Tears on My Pillow
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{{Infobox Single
| Name = Tears on My Pillow
| Artist = [[Little Anthony & the Imperials]]
| Released = 1958
| Format = 7" single
| Genre = [[Doo wop]]
| Length = 2:19
| Label = [[End Records|End]]<br><small>1027 </small>
| Writer = Sylvester Bradford<br>Al Lewis
| Last single =
| This single = "Tears on My Pillow"<br />(1958)
| Next single = "The Glory of Love"<br />(1958)
}}
{{Infobox Single
| Name = Tears on My Pillow
| Cover = 1114 f.jpg
| Artist = [[Kylie Minogue]]
| Released = [[November 12]],[[1989]]
| Format = 12" single<br>7" single<br>CD single<br>Cassette single
| Genre = [[Ballad|Pop Ballad]]
| Length = 2:19
| Label = [[PWL]]
| Writer = Sylvester Bradford<br>[[Al Lewis]]
| Producer = [[Stock Aitken Waterman]]
| Last single = "[[Never Too Late (song)|Never Too Late]]"<br />(1989)
| This single = "Tears on My Pillow"<br />(1989)
| Next single = "[[Better the Devil You Know]]"<br />(1990)
}}
:''A different song entitled "Tears on My Pillow" was a #1 British hit for [[Johnny Nash]] in 1975. Another different song entitled "Tears on My Pillow" was co-written and performed by [[Gene Autry]] in 1941.''
{{for|the album of the same name by [[Johnny Tillotson]]|Tears on My Pillow (Johnny Tillotson album)}}
"'''Tears on My Pillow'''" is a [[doo wop]] song, written by Sylvester Bradford and Al Lewis in [[1958]] (see [[1958 in music]]). The composition was first recorded by [[Little Anthony & the Imperials]] on [[End Records]], and was that group's debut recording under that name. Although it remains one of the Imperials' [[signature song]]s, "Tears on My Pillow" has been extensively covered, including a number-one version by [[Kylie Minogue]] in [[1989]] (see [[1989 in music]]).
==Original version==
Early copies of the single were credited simply to "The Imperials", a group which had previously been known as "The Duponts" and "The Chesters". [[Brooklyn, New York]] [[deejay]] [[Alan Freed]] gave the group's lead singer, Anthony Gourdine, top billing while introducing the single over the air, and the moniker of "Little Anthony & the Imperials" stuck.
"Tears on My Pillow" was a #4 hit single in the [[United States]], with its [[b-side]], "Two People in the World", becoming a hit as well. Selling over a million copies, "Tears on My Pillow" was the most successful single of the Imperials' doo wop period. Its success would be matched only by the Imperials' 1965 single "Goin' Out of My Head".
==Covers==
A cover of "Tears on My Pillow" by [[Sha Na Na]] was featured on the [[soundtrack]] to ''[[Grease (film)|Grease]]''. In 1986, [[New Edition]] released a [[Motown]]-covers album ''Under the Blue Moon'' that included a cover of "Tears on My Pillow." In the [[New Edition]] version, Little Anthony Gourdine himself appeared as a guest vocalist.
"Tears on My Pillow" reached #1 in the [[United Kingdom]] when [[Australian]] singer [[Kylie Minogue]] released it as a single from her second album, ''[[Enjoy Yourself (Kylie Minogue album)|Enjoy Yourself]]''. The single was released in November 1989 in [[Australia]], and on [[January 8]], [[1990]] in [[Europe]]. Minogue's cover was also included on the soundtrack of the film ''[[The Delinquents (film)|The Delinquents]]'', which she also starred in. The song was the #1 single on the [[UK Singles Chart]] for one week in January 1990, and reached #35 in [[Canada]]. The B-side, "We Know the Meaning of Love", reached #1 in its own right in [[Sweden]].
"Tears on My Pillow" has also been covered by [[Chuck Jackson]], [[Bobby Vee]], [[Lou Christie]], [[Martha and the Vandellas]], [[Bobby Vinton]], [[Johnny Tillotson]], [[Neil Sedaka]], [[Reba McEntire]], [[Jodeci]], [[Clem Snide]], [[S Club 8]], [[Lorrie Morgan]], [[Derrick Morgan]] with Lyn Tait & The Jets, [[Neils Children]], and [http://www.discogs.com/release/1126200 The Parker Project].
==Charts (Kylie Minogue version)==
{| class="wikitable"
!align="left"|Chart (1990)
!align="left"|Peak<br />position
|-
|align="left"|Canadian Singles Chart
|align="center"|35
|-
|align="left"|Israel Singles Chart
|align="center"|1
|-
|align="left"|Eurochart Hot 100
|align="center"|2
|-
|align="left"|Slovania Singles Chart
|align="center"|1
|-
|align="left"|UK Singles Chart
|align="center"|1
|-
|align="left"|Ireland Singles Chart
|align="center"|2
|-
|align="left"|Sweden Singles Chart
|align="center"|3
|-
|align="left"|South Africa Singles Chart
|align="center"|10
|-
|align="left"|Dutch Singles Chart
|align="center"|19
|-
|align="left"|Australia Singles Chart
|align="center"|20
|-
|align="left"|Germany Singles Chart
|align="center"|31
|-
|align="left"|New Zealand Singles Chart
|align="center"|33
|-
|align="left"|Belgium Singles Chart
|align="center"|9
|-
|}
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{{succession box
| before = "[[Hangin' Tough (song)|Hangin' Tough]]" by [[New Kids on the Block]]
| title = [[List of number-one singles (UK)|UK number one single]] (Kylie Minogue version)
| years = [[January 21]] [[1990]]
| after = "[[Nothing Compares 2 U]]" by [[Sinéad O'Connor]]
}}
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[[Category:1958 singles]]
[[Category:1958 songs]]
[[Category:1989 singles]]
[[Category:1989 songs]]
[[Category:Pop ballads]]
[[Category:Kylie Minogue songs]]
[[Category:Number-one singles in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Number-one singles in New Zealand]]
[[Category:Doo-wop songs]]
[[Category:Doo-wop ballads]]
[[es:Tears On My Pillow]]