Puppy Love (Paul Anka song)

"Puppy Love"
Single by Paul Anka
from the album Paul Anka Sings His Big 15
B-side	"Adam & Eve"
Released	February 13, 1960
Format	Vinyl single, 12", cassette single
Recorded	1960
Genre	Pop
Length	2:45
Label	ABC-Paramount
Songwriter(s)	Paul Anka
Producer(s)	Sid Feller
Paul Anka singles chronology
"It's Time To Cry" (1959) "Puppy Love" (1960) "My Home Town" (1960)
"It's Time To Cry" (1959) "Puppy Love" (1960) "My Home Town" (1960)

"Puppy Love" is a popular song written by Paul Anka in 1960 for Annette Funicello, whom he was dating at the time.^[1] Anka's version reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 behind Percy Faith's "Theme from A Summer Place"^[2] and #33 on the UK Singles Chart.^[3]

Donny Osmond version

"Puppy Love"
Single by Donny Osmond
from the album Portrait of Donny
B-side	"Let My People Go"
Released	February 19, 1972
Recorded	September 20, 1971
Genre	Pop
Length	3:05
Songwriter(s)	Paul Anka
Producer(s)	Mike Curb Don Costa[4]
Donny Osmond singles chronology
"Hey Girl" (1971) "Puppy Love" (1972) "Too Young" (1972)
"Hey Girl" (1971) "Puppy Love" (1972) "Too Young" (1972)

Twelve years later the song was revived by Donny Osmond. It was released on February 19, 1972, and reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 on April 1, 1972. It peaked at #1 in April 1972 on both the Canadian RPM singles chart for three weeks and the UK Singles Chart for five weeks the following July.^[5] Billboard ranked this version as the #67 song for 1972.^[6] The song was also covered by British pop group S Club Juniors in 2002. It was certified Gold by the RIAA on March 24, 1972.

On March 15, 1972, DJ Robert W. Morgan played the Donny Osmond version for 90 minutes straight on KHJ in Los Angeles. After receiving numerous calls from listeners, LAPD raided the station studios. Confused, the officers left without making any arrests.^[7]

In popular culture

• The song is referenced in the 1962 Academy Award nominated animated short Disney musical film A Symposium on Popular Songs with the song "Puppy Love Is Here to Stay." It was written by Robert & Richard Sherman who also wrote many of Annette Funicello's biggest selling hits. Disney also used the song in the 1987 TV special "DTV Doggone Valentine" set to clips from 101 Dalmatians.
• The song is used in the 2008 Wallace & Gromit short, A Matter of Loaf and Death.
• The song was covered by teen pop singer Myra from the Disney film soundtrack 102 Dalmatians in 2001.
• The song was also covered by Lado Leskovar in 1963, Bebi Dol in 2006, Damian McGinty in 2007 and Amy Winehouse in 2009.
• The song can also be heard in the 2005 family/comedy film, Son of the Mask. Long after being ignored and then yelled at by his own master Tim Avery (as shown in a deleted scene of the film), Jack Russell Terrier dog Otis puts on the mask he found in a river (made by Loki the god of Mischief) and plays the song "Puppy Love" for his girlfriend named Venus.
• The song can also be heard briefly during a scene in Zombieland with Woody Harrelson in a flashback scene.
• The song also plays in the film Man's Best Friend in the scene where Max the dog mates with a collie and the song also plays during the film's closing credits.
• The song plays in an episode of The Simpsons over a montage of the romance between Agnes Skinner and Comic Book Guy.

Other cover versions

References

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics