Put Your Head on My Shoulder (song)

"Put Your Head on My Shoulder" is a song written by Canadian-born singer-songwriter Paul Anka, 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". "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"). It was his third top five hit of 1959. In Canada the song reached No. 4 on the CHUM Charts. In 2026, "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for its "cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation's recorded sound heritage."