<P> "The Garden of Eden" is a song written and composed by Dennise Haas Norwood, and first recorded by Joe Valino, which reached Number 12 on the Billboard chart in October 1956 . Valino recorded the song at his second session with Vik, a subsidiary of RCA Records . "I knew it would be a hit, even as I was recording it," he told Wayne Jancik in The Billboard Book of One - Hit Wonders . </P> <P> One of the most popular versions was recorded by the singer Frankie Vaughan, and gave him his first No. 1 hit in the United Kingdom in early 1957 . The song first entered the UK Singles Chart on 11 January 1957, spent four weeks at the top, and 13 weeks in the charts altogether . </P>

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