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Tonight you belong to me by Patience & Prudence in 1956
Patience and Prudence (last name McIntyre, but not used professionally) were two sisters who were a young singing act in the 1950s.
Their father, Mark McIntyre, was an orchestra leader, pianist, and songwriter. In the summer of 1956, he brought his daughters, 11-year-old Prudence and 14-year-old Patience, into the Liberty Records studio in Los Angeles. They made a demonstration recording of the song "Tonight You Belong to Me," which had been a hit for Gene Austin in 1927, written by Billy Rose and Lee David. Not only did Liberty sign them, but it immediately released a recording of the girls singing the song as a commercial single, (with the B-side "A Smile and a Ribbon," a composition with music by Mark McIntyre) and by September the song reached #4 on the Billboard charts and #28 in the United Kingdom, and the biggest selling record put out by Liberty for two years. Another recording by the girls, "Gonna Get Along without Ya Now," was released the same year and reached #11 on the Billboard chart and #22 in the UK; its B-side, "The Money Tree," reached #73 in the U.S.
The two girls continued to record, but did not have any subsequent hit records.
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