| "Puppet Man" | ||||
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| Single by The 5th Dimension | ||||
| from the album Portrait | ||||
| B-side | "A Love Like Ours" | |||
| Released | March 1970 | |||
| Genre | Soul | |||
| Length | 2:58 | |||
| Label | Bell Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Sedaka-Greenfield | |||
| Producer(s) | Bones Howe | |||
| The 5th Dimension singles chronology | ||||
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"Puppet Man" is a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. It was originally recorded by Sedaka on his 1969 Workin' on a Groovy Thing LP. The first hit version was by The Fifth Dimension in 1970. The following year it was also a hit for Tom Jones.
The Fifth Dimension's original of "Puppet Man" reached #24 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 1970.