The song made the popular music charts the following year.

The first recording to be released was by Al Hibbler, whose version reached No.

[1] Despite its popularity with listeners to Radio Luxenbourg, the song never reached the British charts - mainly due to the ban imposed by the BBC on popular songs with what they termed pseudo-religious lyrics and both Hibbler's and the version by the McGuire Sisters lost out due to that decision.

The McGuire Sisters also released a version of the song in 1955, which reached No.

33 on Billboard's ranking of "1955's Top Tunes", based on the Honor Roll of Hits[3] and No.