It's Such a Pretty World Today

That same year, Mexican-American singer Andy Russell recorded a cover version of the song. Russell had enjoyed quite a bit of popularity in the U.S. throughout the 1940s and 1950s, recording songs such as "Bésame Mucho" and co-starring in a short-lived daily musical show with his then-wife, Della, on ABC from 1950-1951.[2][3] After the couple divorced, Russell left the U.S. and attained great success in Mexico and Latin America as a singer, actor, and host of his own television show. He returned in the mid 1960s and tried resurrecting his singing career. Although his cover of "It's Such a Pretty World Today" failed to reach the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart (it "bubbled under", peaking at No. 119), it did spend one week at No. 1 on the adult contemporary chart, making the song the first to top the AC chart while not entering the pop chart.[4]

Other artists who have recorded cover versions of the song include: Loretta Lynn, whose version appears on her 1967 album Singin' with Feelin'; Nancy Sinatra, who also recorded the song in 1967 and included it on her album Country, My Way (that version of the song can be heard near the end of a second-season episode of the AMC drama Breaking Bad.[5]); Connie Smith also in 1967 on her Soul of Country Music album; and Marie Osmond, whose version appears on her 1973 album Paper Roses. Singer Mark Dinning reached #117 in the Record World Magazine charts. The Jimmy Bowen Singers released a version of the song as a single in 1967, but it did not chart.[6]