Wooden Heart

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"Wooden Heart"
Muss i denn muss i denn Wooden Heart by Elvis Presley German single.png
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)
Recorded28 April 1960
Genre
Length2:03
Label RCA
Songwriter(s) Fred Wise, Ben Weisman, Kay Twomey, Bert Kaempfert [1]
Producer(s) Steve Sholes [1]
Elvis Presley USAsingles chronology
"Ask Me"
(1964)		"Wooden Heart"
(1964)		"Do the Clam"
(1965)
Elvis Presley UKsingles chronology
"Are You Lonesome Tonight?"
(1960)		"Wooden Heart"
(1961)		"Surrender"
(1961)

Sales

Sales for Wooden Heart
RegionSales
Europe1,000,000 [19]
Germany600,000 [20]
Netherlands90,000 [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

Other versions

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