A recording credited to Mike Sarne with accompaniment directed by Charles Blackwell featuring Wendy Richard reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in 1962.

[2][4] The track stayed at number one for a fortnight during the weeks commencing 28 June and 5 July 1962.

[5][3] The song was placed twelfth on the chart of overall single sales for the calendar year 1962 in the UK.

[6] According to an article in The Daily Telegraph dated 9 May 1998, and cited by Songfacts,[7] the song was originally intended by Blackwell to be a solo.

In 1962, Alan Klein later of the New Vaudeville Band, made a video of this song with Julie Samuel.