"Church Bells May Ring" (Tony Middleton) was first recorded by The Willows (Tony Middleton, Richie Davis, John Steele, twins Ralph and Joe Martin) in 1956. That's Neil Sedaka playing the chimes. This peaked in the R&B top twenty.

In the same year the white cover was released by The Diamonds (group details elsewhere in this blog) and it reached top twenty on Billboard's Top One Hundred.