The song was written by Harold Adamson and Victor Young; Young died in 1956, several weeks after the film's release, and he received the Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture posthumously.
[2] Young's orchestral version was a #13 hit on the Billboard charts in 1957.
[3] The recording by Bing Crosby was the B-side of the Victor Young version in 1957, on Festival SP45-1274 in Australia, and was a joint charting success.
The song is used multiple times in various forms throughout the 2015 Japanese animated film The Anthem of the Heart.
The song is featured prominently in season 2, episode 6 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.