"My Adobe Hacienda" is a song composed by

Louise Massey Louise Massey (born ''Victoria Louise Massey''; 10 August 1902 – 20 June 1983, in San Angelo, Texas), American singer and songwriter born in Midland, Texas. The Massey family left Texas while Louise Massey was very young and she grew up near ...

and

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. It first became popular in 1941 with Massey's recorded version, where it placed at #23. The song was most popular in 1947 when Eddy Howard took the song to #2. That year the song was also recorded by Kenny Baker (#16), the

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(#9), and the Billy Williams Quartet (#13). Massey's original recording was re-released, and this time attained a chart position of #16. Between May and June 1947, the song appeared on Your Hit Parade for three weeks. Billboard listed it as 1947's 12th best seller in sheet music. Art Kassel released the song as a

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picture disc. In the lyrics, the singer describes a sense of fulfillment in both life and love when at "my

adobe Adobe ( ; ) is a building material made from earth and organic materials. is Spanish for '' mudbrick''. In some English-speaking regions of Spanish heritage, such as the Southwestern United States, the term is used to refer to any kind of ...

hacienda An ''hacienda'' ( or ; or ) is an estate (or '' finca''), similar to a Roman '' latifundium'', in Spain and the former Spanish Empire. With origins in Andalusia, ''haciendas'' were variously plantations (perhaps including animals or orchard ...

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