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"Operation Heartbreak"
Single by Aretha Franklin
A-side"Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody"
Released September 1961
Genre Soul
Length3:03
Label Columbia Records 42157
Songwriter(s) Al Kasha, Alan Thomas, Curtis Williams
Aretha Franklin singles chronology
"Are You Sure"
(1961)
"Operation Heartbreak"
(1961)
" I Surrender, Dear"
(1962)

"Operation Heartbreak" is a song written by Al Kasha, Alan Thomas, and Curtis Williams and performed by Aretha Franklin. The song reached #6 on the U.S. R&B chart in 1961. [1]

The song's A-side, " Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody", reached #37 on the Billboard Hot 100. [2]

Chart performance

Aretha Franklin

Chart Peak
position
U.S. R&B chart 6

References