My Whole World Is Falling Down

"My Whole World Is Falling Down"
Single by Brenda Lee
from the album By Request
A-side"I Wonder"
ReleasedJuly 8, 1963
RecordedApril 9, 1963
GenrePop
Length1:52
LabelDecca
Songwriter(s)Bill Anderson, Jerry Crutchfield
Producer(s)Owen Bradley
Brenda Lee singles chronology
"Losing You"
(1963)
"My Whole World Is Falling Down"
(1963)
"The Grass Is Greener"
(1963)
Audio
"My Whole World Is Falling Down" on YouTube

"My Whole World Is Falling Down" is a song written by Bill Anderson and Jerry Crutchfield and performed by Brenda Lee. Its chorus is based on the nursery rhyme "London Bridge Is Falling Down".[1] The song reached #8 on the Adult Contemporary chart and #24 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963.[2] The song is featured on her 1964 album, By Request.[3] The song also reached #16 in Australia.

Lee's recording of the song appeared in the 1982 Costa-Gavras film Missing.

  1. ^ Michael Jack Kirby. "Brenda Lee". Wayback Attack. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  2. ^ Brenda Lee, "My Whole World Is Falling Down" Chart Positions Retrieved May 13, 2014
  3. ^ Brenda Lee, By Request Retrieved May 13, 2014