"Run to Him" is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Jack Keller and performed by Bobby Vee featuring the Johnny Mann Singers.Bobby Vee, "Run to Him" single release Retrieved July 11, 2014 It was produced by Snuff Garrett,Bobby Vee, "Run to Him" single release Retrieved July 11, 2014 and was featured on Vee's 1962 album, Take Good Care of My Baby.Bobby Vee, Take Good Care of My Baby Retrieved July 11, 2014 One of the musicians on the song was session drummer Earl Palmer.Scherman, Tony, Backbeat: The Earl Palmer Story, foreword by Wynton Marsalis, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1999
Chart performance "Run to Him" reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100., only behind “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”, by The Tokens. It also reached No. 6 in Canada, and No. 6 in the UK in 1961.Bobby Vee, "Run to Him" Chart Positions Retrieved July 11, 2014
The single's B-side, "Walkin' with My Angel", reached No. 53 on the Billboard chart and No. 89 in Canada.Bobby Vee, "Walkin with My Angel" Chart Positions Retrieved July 11, 2014
Charts Chart (1961) PeakpositionCanada (CHUM Hit Parade)6
Other versions Ivo Robić, in Germany in April 1962 as part of an EP entitled Geh' Zu Ihm.Ivo Robić, "Geh' Zu Ihm" EP release Retrieved July 11, 2014 Little Eva re-titled the song "Run to Her" and made it the B-side to her single "Makin' with the Magilla" in October 1964.Little Eva, "Makin' with the Magilla" single release Retrieved July 11, 2014 Jimmy Tarbuck, as the B-side to his single "Lucky Jim" in March 1972.Jimmy Tarbuck, "Lucky Jim" single release Retrieved July 11, 2014 Donny Osmond, on his 1972 solo album Too Young. Beverly Bremers recorded it as "Run to Her" on a single in March 1973.Beverly Bremers, "Run to Her" single release Retrieved August 12, 2016. Susie Allanson, as a single entitled "Run to Her" in 1981 that reached No. 53 on the country chart. It was featured on her album Sleepless Nights.Susie Allanson, "Run to Her" single release Retrieved July 11, 2014 Labi Siffre, as a single in January 1981.Labi Siffre, "Run to Him" single release Retrieved July 11, 2014 Jennifer Warnes (as "Run to Her") on Best of Jennifer Warnes, 1981
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