"Paper Roses" is a popular song written and composed by Fred Spielman and Janice Torre. It first was a top five hit in 1960 for Anita Bryant. Marie Osmond recorded it in 1973 and took her version to number one on the US country chart.
Paper Roses
Anita Jane Bryant is an American singer. She had three top 20 hits in the United States in the early 1960s. She was the 1958 Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner, and a brand ambassador from 1969 to 1980 for the Florida Citrus Commission.
From Billboard, January 1971
Anita Bryant with a sailor during a Bob Hope USO show on the USS Ticonderoga in 1965
Bryant during a photoshoot for Coca-Cola
Fundraising card for the Save Our Children campaign