| "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" | ||||
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| Single by Paul Anka | ||||
| B-side | "Don't Ever Leave Me" | |||
| Released | August 17, 1959 | |||
| Recorded | August 7, 1958 | |||
| Studio | Bell Sound (New York City) | |||
| Genre | Pop, doo-wop | |||
| Length | 2:37 | |||
| Label | ABC-Paramount | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Paul Anka | |||
| Producer(s) | Don Costa | |||
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| "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" on YouTube | ||||
"Put Your Head on My Shoulder" is a song written by Canadian-born singer-songwriter Paul Anka. Anka's version was recorded in August 1958 at Bell Sound Studios in New York City, twenty days before he recorded his no. 1 hit "Lonely Boy", and was released as a single on August 17, 1959, by ABC-Paramount as catalog number 4510040. It was arranged and conducted by Don Costa. The B-side was "Don't Ever Leave Me".[1] "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" became very successful, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 (kept out of the No. 1 spot by Bobby Darin's recording of "Mack the Knife").[2] It was his third top five hit of 1959. In Canada the song reached No. 4 on the CHUM Charts.[3]
- ^ "Paul Anka - Put Your Head On My Shoulder". 45cat.com. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ^ "The Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. 2 January 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ^ "CHUM Top 20 Singles - October 12, 1959".