Hey Paula (song)

"Hey Paula"
Single by Paul & Paula
from the album Sing for Young Lovers
B-side"Bobby Is the One"
Released1962
Recorded1962
GenrePop[1]
Length2:27
LabelLe Cam, Philips (US)
Sparton (Canada)
Songwriter(s)Ray Hildebrand
Producer(s)
Paul & Paula singles chronology
"Hey Paula"
(1962) 		"Young Lovers"
(1963)

"Hey Paula" is an American love song recorded by the pop singing duo Paul & Paula in 1962. Released as a single, it hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the week ending February 9, 1963, and also made it to number one on the Hot R&B Singles chart,[2] and number one in Canada's CHUM Chart for three weeks.[3] "Paul" was the song's writer, Ray Hildebrand,[4] a student at Texas' Howard Payne University, a Baptist institution in the city of Brownwood. "Paula" was Jill Jackson, the niece of the owner of the boarding house where Ray lived.

  1. ^ Breihan, Tom (May 9, 2018). "The Number Ones: Paul & Paula's "Hey Paula"". Stereogum. Retrieved June 10, 2023. There was so much great pop music in the pre-Beatles era...yet a song like "Hey Paula" is pretty much what people imagine when they think about that stretch.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 453.
  3. ^ "CHUM Hit Parade - February 4, 1963".
  4. ^ "Ray Hildebrand - Hey Paula Official Site". rayhildebrand.com. Retrieved 28 March 2019.