"Broken Wings" is a popular

Popular music

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 song

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, written

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 by John Jerome and Bernard Gunn.

Probably the best known version of the song was produced

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 by Dick Rowe

Dick Rowe

Richard Paul Rowe was an A&R man at Decca Records from the 1950s to the 1960s.He was one of the most important producers and record executives in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and early 1960s and is the man who signed The Rolling Stones, Them , The Moody Blues, The Animals, The Zombies, John...

 and recorded in the UK by The Stargazers in 1953. It was the first record

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 by any British act to reach number one in the UK Singles Chart

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and was the first of two number-one UK hits for the group

Musical ensemble

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, the other being "I See the Moon

I See the Moon

"I See the Moon" is a popular song written by Meredith Willson.The Mariners, in the United States, and The Stargazers, in the United Kingdom, had the best-known versions. The Stargazers' recording reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in 1954...

" a year later.

Two other versions

Cover version

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 also entered the UK chart in February 1953, the original recording by Art and Dotty Todd

Art and Dotty Todd

Art and Dotty Todd were an American husband and wife singing duo who reached the Top Ten in the UK and the US with the respective hits "Broken Wings" and "Chanson D'Amour" ....

 (peaking at number 6), and the other by Dickie Valentine

Dickie Valentine

Dickie Valentine was an English pop singer in the 1950s.-Early life:Valentine was born Richard Maxwell , though Valentine was known as Richard Bryce as his mother later married Bryce and gave her young son the same name. He was born in Marylebone, London...

(reaching number 12).