answers: Joni James
context: on February 11, 1945 for Decca Records as catalog number 23413. It first reached the "Billboard" magazine Best Seller chart on May 24, 1945, and lasted 9 weeks on the chart, peaking at #4. The Charlie Spivak orchestra released a version by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-1663. It first reached the "Billboard" magazine Best Seller chart on May 17, 1945 and lasted 2 weeks on the chart, peaking at #9. Later in the same decade (1949) Alfredo Antonini and his orchestra collaborated with Victoria Cordova (vocalist) and John Serry Sr. to record the song for Muzak. In 1955, </s> focus from a wartime background "into a kind of universal song about separated lovers" and changing the title to "You Belong to Me". Price had previously had success with another hit which she had written, "Slow Poke", under a similar arrangement with the two men. The first 1952 recording of the song was by Joni James. She had seen the sheet music in the Woods Building in Chicago and the lyrics attracted her. She recorded the song in February, 1952, in Chicago and it was released in March on the local Sharp Records label. After she signed to MGM, it </s> You Belong to Me (1941 film) You Belong to Me is a 1941 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. Based on a story by Dalton Trumbo, and written by Claude Binyon, the film is about a wealthy man who meets and falls in love with a beautiful doctor while on a ski trip. After a courtship complicated by his hypochondria, she agrees to marry him on the condition that she continue to practice medicine. His jealousy at the thought of her seeing male patients, however, soon threatens their marriage.
question: who sang the original you belong to me