"The Garden of Eden" is a song written and composed by Dennise Haas Norwood, and first recorded by Joe Valino,[1] which reached Number 12 on the Billboard chart in December 1956.
[2] The song was also recorded by other artists, including Frankie Vaughan whose version gave him his first No.
"I knew it would be a hit, even as I was recording it," he told Wayne Jancik in The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders.
The most popular of these was recorded by the singer Frankie Vaughan with Wally Stott And His Orchestra And Chorus.
[9] The song first entered the UK Singles Chart on 11 January 1957, and reached No.