Tommy Edwards - It's All In the Game

"It's All in the Game" is a pop song whose most successful version was recorded by Tommy Edwards in 1958. Carl Sigman composed the lyrics in 1951 to a wordless 1911 composition titled "Melody in A Major", written by Charles G. Dawes, who was later Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge. It is the only No. 1 single in the U.S. to have been co-written by a U.S. Vice President or a Nobel Peace Prize laureate (Dawes was both).Edwards' version was released in August 1951 and topped the Hot 100 on September 29 (6 weeks). In the U.K. peaked the Chart on November 7 (3 weeks)