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Funny Face" also crossed over to the pop chart, peaking at number five, making it her only top 10 hit on the Hot 100 chart. [3] Fargo revealed to Tom Roland in The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits that she originally offered comedian George Lindsey the chance to record the song first, but he turned it down. "It was a natural song for ...
Donna Fargo (born Yvonne Vaughn; November 10, 1945 [3] [4]) is an American country singer-songwriter known for a series of Top 10 country hits in the 1970s. These include " The Happiest Girl In The Whole U.S.A. " and " Funny Face ", both of which were released in 1972 and became crossover pop hits that year.
Fargo told Tom Roland in The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits that she wrote the song with a different title originally. "It really started out to be 'Happiest Girl in the World,' but the rhyme scheme got to be too unnatural, so I changed it to 'U.S.A.' It kind of wrote itself after that." [1]
The album's title track became Fargo's first major hit and a crossover Country pop hit, reaching #1 on the Billboard country chart and the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100. The second single entitled "Funny Face" had similar success the same year. The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. is Donna Fargo's highest-selling album in the United States.
Funny Face is a 1927 musical composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and book by Fred Thompson and Paul Gerard Smith. When it opened on Broadway on November 22, 1927, as the first show performed in the newly built Alvin Theatre, it starred Fred Astaire and his sister Adele Astaire. It was in this show that Astaire first danced ...
Funny Face (Donna Fargo song) H. The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. (song) S. Superman (Donna Fargo song) T. That Was Yesterday (Donna Fargo song) Y. You Were ...
The final episode of 'Fargo' Season 5 brought the stories of Dot Lyon, Roy Tillman, Witt Farr, and Ole Munch (Oola Moonk) to a satisfying conclusion. The Sometimes Bloody, Sometimes Funny ...
Donna Fargo spent three weeks at number one in June with her first chart entry, "The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.", [7] and went on to gain her second number one in the fall with "Funny Face". Jerry Wallace achieved his only country chart-topper with " If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry ", which spent two non-consecutive weeks at number one ...