It was first recorded by Margaret Whiting in 1947 and first charted for The Orioles, peaking at No.
9 on Billboard's Best-Selling Retail Rhythm & Blues chart in December 1949.
107 on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles in December 1960) and Nancy Wilson (No.
In A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life, his daughter Susan Loesser explains that "the singer, madly in love, is making a (possibly rash) commitment far into the future.
It always annoyed my father when the song was sung during the holidays".