"Tammy" 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

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 with music by Jay Livingston

Jay Livingston

Jay Livingston was an American composer and singer best known as half of a songwriting duo with Ray Evans that specialized in songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics....

 and lyrics by Ray Evans

Ray Evans

Raymond Bernard Evans was an American songwriter. He was a partner in a composing and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films...

. It was published in 1957

1957 in music

-Events:*January 5 – Renato Carosone and his band start their American tour in Cuba.*January 6 – Elvis Presley makes his final appearance on the The Ed Sullivan Show.*January 16 – The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool, UK....

 and debuted in the film

Film

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 Tammy and the Bachelor

Tammy and the Bachelor

Tammy and the Bachelor is a 1957 romantic comedy film and is the first of the four Tammy films. It stars Debbie Reynolds as Tambrey "Tammy" Tyree, Walter Brennan as Grandpa Dinwitty and Leslie Nielsen as Peter Brent...

. It was nominated for the 1957 Academy Award for Best Original Song.

The most popular version, by Debbie Reynolds

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Debbie Reynolds is an American actress, singer, and dancer.She was initially signed at age 16 by Warner Bros., but her career got off to a slow start. When her contract was not renewed, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave her a small, but significant part in the film Three Little Words , then signed her to...

, was released by Coral Records

Coral Records

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 as catalog number

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 61851. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts

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 on July 22, 1957 and peaked at #1 on all the charts: the Disk Jockey chart, the Best Seller chart, and the composite chart of the top 100 songs. It featured in the soundtracks of The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski is a 1998 comedy film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Jeff Bridges stars as Jeff Lebowski, an unemployed Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler, who is referred to as "The Dude". After a case of mistaken identity, The Dude is introduced to a millionaire also named...

, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film)

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and was sampled

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 in the song "A Different Feeling" by Australian electronic band

Electronic music

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 The Avalanches

The Avalanches

The Avalanches are an Australian electronic music group formed in 1997 with mainstays Robbie Chater on keyboards, Tony Diblasi on keyboards, bass and backing vocals, and Darren Seltmann on vocals and keyboards. They are known for their live DJ sets and their debut album Since I Left You , which was...

 on their 2000 album "Since I Left You

Since I Left You

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".

Polly Bergen

Polly Bergen

Polly Bergen is an American actress, singer, and entrepreneur.-Career:Bergen appeared in many film roles, most notably in the original Cape Fear opposite Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum...

 sang "Tammy" on the premiere episode of her short-lived 1957-1958 comedy

Comedy

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/variety show

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, The Polly Bergen Show

The Polly Bergen Show

The Polly Bergen Show is a half-hour 18-episode comedy/variety show, starring then 27-year-old Polly Bergen, which aired on NBC in the 1957-1958 television season. The program is remembered for its impressive guest-star lineup as well as its closing theme song, "The Party's Over" .The Polly Bergen...

, aired on NBC

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 on September 21, 1957.

A recording by The Ames Brothers also charted. It was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 47-6930. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts

Billboard charts

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 on July 22, 1957. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at #5; on the Best Seller chart, at #24; on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached #29. On the Cash Box magazine

Cash Box magazine

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 charts, where all versions were combined, the song reached #1.

Sergio Franchi

Sergio Franchi

Sergio Franchi was an Italian tenor.Franchi was born in Cremona, Italy. His father wanted him to become an electrical engineer, so he studied both music and engineering simultaneously. The family moved to South Africa in 1952, where Sergio worked part-time as a draftsman, while continuing to study...

 returned to England in 1963 to record this song with conductor Wally Stott on his RCA Victor Red Seal album Women in My Life. A Trini Lopez

Trini Lopez

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 version of "Tammy" was recorded for his LP The Love Album (Reprise Records

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 R-6165). In 2002, the song was recorded by Michael Feinstein

Michael Feinstein

Michael Jay Feinstein is an American singer, pianist, and music revivalist. He is an interpreter of, and an anthropologist and archivist for, the repertoire known as the Great American Songbook. In 1988 he won a Drama Desk Special Award for celebrating American musical theatre songs...

 for his album, Livingston And Evans Songbook. Swedish

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 singer/songwriter, Jens Lekman

Jens Lekman

Jens Martin Lekman is a Swedish musician. His music is guitar-based pop with heavy use of samples and strings, with lyrics that are often witty, romantic, and melancholic. The English lyrics reflect an advanced knowledge of the language and its idioms...

 recorded a version of the song on his 2005 Australia

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n tour EP

Extended play

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 You Deserve Someone Better Than a Bum Like Me

You Deserve Someone Better than a Bum Like Me

You Deserve Someone Better Than a Bum Like Me is an EP released by Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman in May 2005 on his Australian tour.-Track listing:#"I Don't Know If She's Worth 900 Kr"#"The One Dollar Thought"...

Olivia Newton-John

Olivia Newton-John

Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE is a singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles and 14 of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA...

 has stated that her performance of "Hopelessly Devoted to You

Hopelessly Devoted to You

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" in the movie Grease

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is inspired by Debbie Reynolds' performance of "Tammy" in Tammy and the Bachelor.

Nancy Sinatra

Nancy Sinatra

Nancy Sandra Sinatra is an American singer and actress. She is the daughter of singer/actor Frank Sinatra, and remains best known for her 1966 signature hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"....

had covered the song.