This article is about the 1960 song. For the 2010 Listener album, see Wooden Heart (album).
"Wooden Heart"
Picture sleeve for one of 1961 German singles
Single by Elvis Presley
from the album 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)
Recorded
28 April 1960
Genre
Pop
folk
Length
2:03
Label
RCA
Songwriter(s)
Fred Wise, Ben Weisman, Kay Twomey, Bert Kaempfert[1]
Producer(s)
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"
Released
June 1961
Genre
Pop
Length
2:01
Label
Smash
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 Elvis Presley. The composition is based on a German folk song "Muss i denn" (lit. Must I then) and it was featured in the 1960 Elvis Presley film G.I. Blues. The song was a hit single for Presley in the UK Singles Chart, reaching No. 1 for six weeks in March and April 1961.[1][2]
^ abcRice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 56. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
^Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 122–3. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
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