"My Heart Cries for You" is a popular song, adapted by Carl Sigman and Percy Faith from an 18th-century French melody.
[5] The lyrics of this version, "My heart cries for you, sighs for you, dies for you..." are original and unrelated to the French song.
[8] The song was released with "The Roving Kind" as its B-side in November 1950 by Columbia Records (catalog number 39067).
It became Mitchell's first hit song,[9] reaching number 2 for seven weeks on the Billboard chart in 1951 with over a million copies sold.
A version was first recorded by Dinah Shore with Henri René's Orchestra & Chorus in New York City, and released around the same time as Guy Mitchell.