Put Your Head on My Shoulder

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Not to be confused with Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder).
For other uses, see Put Your Head on My Shoulder (disambiguation).

"Put Your Head on My Shoulder"
Put Your Head on My Shoulder - Paul Anka.jpg
Single by Paul Anka
B-side"Don't Ever Leave Me"
ReleasedAugust 17, 1959
RecordedAugust 7, 1958
StudioBell Sound Studios, New York City
Genre
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)

"Put Your Head on My Shoulder" is a song written by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Paul Anka. Anka's version was recorded in August 1958, 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.

Covers[]

The song was again popular when it was released as a single by The Lettermen in 1968. This version peaked at No. 44 on the Billboard Hot 100; it was more successful on the Easy Listening chart, where it peaked at No. 8.[3][4]

Enrique Guzmán (Mexican singer) recorded a Spanish version in the 1960s titled "Tu cabeza en mi hombro". In Latin America, that cover is even more popular than the original one. Chilean singer Myriam Hernández recorded this version in a duet with Paul Anka himself with his original version.[citation needed]

Australian, Derek Redfern covered the song, which peaked at number 71 on the Australian Kent Music Report in 1974.[5]

Leif Garrett (American singer) did a take on it in 1978, which reached No. 58 on the Billboard Hot 100.[6]

Doja Cat (American singer) sampled it in her 2021 song "Freak". The rhythm is similar between the two songs as well, heard throughout.[7]

Ex-Menudo Robby Rosa and the Brazilian duo Gabriela e Tatiana recorded Portuguese versions in the 1980s, Robby's version being "Com você nos meus sonhos" and Gabriela and Tatiana's version being "Essa mão no meu ombro".[citation needed]

In popular culture[]

A mashed up version of Doja Cat's "Streets" containing the first 12 seconds of "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" became a TikTok challenge known as the "Silhouette Challenge".[8]

Charts[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Paul Anka - Put Your Head On My Shoulder". 45cat.com. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  2. ^ "The Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.com. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  3. ^ "The Lettermen – Chart history | Billboard". www.billboard.com. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  4. ^ "The Lettermen – Chart history | Billboard". www.billboard.com. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  5. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 248. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  6. ^ "Leif Garrett, "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" Chart Position". Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  7. ^ "FREAK by Doja Cat – Samples, Covers and Remixes ..." Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  8. ^ "Best of the #SilhouetteChallenge on TikTok: WATCH - Vulture". Vulture. 28 January 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  9. ^ "Ultratop.be – Paul Anka – Put Your Head on My Shoulder" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  10. ^ "Ultratop.be – Paul Anka – Put Your Head on My Shoulder" (in French). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  11. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Paul Anka – Put Your Head on My Shoulder" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  12. ^ "Paul Anka: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  13. ^ "Paul Anka Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  14. ^ "Paul Anka Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard.
  15. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Paul Anka – Put Your Head on My Shoulder". GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 14 May 2018. To see peak chart position, click "TITEL VON Paul Anka"
  16. ^ "Billboard Hot 100 60th Anniversary Interactive Chart". Billboard. Retrieved 10 December 2018.

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