"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 | |||
Paul Anka singles chronology | ||||
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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, three weeks 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]