The song became a big crossover hit in 1957 for Bobby Helms. "My Special Angel" peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart^[1] and also spent four weeks at number one on the Country chart ^[2]. The single made the R&B chart as well peaking at number eight ^[3]. The backing vocals were sung by the Anita Kerr Singers.

It was revived in 1968 by The Vogues, a vocal group founded in Pennsylvania who had already scored Top 10 hits in the U.S. with the songs "You're the One" and "Five O'Clock World". This cover of "My Special Angel" also reached number seven on the Hot 100 chart ^[4]; it fared better on the Easy Listening chart (which would later become known as the Adult Contemporary chart), where it spent two weeks at #1.

In the United Kingdom, a version recorded by Malcolm Vaughan spent 14 weeks on the charts, peaking at #3.

June 18, 1940 - Winston Churchill delivered his "Finest Hour" speech.

June 18, 1940 - Benito Mussolini arrived in Munich to meet with Adolf Hitler. Mussolini's foreign minister, Count Ciano, recorded in his diary that Mussolini left the meeting "very much embarrassed," and feeling "that his role is secondary."

June 18, 1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) was charged with treason.