You Were Mine (The Fireflies song)

"You Were Mine"
Single by The Fireflies
B-side"Stella Got a Fella"
ReleasedJune 1959
Recorded1959
GenreDoo-wop
Length1:52
LabelRibbon
Songwriter(s)Paul Giacalone
The Fireflies singles chronology
"The Crawl"
(1958)
"You Were Mine"
(1959)
"I Can't Say Goodbye"
(1959)

"You Were Mine" is a song written and recorded in 1959 by Paul Giacalone and performed by American doo-wop group The Fireflies.

"You Were Mine" was written by 19-year-old Giacalone about a girl he met while he was touring.[1] It spent 16 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, and peaked at #21 on October 26, 1959,[2][3] while reaching #15 on Canada's CHUM Hit Parade.[4]

  1. ^ "Paul N. Giacalone". paulngiacalone.com. Retrieved 2015-09-26.
  2. ^ Hot 100 - You Were Mine The Fireflies, Billboard.com. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  3. ^ "The Billboard HOT 100", Billboard, October 26, 1959. p. 40. Accessed September 26, 2015
  4. ^ "CHUM Hit Parade", CHUM, Week of November 09, 1959