Put Your Head On My Shoulder

Submission 17,706

About

Put Your Head On My Shoulder is a song by Canadian-American singer Paul Anka. After a video of a musician remixing the song went viral on Twitter, the video was remixed by other content creators who thought the viral remix was not impressive.

Origin

"Put Your Head On My Shoulder" was written by Paul Anka in 1958.^[1] The song reached number 2 on the Billboard top 100.

On February 3rd, 2017, Twitter user Anthony Florey aka @floreyyy posted a video of him remixing the song in real time, slowing the song down and adding his own beat.^[2] The tweet gained 44,000 retweets and 77,000 likes (YouTube embed shown below).

Spread

Shortly after the video was posted to Twitter, it was reposted to Tumblr. ^[8] According to Meme Documentation, this occurred around February 6th, 2017.^[3] On April 24th, 2017, Tumblr user crimewave420^[4] uploaded a video where he made fun of the original remix and created his own version featuring 808 drums. The post gained over 21,000 notes (YouTube embed shown below).

On November 24th, 2017, Tumblr user its-kyleen-bitchh^[5] reblogged the original Tumblr video with the caption "imagine slow dancing to this w the girl you love in your kitchen.. pure heaven". This started a comment thread where people began reacting negatively to the video. On December 1st, Tumblr user golfgalaxy^[6] reblogged the post with an image of a man holding his nose, indicating they thought the video stunk. The following day, Tumblr user ryangoslingofficial^[7] uploaded a remix of the video where the buttons pressed by Florey corresponded to fart sounds, gaining over 7,000 notes (shown below). Several other remixes appeared over the following several days. Meme Documentation covered the meme on December 3rd.