The Wall (1957 song)

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"The Wall" is a popular song, written by Clyde Otis.

It was most successfully popularized by Patti Page in 1957. The Page recording was issued by Mercury Records as catalog number 71059, (the flip side of "A Poor Man's Roses (or a Rich Man's Gold)") and first reached the Billboard chart on March 6, 1957, lasting 6 weeks and peaking at #43.

Other 1957 recordings were made by Eileen Rodgers as Columbia Records catalog number 40850, and by Brook Benton.

On the Cash Box Best-Selling Records charts, where multiple versions of a song were always combined, the song lasted 5 weeks and peaked at #42.