"I Wanna Play House With You" is a 1951 song by

Eddy Arnold Richard Edward Arnold (May 15, 1918 – May 8, 2008) was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a Nashville sound (country/popular music) innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the ''Billboard'' cou ...

, written by

Cy Coben Seymour "Cy" Coben (4 April 1919 – 26 May 2006) was an American songwriter, whose hits were recorded by bandleaders, country singers, and other artists such as The Beatles, Tommy Cooper and Leonard Nimoy. Biography Early life Coben was born ...

. The song went to number one on the Country & Western Best Seller lists for six weeks and a total of twenty-four weeks on the chart. The B-side of "I Wanna Play House With You", entitled, "Something Old, Something New" (also a Coben composition) peaked at number seven on the same chart. The

Buddy Holly Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer and songwriter who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. He was born to a musical family in Lubbock, Texas ...

song "I Wanna Play House With You", although sometimes credited to Coben, is a different song, a version of the song "

Baby Let's Play House "Baby Let's Play House" is a song written by Arthur Gunter and recorded by him in 1954 on the Excello Records label and covered by Elvis Presley the following year on Sun Records. A line from the song ("I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than t ...

" by Arthur Gunther.

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1951 singles Eddy Arnold songs Songs written by Cy Coben {{1940s-country-song-stub