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"A Little Bird Told Me" is a popular

Popular music

Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music, which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local...

song. It was written by Harvey O. Brooks and was published in 1947

1947 in music

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The recording by Evelyn Knight
Evelyn Knight
Evelyn Knight was a popular American singer of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1948, she recorded "A Little Bird Told Me" with The Stardusters, which was #1 for seven weeks and stayed on the charts for five months...

was released by Decca Records
Decca Records
Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....

as catalog number
Catalog numbering systems for single records
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24514. It first reached the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
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Best Seller chart on November 12, 1948, and lasted 21 weeks on the chart, peaking at number one. This was the bigger side of a two-sided hit; the flip side, "Brush Those Tears from Your Eyes," also charted, reaching number 24.

The recording by Paula Watson was released by Supreme Records
Supreme Records
Supreme Records was a cheaply produced record label subsidiary of Grey Gull Records of Boston, Massachusetts marketed in the United States of America in the late 1920s...

as catalog number 1507.