Here are the three versions in three separate clips. It's one of those songs I could listen to over and over:
Here's Johnnie Ray (Columbia)...
Here's Rosemary Clooney (Columbia)...
And here's Sammy Davis Jr., (apparently before his November 1954 car accident in which he lost his left eye). He also seems to have recast the song's theme from a self-confessional to a pre-date pep talk. Watch for the closet door to accidentally bounce off his shoe and how he coolly recovers and moves on...
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