"My Dad" is a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and performed by Paul Petersen. It reached #2 on the adult contemporary chart, #6 on the U.S. pop chart, and #19 on the U.S. R&B chart in 1963. It was featured on his 1963 album, My Dad. In Canada the song reached #5 in December 1962. On the New Zealand lever hit parade chart it reached #7https://web.archive.org/web/20210208152548/http://www.flavourofnz.co.nz/index.php?qpageID=Lever%20hit%20parades&qyear=1963&qmonth=Feb&qweek=07-Feb-1963#n_view_location
The song was arranged by Jimmie Haskell and Stu Phillips and produced by Phillips.
Other versions Davy Jones released a version of the song on his 1965 album David Jones.
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