"In the Middle of an Island" is a popular song written by Nick Acquaviva and Ted Varnick and published in 1957.
[2] With this song, Bennett had his all-time worst disagreement with Mitch Miller,[3] Columbia's pop music executive at the time, who absolutely wanted Bennett to record a version of the song; similarly, Bennett "[absolutely wanted] not to go anywhere" near it.
Bennett had no response to Miller's question, "Am I going to have you put out a bad record?"
Having not entirely gotten over his fear of losing his contract with Columbia, Bennett subsequently sang a half-hearted version of the song (which was never recorded).
After the performance, Miller got disgusted and told Bennett to "just give [him] one take all the way through and we can all go home."