Misty

Album: Heavenly (1959)
Charted: 12
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  • Look at me
    I'm as helpless as a kitten up a tree
    And I feel like I'm clinging to a cloud
    I can't understand
    I get misty, holding your hand

    Walk my way
    And a thousand violins begin to play
    Or it might be the sound of your hello
    That music I hear
    I get misty the moment you're near

    You can say that you're leading me on
    But it's just what I want you to do
    Don't you realize how hopelessly I'm lost
    That's why I'm following you

    On my own
    Would I wander through this wonderland alone
    Never knowing my right foot from my left
    My hat from my glove
    I get misty, and too much in love

    I'm too misty, and too much in love Writer/s: MIKE OLDFIELD
    Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

  • Rosemarie from FloridaMisty was our favorite song to dance to. My husband has since passed and we would have been married 61 years in 2025.
    Cry everytime I hear Johnny Mathis our favorite song. Love you Dom. Someday we will see each other again.
  • Unclemike from AstoriaErrol Garner, Johnny Mathis and Ray Stevens, all are the best versions but Ella Fitzgerald's is well worth listening to as well.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 20th 1975, Ray Stevens' covered version of "Misty" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #81; eleven weeks later on July 6th, 1975 it would peak at #14 {for 2 weeks} and spent 16 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #3 on June 1st, 1975 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart...
    In the United Kingdom is peaked at #2 and also reached #2 on the Canadian RPM Country chart...
    Mr. Stevens, born Harold Ray Ragsdale, will celebrate his 77th birthday come next January 24th {2016}.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 25th 1965, Johnny Mathis performed "Misty" on the ABC-TV program 'Shindig!'...
    Six years earlier on October 5th, 1959 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #58; and eight weeks later on November 30th, 1959 it peaked at #12 {for 1 week} and spent 17 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #10 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
    The record's B-side, "The Story of Our Life", also made the Top 100, it stayed on the chart for 2 weeks, peaking at #93...
    Between 1957 and 1984 he had forty-four Top 100 records; six made the Top 10 with two reaching #1, "Chances Are" for one week on October 15th, 1957 on Billboard's Most Played by Jockeys chart and "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late", a duet Deniece Williams, for one week on May 28th, 1978...
    R.I.P. Jimmy O'Neil {Shindig's host, 1940 - 2013} and John Royce Mathis will celebrate his 80th birthday come next September 30th {2015}.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn September 29th 1963, Lloyd Price's covered version of "Misty" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #69; and on November 10th, 1963 it peaked at #21 {for 1 week} and spent 9 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #11 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
    Between 1957 and 1964 he had seventeen Top 100 records; three made the Top 10 with one reaching #1, "Stagger Lee" for 4 weeks on February 3rd, 1959...
    He just missed having a second #1 on the Top 100 when "Personality" peaked at #2 {for 3 weeks}* on June 15th, 1959...
    Mr. Price will celebrate his 82nd birthday this coming March 9th {2015}...
    * The three weeks it was at #2, the #1 record for those 3 weeks was "The Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton.
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