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[David Lennick]

The ASCAP site lists artists who recorded it but no dates. Johnny Hartman might 
be the first...August 6, 1951. Sunny Gale is just shown in Lord as "late 1951". 
The WonkyPackia article about The Cardinals is full of inconsistencies 
(Abramson discovering the group in 1951, then having them come to NY in 1950, 
releasing the song in February 1951 etc).

Sorry Johnny, you've been displaced by Al Costello. Who!?
http://www.secondhandsongs.com/work/89387/all

Yep. Al Costello, on Crescendo.
http://www.originals.be/en/originals.php?id=6838

dl

On 7/21/2014 8:33 PM, Ray Kilcoyne wrote:
>
> Happy 92nd Birthday to Kay Starr.
> Over on Facebook a question has arisen.
> It is agreed that Kay was not the first to record WHEEL OF FORTUNE.
> But who was?
> Sunny Gale?
> Johnny Hartman?
> The Cardinals?
> Does anyone have dates for these?
>
> Kay Starr – recorded 17 January 1952 – charted 16 February 1952
>
> By what I was able to find, it looks like the Cardinals or Johnny Hartman
>
> The Cardinals – Atlantic 958 – charted 7 March 1952 – recorded 6 October 1951 according to one source
> Sunny Gale – Derby 787 – charted 9 February 1952
> Johnny Hartman – RCA 47-4349 – never charted - recorded maybe October 1951 according to one source
>
> RayK
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