Put Your Head on My Shoulder (song)

"Put Your Head on My Shoulder"
Single by Paul Anka
B-side"Don't Ever Leave Me"
ReleasedAugust 17, 1959
RecordedAugust 7, 1958
StudioBell Sound (New York City)
GenrePop, doo-wop
Length2:37
LabelABC-Paramount
Songwriter(s)Paul Anka
Producer(s)Don Costa
Paul Anka singles chronology
"Lonely Boy"
(1959)
"Put Your Head on My Shoulder"
(1959)
"It's Time to Cry"
(1959)
Music video
"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]

  1. ^ "Paul Anka - Put Your Head On My Shoulder". 45cat.com. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  2. ^ "The Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. 2 January 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  3. ^ "CHUM Top 20 Singles - October 12, 1959".