"I Cried" 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

Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

 written by Michael Elias and Billy Duke.

The best-selling version was done by Patti Page

Patti Page

Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an American singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and has sold over 100 million records...

, reaching #13 on the Billboard charts in 1954

1954 in music

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. It was released by Mercury Records

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 as catalog number

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 70416. The song was a two-sided hit, with the flip side "What a Dream

What a Dream

"What a Dream" is a popular song. It was written by Chuck Willis and was published in 1954.The original recording was done by Ruth Brown, but a cover by Patti Page was a bigger hit....

" doing even better on the chart. It entered the chart on September 1, 1954 and stayed on for 3 weeks, peaking at #26 on the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart. Another version, by Tommy Leonetti

Tommy Leonetti

Tommy Leonetti was an American pop singer-songwriter and actor of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. In Australia his most famous song was "My City of Sydney" and was used by the Australian TV channel ATN7 in Sydney for station identification into the 1980s...

, reached #30 the same year. The song reached #18 on the Cash Box

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best-selling record charts in that year.