Kay Starr in 1999.
This week’s Featured Lyrics are to “Wheel of Fortune”, written by Bennie Benjamin and George David Weiss, and made most famous by Kay Starr. We’re posting lyrics of hit songs so that our songwriters can study them to see how winning songs are constructed. Of course a lot depends on the melody, the rhythm and the artist as to whether or not the song will sell… and whether or not it is in the right place at the right time!
Lyrics to “Wheel of Fortune”
The wheel of fortune goes spinning around
Will the arrow point my way, will this be my day?
Oh, wheel of fortune, please, don’t pass me by
Let me know the magic of a kiss and a sigh
While the wheel is spinning, spinning, spinning
I’ll not dream of winning fortune or fame
While the wheel is turning, turning, turning
I’ll be yearning, yearning for love’s precious flame
Oh, wheel of fortune, I’m hoping somehow
If you’ll ever smile on me, please, let it be now
While the wheel is spinning, spinning, spinning
I’ll not dream of winning fortune or even fame
While the wheel is turning, turning, turning
I’ll be yearning, yearning for love’s precious flame
Oh, wheel of fortune, I’m hoping somehow
If you ever smile on me, please, let it be now
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“Wheel of Fortune” is a popular song written by Bennie Benjamin and George David Weiss and published in 1951. It was originally recorded in 1951 for RCA by Johnny Hartman. The song was also used as the theme to the television series Wheel of Fortune.
Kay Starr recording: released by Capitol Records as catalog number 1677, with the flip side “Angry,” and 1964, with the flip side “I Wanna Love You”; first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on February 8, 1952 and lasted 22 weeks on the chart, peaking at #1.