, Wonderful World" "Maria" "Monday, Monday" "Nature Boy" "Since I Don't Have You" "Solitary Man" "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)" "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" "Tonight"

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