Released in the United States in 1965 as a single with the 1960 recording from the film G.I. Blues, "Wooden Heart", on the B-side, "Puppet on a String" reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of December 25, 1965, where it would stay for two weeks.Billboard, December 25, 1965. (The other single from the same movie, "Do the Clam", was released earlier in the same year and reached number 21.) The single peaked at number 15 on the Record World chart and number 16 on Cash Box Singles.
