Wooden Heart "Dinner At Eight". A cover version by Joe Dowell on the Smash Records label made it to number one in the US at the end of August 1961, knocking Bobby Lewis' "Tossin' and Turnin'" off the number-one spot of the "Billboard" Hot 100 after seven weeks. Dowell's version also spent three weeks at number one on the Easy Listening chart. "Wooden Heart", created by Fred Wise, Ben Weisman, Kay Twomey and German bandleader Bert Kaempfert, was based on a German folk song by Friedrich Silcher, "Muss i denn", originating from the Rems Valley in Württemberg, southwest Germany. "Wooden Heart" features
Anyone Who Had a Heart (song) Olympic Studios on 21 January 1964. The Breakaways – who sang on Cilla Black's "Anyone Who Had a Heart" - also sing on Springfield's recording. Shirley Bassey, the vocalist for whom "Anyone Who Had a Heart" was brought to the UK, recorded it only in 1978 for her "The Magic Is You" album with veteran producer Nick DeCaro. He had previously produced a version by Vikki Carr included on the 1968 album "The Way of Today!". The 1982 B.E.F. album "Music of Quality and Distinction, Vol. 1" featured a rendering of "Anyone Who Had a Heart" by Sandie Shaw, marking