Wooden Heart

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Wooden Heart (album)
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"Wooden Heart"
G.I. Blues
A-side"Blue Christmas" (USA 1964)
B-side"Tonight is So Right for Love" (UK 1961)
Released
  • 23 September 1960 (1960-09-23) (
    G.I. Blues
     album)
  • 10 March 1961 (1961-03-10) (UK single)
  • November 1964 (1964-11) (single)
Recorded28 April 1960
Genre
Length2:03
Steve Sholes[1]
Elvis Presley USA singles chronology
"Ask Me"
(1964) 		"Wooden Heart"
(1964) 		"Do the Clam"
(1965)
Elvis Presley UK singles chronology
"
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
"
(1960) 		"Wooden Heart"
(1961) 		"Surrender"
(1961)
Music video
"Wooden Heart" (audio) on
YouTube
"Wooden Heart"
Single by Joe Dowell
B-side"Little Bo Peep"
ReleasedJune 1961
GenrePop
Length2:01
LabelSmash
Songwriter(s)Fred Wise, Ben Weisman, Kay Twomey, Bert Kaempfert
Joe Dowell singles chronology
"Wooden Heart"
(1961) 		"The Bridge Of Love"
(1961)

"Wooden Heart" is a pop song recorded by

UK Singles Chart, reaching No. 1 for six weeks in March and April 1961.[1][2]

Background

The song was published by Elvis Presley's company Gladys Music, Inc. In the

Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas
in 1975, a recording available on the Elvis Presley live album Dinner At Eight.

A cover version by Joe Dowell on the Smash Records label made it to number one in the US at the end of August 1961, knocking Bobby Lewis' "Tossin' and Turnin'" off the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 after seven weeks. Dowell's version also spent three weeks at number one on the Easy Listening chart.[3]

"Wooden Heart", written by

B-side on a 1959 version of her single "Lili Marlene", released by Philips in association with Columbia Records.[4] The Elvis Presley version was published by Gladys Music, Elvis Presley's publishing company. Bobby Vinton
recorded his version in 1975 with those lines translated into Polish.

The Elvis Presley version features two sections in German, the first being the first four lines: "Muss i' denn zum Städtele hinaus". The second section is towards the end and is based on a translation of the English version (therefore not appearing in the original German folk lyrics): Sei mir gut, sei mir gut, sei mir wie du wirklich sollst, wie du wirklich sollst... ("Be good to me, be good to me, be to me how you really should, how you really should...").

Chart history

Elvis Presley

Sales

Sales for Wooden Heart
Region Sales
Europe 1,000,000[19]
Germany 600,000[20]
Netherlands 90,000[21]

Joe Dowell

Gus Backus

Chart (1960) Peak
position
West Germany (Official German Charts)[26] 2
US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100[14] 102

Editions

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Released on their 2015 Album Nobody's Children of previously unreleased material

References

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    ISBN 0-85112-250-7
    .
  2. ^
    ISBN 1-904994-10-5
    .
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–2001. Record Research. p. 82.
  4. ^ ""Lili Marlene" Philips issue". Discogs. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
  5. ^ a b "Australian Chart Books". Archive.today. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Elvis Presley – Wooden Heart (muss i denn...)" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
  7. ^ "Elvis Presley – Wooden Heart (muss i denn...)" (in French). Ultratop 50.
  8. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Elvis Presley – Wooden Heart (muss i denn...)" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts.
  9. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Wooden Heart". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  10. ^ a b c "Elvis Presley – Wooden Heart (muss i denn...)" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  11. ^ "flavour of new zealand - search lever". Flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  12. ^ "Elvis Presley – Wooden Heart (muss i denn...)". VG-lista.
  13. ^ a b "South Africa Top 40 Singles". 5 May 2009. Archived from the original on 5 May 2009. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  14. ^ a b c Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Billboard Hot 100 1959-2004
  15. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 40, 1977" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
  16. Les classement single
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  17. ^ "Elvis Presley – Wooden Heart (muss i denn...)". Singles Top 100.
  18. ^ "Sixties City - Pop Music Charts - Every Week Of The Sixties". Sixtiescity.net. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  19. ISBN 0668064595
    . Wooden Heart - Elvis's 31st million seller achieved a seven-figure sale in Europe alone ...
  20. Cash Box
    . March 4, 1961. p. 44. Retrieved June 26, 2023.
  21. ISSN 0006-2510
    . Retrieved June 26, 2023 – via Google Books.
  22. ^
    ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  23. ^ "Cash Box Top 100 9/09/61". Cashboxmagazine.com. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  24. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1961/Top 100 Songs of 1961". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  25. ^ "Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1961". Tropicalglen.com. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  26. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Gus Backus – Wooden Heart (Muß i denn zum Städtele hinaus)" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts.

External links

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