You Were Mine (The Fireflies song)

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"You Were Mine"
Single by The Fireflies
B-side "Stella Got a Fella"
ReleasedJune 1959
Recorded1959
Genre Doo-wop
Length1:52
Label Ribbon
Songwriter(s) Paul Giacalone
The Fireflies singles chronology
"The Crawl"
(1958)
"You Were Mine"
(1959)
"I Can't Say Goodbye"
(1959)

"You Were Mine" is a song written and recorded in 1959 by Paul Giacalone and performed by American doo-wop group The Fireflies.

"You Were Mine" was written by 19-year-old Giacalone about a girl he met while he was touring. [1] It spent 16 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, and peaked at #21 on October 26, 1959, [2] [3] while reaching #15 on Canada's CHUM Hit Parade. [4]

Charts

Chart (1959)Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 [5] 21

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References

  1. "Paul N. Giacalone". paulngiacalone.com. Retrieved 2015-09-26.
  2. Hot 100 - You Were Mine The Fireflies, Billboard.com. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  3. "The Billboard HOT 100", Billboard , October 26, 1959. p. 40. Accessed September 26, 2015
  4. "CHUM Hit Parade", CHUM , Week of November 09, 1959
  5. "Music: Top 100 Songs | Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard. October 26, 1959. Retrieved July 29, 2022.