"You Were Mine"
Single by The Fireflies
B-side"Stella Got a Fella"
ReleasedJune 1959
Recorded1959
GenreDoo-wop
Length1:52
LabelRibbon
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

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.


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