"From the Candy Store on the Corner to the Chapel on the Hill" is a popular song by Bob Hilliard, published in 1956.
The recording by Tony Bennett and Lois Winter was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 40726. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on August 18, 1956 and lasted 7 weeks on the chart. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at #11; on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached #33. The flip side, Happiness Street (Corner Sunshine Square) was also a charted hit, so this was a two-sided hit.
Famous quotes containing the words from the, candy, store, corner, chapel and/or hill:
“How did they meet? By chance, like everybody.... Where did they come from? From the nearest place. Where were they going? Do we know where we are going?”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“I’m headed for a land that’s far away
Beside the crystal fountains.
So come with me, we’ll go and see
The Big Rock Candy Mountains.”
—Unknown. The Big Rock Candy Mountains (l. 5–8)
“Finishing schools in the fifties were a good place to store girls for a few years before marrying them off, a satisfactory rest stop between college weekends spent husband hunting. It was a haven for those of us adept at styling each other’s hair, playing canasta, and chain smoking Pall Mall extra-long cigarettes.”
—Barbara Howar (b. 1934)
“I had rather be a toad,
And live upon the vapour of a dungeon
Than keep a corner in the thing I love
For others’ uses.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“whan he rood, men myghte his brydel heere
Gynglen in a whistlynge wynd als cleere
And eek as loude as dooth the chapel belle.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“I have felt darkness lead me by the hand
Over the hill to greet the singing dawn....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)