She made a different recording of the work on her 1963 album, The Second Barbra Streisand Album, which was a critical success and has enjoyed enduring popularity. Stewart's single of the work, made for Colpix Records, was paired with "I Heard You Cry Last Night" as a b-side. No less than four single versions of it reached BMW for review last week, and more are reported in the works. Ballard brought the song to the producers of the television show The Perry Como Kraft Music Hall with whom she was a regular performer. While not originally written for one of their musicals, the song was included in the Off-Broadway musical revue And the World Goes ‘Round: The Songs of Kander and Ebb in 1991.

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Kander and Ebb performed the song for Nick Vanoff, one of the producers of the show, who liked the song but felt the material needed a singer other than Ballard.

This release did not sell well, and the 1962 recordings of "My Coloring Book" by Sandy Stewart and Kitty Kallen both were more financially profitable that Streisand's version. The critical and public response to this performance was enthusiastic, with more than 20,000 fan letters coming in for Stewart about her performance. The producers of The Perry Como Kraft Music Hall had Sandy Stewart perform the premiere of the song on the October 31, 1962 broadcast of the television program. Stewart's recording of the song was nominated for the 1963 Grammy Award for Best Solo Vocal Performance, Female and Kander and Ebb were nominated for the 1963 Grammy Award for Song of the Year. Kallen's single sold very well, and by January 12, 1963, her version and Stewart's version were closely matched on the Billboard Hot 100 with Kallen placing 13th and Stewart placing 14th on the chart.

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Kander and Ebb originally wrote the song "My Coloring Book" for Kaye Ballard who was a close friends of the song writing duo. Her version was arranged and conducted by Robert Mersey, the song was released as Barbra Streisand's second single release in November 1962, as a double single with " Lover, Come Back To Me". Record sales of her single were boosted considerably by several more performances of the song on television, including The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and The Merv Griffin Show. The King's Singers recorded it for their 1972 album The King's Singers Collection; reissued on the 2005 CD, Colouring Book.Stewart's single charted in the top 20, and so did another 1962 single version of the song recorded by Kitty Kallen. First performed by Sandy Stewart in 1962 on the television program The Perry Como Kraft Music Hall, she was one of the first artists to record the work in 1962 when it was released as a single. Chakiris's single was paired with the song "I've Got Your Number" as a b side and was made with Capitol Records. Record labels and performing artists quickly lobbied Kander and Ebb for the right to record and perform the song, resulting in multiple different single recording releases in 1962.