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]'s recording of the song as an instrumental with his orchestra featuring trumpeter Billy Regis,<ref name="500 Number One Hits"/> whose trumpet sound would slide down and up before the melody would resume, was the most popular version. |
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]'s recording of the song as an instrumental with his orchestra featuring trumpeter Billy Regis,<ref name="500 Number One Hits"/> whose trumpet sound would slide down and up before the melody would resume, was the most popular version. |
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It was first recorded and released in Mexico in 1953<ref>{{cite web |title=Cerezo rosa|url=https://latinpop.fiu.edu/albumdd.cfm?bid=7050&term=Cerezo+rosa |website=The Díaz-Ayala Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection |access-date=28 January 2023}}</ref> under the full title "Cerezo Rosa (Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White)", becoming one of the biggest hits of that year in Mexico.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mejía Barquera |first1=Fernando |title=El Sound Track de la vida cotidiana: Radio y música popular en México D.F. |date=June 2006 |publisher=Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales UNAM|page=202}}</ref> It was then released in the United States in 1954, becoming a hit there in 1955 as it reached number one for 10 weeks on the '']'' chart. It became a ], and it was featured on the movie '']'' (1955), where ] can be seen dancing to the song. Prado recorded "Cherry Pink" several times, the best known version being the original hit recording from 1953 and the 1960 recording in stereo. <ref name="500 Number One Hits"/> |
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It was first recorded and released in Mexico in 1953<ref>{{cite web |title=Cerezo rosa|url=https://latinpop.fiu.edu/albumdd.cfm?bid=7050&term=Cerezo+rosa |website=The Díaz-Ayala Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection |access-date=28 January 2023}}</ref> under the full title "Cerezo Rosa (Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White)", becoming one of the biggest hits of that year in Mexico.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mejía Barquera |first1=Fernando |title=El Sound Track de la vida cotidiana: Radio y música popular en México D.F. |date=June 2006 |publisher=Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales UNAM|page=202}}</ref> It was then released in the United States in 1954, becoming a hit there in 1955 as it reached number one for 10 weeks on the '']'' chart. It became a ], and it was featured on the movie '']'' (1955), where ] can be seen dancing to the song. Prado recorded "Cherry Pink" several times, the best known version being the original hit recording from 1953 and the 1960 recording in stereo.<ref name="500 Number One Hits"/> |
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''Billboard'' ranked the former version as the number one song of 1955. The most popular vocal version in the U.S. was by ], reaching No. 14 on the chart in 1955.<ref>{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=159}}</ref> |
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''Billboard'' ranked the former version as the number one song of 1955. The most popular vocal version in the U.S. was by ], reaching No. 14 on the chart in 1955.<ref>{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=159}}</ref> |
In the United Kingdom, two versions of the song went to number one in 1955. The first was the version by Prado, which reached number one for two weeks. Less than a month later, a version by the British trumpeter Eddie Calvert reached number one for four weeks.