My Fair Lady (Shelly Manne album) Leroy Vinnegar assembled on August 17, 1956, in the Contemporary studios in Los Angeles to produce an album of jazz versions of miscellaneous show tunes. (The three, having already recorded together as "Shelly Manne and His Friends", had some experience performing as a trio.) Previn and Manne were exchanging ideas with producer Lester Koenig, who suggested they do some tunes from the current Broadway musical "My Fair Lady". Manne and Previn were so impressed with the Lerner and Loewe songs for the show, that they decided to record more of them. They ended up filling the entire album with "My
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own included on a compilation release which was entitled "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own". The most successful country version was by Susan Raye in 1972 which hit Billboard's Top 10 Country Singles. Debby Boone made a slightly less successful hit of it in 1979, peaking at #11; Boone subsequently made less successful bids for C&W chart success with remakes of the Connie Francis hits "Breakin' in a Brand New Broken Heart" (#25) and "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" (#48). "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" was recorded by Reba McEntire early in her career; that version was first