Alfie (Burt Bacharach song) in release in the US: besides the Cher version from the film and the Cilla Black original which had been issued in the US that July to peak at No.95 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, "Alfie" had been recorded by Vikki Carr, Jack Jones, Tony Martin, Carmen McRae, Joanie Sommers and Billy Vaughn. The five last-named singers had recorded "Alfie" in hopes of taking the song into the "Billboard" Easy Listening chart rather than scoring a mainstream Pop hit and both Joanie Sommers and Carmen McRae did score an Easy Listening hit with their respective versions of "Alfie" (Sommers -
The Caine Mutiny 1952, when it was replaced by "My Cousin Rachel". It moved back to first place on May 25, 1952, and remained another 15 weeks, before being supplanted by "The Silver Chalice", and last appeared on August 23, 1953, after 122 weeks on the list. In 1954 Columbia Pictures released the film "The Caine Mutiny" starring Humphrey Bogart as Queeg in a widely acclaimed performance that earned him the third and final Academy Award nomination of his career. After the novel's success, Wouk adapted the court-martial sequence into a full-length, two-act Broadway play, "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial". Directed by Charles