BOBBY HELMS - YOU ARE MY SPECIAL ANGEL

YOU ARE MY SPECIAL ANGEL

BOBBY HELMS

SONGWRITER: JIMMY DUNCAN

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: SINGS TO MY SPECIAL ANGEL

LABEL: VOCALION RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK

YEAR: 1957

"My Special Angel" is a popular song by Jimmy Duncan, published in 1957.

The song became a crossover hit in 1957 for Bobby Helms. "My Special Angel," which Bobby Helms recorded in July 1957, peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and spent four weeks at number one on the US Country music chart. The single made the R&B chart as well peaking at number eight. It became a gold record. Backing vocals were sung by the Anita Kerr Singers.

Bill Haley and His Comets covered it on their 1960 covers album Bill Haley and His Comets.

Bobby Vinton and Frankie Avalon both released covers of this song in 1963. The Crests recorded a cover version for their 1960 album: The Crests Sing All Biggies.

It was revived in 1968 by The Vogues, a vocal group founded in Pennsylvania who had already scored top ten hits in the US with the songs "You're The One", "Five O'Clock World", and "Turn Around, Look at Me". The group's cover of "My Special Angel" reached number seven on the Hot 100 chart and fared even better on the Easy Listening chart, where it spent two weeks at number one in October 1968.

In the United Kingdom, a version recorded by Malcolm Vaughan spent 14 weeks on the charts, peaking at number three in 1957.

(Angel, angel, whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa)

(Angel, angel, whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa)

You are my special angel

Sent from up above

The Lord smiled down on me

And sent an angel to love (to love)

You are my special angel

Right from paradise

I know you're an angel

Heaven is in your eyes

The smile from your lips brings the summer sunshine

Tears from your eyes bring the rain

I feel your touch, your warm embrace

And I'm in heaven again

You are my special angel

Through eternity

I'll have my special angel

Here to watch over me

(A smile from your lips brings the summer sunshine)

(The tears from your eyes bring the rain)

I feel your touch, your warm embrace

And I'm in heaven again

You are my special angel

Through eternity

I'll have my special angel

Here to watch over me (watch over me)

Here to watch over me
(Angel, angel, whoa-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh oh, oh).