A Bobby Vee Recording Session

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A Bobby Vee Recording Session
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Studio album by
Bobby Vee
ReleasedMay 1962
Genre Rock and roll
Length25:35
Label Liberty
Producer Snuff Garrett
Bobby Vee chronology
Take Good Care of My Baby
(1962)		A Bobby Vee Recording Session
(1962)		 Bobby Vee Meets the Crickets
(1962)
Singles from A Bobby Vee Recording Session
  1. "Please Don't Ask About Barbara/I Can't Say Goodbye"
    Released: February 2, 1962
  2. "Sharing You/In My Baby's Eyes"
    Released: April 27, 1962
  3. "A Forever Kind of Love/Remember Me, Huh?"
    Released: September, 1962
Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]

A Bobby Vee Recording Session is the sixth studio album American singer Bobby Vee, [3] and was released in May 1962 by Liberty Records. [3]

Contents

It contains the hit singles "Sharing You" and "Please Don't Ask About Barbara", plus "In My Baby's Eyes" and a couple singles contenders, "My Golden Chance", and another Crickets composition, "Teardrops Fall Like Rain". [4] "Sharing You" and "Please Don't Ask About Barbara" both peaked at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the United States, [5] and at numbers 29 and 10, respectively, in the United Kingdom. [6]

The album made its first appearance on Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated July 21 of that year and remained on the album chart for 6 weeks, peaking at #121. [7] It was more successful in The UK, where it spent for 11 weeks on the album chart there peaking at #10," [8] The album was released on compact disc for the first time by Beat Goes On on March 10, 1999 as tracks 13 through 24 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 1 through 12 consisting of Vee's 1962 album, Take Good Care of My Baby. [9]

Reel To Reel labels included this CD in a box set entitled Eight Classic Albums Plus Bonus Singles and was released on October 4, 2019. [10]

Reception

Bruce Eder of AllMusic said that "It's impossible to get too far past that thought, or the memory of Holly's "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" and "Raining in My Heart" in listening to this polished piece of teen idol pop/rock from Vee. He even does "Teardrops Fall Like Rain," a song written by and originally recorded by the post-Holly Crickets" [3]

Billboard selected the album for a "Spotlight Album" review, stating that it featured "the young artist, is in fresh, appealing vocal form on this collection of teen-appeal tunes, featuring many of his own and other' singles hit. Best sides are "You Better Move On", "Please Don't Ask About Barbara", "In My Baby's Eyes" and "My Golden Chance". [11]

Cashbox gave the album a postive review, saying "Vee dishes up polished arrangements of “What’s Your Name,” & his recent hit of “Please Don’t Ask About Barbara” [12]

Track listing

Side one

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."What's Your Name"Claude Johnson2:02
2."My Golden Chance" Dewayne Blackwell 2:29
3."You Better Move On" Arthur Alexander 2:39
4."Please Don't Ask About Barbara" Bill Buchanan, Jack Keller 2:01
5."Forget Me Not" Les Vandyke 1:47
6."Sharing You" Gerry Goffin, Carole King 2:03

Side two

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."In My Baby's Eyes" Gerry Goffin, Carole King 2:05
2."Tenderly Yours"D.W. Cobb2:05
3."I Can't Say Goodbye" Gerry Goffin, Carole King 2:05
4."Teardrops Fall Like Rain" Jerry Allison, Tommy Garrett, Glen Hardin 1:38
5."Guess Who" Jesse Belvin, Jo Ann Belvin2:40
6."A Forever Kind of Love" Gerry Goffin, Jack Keller 2:23

Chart positions

Chart (1962)Peak

position

Billboard 121
UK Albums Chart 10
Singles [13] [14]
YearSingleChartPeak

position

1962"Please Don't Ask About Barbara"Billboard Hot 100 [5] 15
UK Singles Chart [6] 28
Cashbox [15] 18
Canada

CHUM RPM

6
"I Can't Say Goodbye"Billboard Hot 100 [5] 92
Cashbox. [15] 90
"Sharing You"Billboard Hot 100 [5] 15
UK Singles Chart [6] 10
Cashbox [15] 20
"In My Baby's Eyes"Cashbox121
"A Forever Kind of Love"UK Singles Chart [6] 13


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References

  1. ↑ ""A Bobby Vee Recording Session" - Album Ratings". Allmusic. Retrieved 2023-12-23.
  2. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1446. ISBN   9781846098567 . Retrieved 22 August 2024.
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  4. ↑ Reynolds, Robert (2016-04-13). The Music Of Bobby Vee. Lulu.com. p. 94. ISBN   9781365054129.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Whitburn, Joel (2002). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles: 1955-2002. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. p. 742. ISBN   0898-2-0155-1.
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  7. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's top pop albums : 1955-1996 : compiled from Billboard magazine's pop album charts, 1955-1996. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. p. 814. ISBN   978-0-8982-0117-8.
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  10. ↑ "Eight Classic Albums Plus Bonus Singles". allmusic.com. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
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