Everybody Loves a Lover Columbia catalog number 41195, "Everybody Loves a Lover" first reached the "Billboard" magazine charts on July 21, 1958. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at number 6; on the Best Seller chart, at number 17; and on the Hot 100 composite chart, it reached number 14. The Doris Day version is noteworthy for the third verse, in which, through overdubbing, the first four lines of verse 2 are superimposed on the first four lines of verse 1, creating a counterpoint duet. The two segments end on the same word, "Pollyanna", sung in harmony. The song was Day's last big
Everybody Loves a Lover "Live! At Caesar's Palace". In its original traditional pop format, "Everybody Loves a Lover" has also been recorded by The Angels (whose 1962 version bubbled under the Hot 100 with a #103 peak), Alice Babs (as "Den som glad är" ), Chisu (as "Kellä Kulta, Sillä Onni" ), Sacha Distel (as "Dis! O Dis!" ), Nana Gualdi (as "Junge Leute Brauchen Liebe" ), Jan Howard, Laila Kinnunen (as "Kellä Kulta, Sillä Onni" ), Lill-Babs (as "Den som glad är" ), Angélica María (as "Vivaracho" ), Guy Mitchell, Jane Morgan, Line Renaud (as "Dis! O Dis!" ), and Keely Smith. In