"Save Your Heart for Me"
Single by Gary Lewis & the Playboys
from the album A Session with Gary Lewis and the Playboys
B-side"Without a Word of Warning"
ReleasedJune 1965
GenrePop
Length1:56
LabelLiberty
Songwriter(s)Gary Geld, Peter Udell
Producer(s)Snuff Garrett
Gary Lewis & the Playboys singles chronology
"Count Me In"
(1965)		 "Save Your Heart for Me"
(1965)		 "Everybody Loves a Clown"
(1965)

"Save Your Heart for Me" is a song written by Gary Geld and Peter Udell. The song was originally written for and recorded by singer Brian Hyland in 1963. Although not released as a single in its own right, it was included as the B-side to Hyland's song, "I'm Afraid to Go Home," and appeared on Hyland's 1994 greatest hits album.[1]

"Save Your Heart for Me" is best known in a version recorded in 1965 by American pop group Gary Lewis & the Playboys and appears on the group's 1965 album A Session with Gary Lewis and the Playboys. Lewis and his band released their version as a single in June 1965, and it peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the week of August 21, 1965, behind "I Got You Babe" by Sonny & Cher[2] It went to number one on the Billboard easy listening chart for three weeks in August 1965.[3] The song was covered by Livingston Taylor in 1993 on his album Good Friends.

Lewis credited the success of the record to both producer Snuff Garrett and to the short length of the song. Since it was less than two minutes duration, Lewis has stated that "(I)t was played everywhere. Deejays loved it."[3]

This song is noted for Lewis's whistling, which is heard in the instrumental introduction, as well as in the brief instrumental portion, before Lewis concludes the song.

Chart history

See also

References

  1. ↑ The Billboard Book of #2 Singles GoogleBooks.com. Retrieved 22 May 2009.
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  3. 1 2 Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications), p. 36.
  4. ↑ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1965-08-16. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
  5. ↑ Flavour of New Zealand, 14 October 1965
  6. ↑ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  7. ↑ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, August 21, 1965
  8. ↑ Musicoutfitters.com
  9. ↑ Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 25, 1965


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