Jan Peerce - "The Bluebird of Happiness" (original commercial version, 1945) 

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Jan Peerce sings the song "The Bluebird of Happiness" which was an enormous hit in its day. It was written for him around 1934 by composer Sandor Harmati and lyricist Edward Heyman when Peerce was one of the leading singers at NBC's Radio City Music Hall. Peerce's original recording of this song was cut around 1936, although under the name Paul Robinson (he didn't want to cheapen his name by recording under it on budget labels). That recording was very popular on the radio for many years and in some cases when broadcast on it over 20 years later was still being credited to Paul Robinson (I'll post this version in the near future if anyone is interested). This one here is Peerce's original RCA Victor commercial recording of the song made on June 7, 1945 with Sylvan Levin conducting. As of the late 1970s, this record was second in sales only to Caruso's recording of "Over There" among the all time best selling recordings of opera and concert singers.
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