Put Your Head on My Shoulder

"Put Your Head on My Shoulder" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Paul Anka. Anka's version was recorded in August 1958 and released as a single by ABC-Paramount in 1959 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 #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 (kept of out the #1 spot by Bobby Darin's recording of "Mack the Knife").[2]

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"
Single by Paul Anka
B-side"Don't Ever Leave Me"
ReleasedAugust 1959
Recorded1959
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)

Covers

The song was again popular when it was released as a single by The Lettermen in 1968. This version peaked at #44 on the Billboard Hot 100; it was more successful on the Easy Listening chart, where it peaked at #8. [3][4]

Nancy Sinatra covered the song as the B-side to her 1963 single "I See the Moon".

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.

Enoch Light & the Brass Menagerie did an instrumental cover version from their second self-titled album in 1968.

Leif Garrett (American singer)did a take on it in 1978, which reached #58 on the Billboard Hot 100.[5]

Chilean pop singer Myriam Hernández, together with Anka, recorded a Spanglish version for his duets album Amigos.

Draco Rosa (Ex Menudo known as Robby) recorded a Portuguese version titled "Com você nos meus sonhos".

Gabriela e Tatiana recorded a Brasilian version in the 1988s titled Essa mão no meu ombro in the album Não é fácil chegar aos 15 anos.[6]

Michael Bublé also did the song on his eponymously titled 2003 debut album. American rock band Good Charlotte performed it for the movie Not Another Teen Movie entitled "Put Your Heads on My Shoulder". The song is also featured in the video game Hitman: Contracts.

The song was sampled on South African-American rapper Doja Cat's 2020 single "Freak".

Charts

References
  1. 45cat - Paul Anka - Put Your Head On My Shoulder / Don't Ever Leave Me - ABC-Paramount - USA - 45,10040
  2. https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1959-10-19
  3. "The Lettermen - Chart history | Billboard". www.billboard.com. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  4. "The Lettermen - Chart history | Billboard". www.billboard.com. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  5. "Leif Garrett, "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" Chart Position". Retrieved December 10, 2016.
  6. https://www.discogs.com/it/Gabriela-N%C3%A3o-F%C3%A1cil-Chegar-Aos-15-Anos/release/6114995
  7. "Ultratop.be – Paul Anka – Put Your Head on My Shoulder" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  8. "Ultratop.be – Paul Anka – Put Your Head on My Shoulder" (in French). Ultratop 50. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  9. "Musicline.de – Paul Anka Single-Chartverfolgung" (in German). Media Control Charts. PhonoNet GmbH. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  10. "Dutchcharts.nl – Paul Anka – Put Your Head on My Shoulder" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  11. "Paul Anka: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  12. "Paul Anka Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  13. "Paul Anka Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard.
  14. "Billboard Hot 100 60th Anniversary Interactive Chart". Billboard. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
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