The popular song about nostalgia was first issued by Mindy Carson with Ray Conniff's Orchestra & The Columbians and reached no.53 on Billboard's Top 100 chart. The most popular version of the song was recorded by Dean Martin in 1955 (released on November 28). He was backed by the Easy Riders (who consisted of Gilkyson, Dehr, and Miller), who wrote it. Finally it became Martin's biggest hit with no.1 positions in the United States and United Kingdom. In Germany, titled "Heimweh" ("Homesickness") and performed by Freddy Quinn and with lyrics by Ernst Bader and Dieter Rasch, the song was 14 weeks at number one... the most successful song of 1956 there.