Bobby Vee's Golden Greats Vol. 2

Bobby Vee's Golden Greats Vol. 2
Compilation album by Bobby Vee
Released	November 1966
Recorded	1963–1965
Genre	Pop
Length	29:38
Label	Liberty
Producer	Snuff Garrett
Bobby Vee chronology
Look at Me Girl (1966) Bobby Vee's Golden Greats Vol. 2 (1966) Come Back When You Grow Up (1967)

Bobby Vee's Golden Greats Vol. 2 is a compilation album by American singer Bobby Vee that was released in November 1966 by Liberty Records. ^[1] It was Vee's second greatest hits compilation on the Liberty label. ^{[2] [ self-published source ]}

The compilation album featured Vee's two top 20 hit singles - "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" and "Charms" - together with a range of lesser hits tracks from earlier releases and one new recent hit, "A Girl I Used to Know". ^{[3] [ self-published source ]} the single from the album, "A Girl I Used to Know" bubbled under Billboard's Hot 100, on February 26, 1966, at number 133 during its 2-weeks stay ^[4]

The album was released on compact disc by Beat Goes On on October 28, 2003, as tracks 13 through 24 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 1 through 12 consisting of Vee's 1962 compilation album, Bobby Vee's Golden Greats . ^[5]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[6]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[7]
Billboard	[8]

Bruce Eder of AllMusic said that the album "even the more recent contents of this album come across as dated. Ironically, Vee's albums of the period captured him pursuing a much more contemporary sound -- very effectively, one might add -- than that represented by most of the dozen recordings included here, and they're generally a much better place to start than this collection, in terms of understanding Vee or the full range of his talent." ^[6]

Honolulu Star-Advertiser noted "While this will delight the Vee fans, it lacks the true hit luster as in the first volume", although pointing out "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" and "I'll Make You Mine" as highlights. ^[9]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Charms"	Helen Miller, Howard Greenfield	2:23
2.	"Cross My Heart"	Sonny Curtis	2:08
3.	"The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"	Ben Weisman, Dorothy Wayne, Marilyn Garrett	2:34
4.	"I'll Make You Mine"	Robert Thomas Velline	2:22
5.	"Never Love a Robin"	Artie Resnick, Mickey Gentile	2:41
6.	"Armen's Theme"	Ross Bagdasarian	2:16

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Ev'ry Little Bit Hurts"	Thomas Lesslie Garrett	2:37
2.	"Hickory, Dick and Doc"	DeWayne Blackwell	2:27
3.	"Keep On Trying"	Van McCoy	2:35
4.	"A Girl I Used to Know"	Jack Clement	2:36
5.	"Pretend You Don't See Her"	Steve Allen	2:18
6.	"Be True to Yourself"	Burt Bacharach, Hal David	2:03

Charts

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Peak
1966	"A Girl I Used to Know"	US Billboard Hot 100 [4]	133

Billboard & UK singles chart positions for previously Singles

Song	US chart debut	Hot 100 [10]	Easy Listening	U.S. Cashbox [11]	UK chart debut	UK singles chart [12]
"The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"	December 8, 1962	3	2	4	February 13, 1963	3
"Charms"	March 30, 1963	13	5	15	–	–
"Be True to Yourself"	June 22, 1963	34	–	36	–	–
"Yesterday and You"	November 9, 1963	55	–	53	–	–
"Never Love a Robin"	December 28, 1963	99	–	101	–	–
"I'll Make You Mine"	February 22, 1964	52	–	54	–	–
"Hickory, Dick and Doc"	May 30, 1964	63	–	81	–	–
"Pretend You Don't See Her"	December 5, 1964	97	–	80	–	–
"Every Little Bit Hurts"	December 12, 1964	84	–	89	–	–
"Cross My Heart"	February 6, 1965	99	–	102	–	–
"Keep On Trying"	May 8, 1965	85	–	84	–	–

References

1. "FOR ENTERTAINMENT: TAKE THE LIBERTY: FALL 1966 RELEASE". Cash Box . Vol. 28, no. 4. August 27, 1966. p. 17.
2. Reynolds, Robert (2016). The Music of Bobby Vee. Lulu.com. p. 102. ISBN   9781365060328.
3. Reynolds, Robert (2016). The Music of Bobby Vee. Lulu.com. p. 83. ISBN   9781365060328.
4. Whitburn, Joel (1982). Joel Whitburn's Bubbling under the hot 100, 1959-1981. Menomonee Falls, Wis: Record Research. p. 174. ISBN   978-0-8982-0047-8.
5. "Golden Greats/Golden Greats, Vol. 2". allmusic.com. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
6. Eder, Bruce. "Bobby Vee – Bobby Vee's Golden Greats, Vol. 2: Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2024-09-16.
7. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1446. ISBN   9781846098567 . Retrieved 22 August 2024.
8. "Pop Spotlight & Special Merit Picks: Bobby Vee's Golden Greats Vol. 2". Billboard . September 3, 1966. p. 44.
9. "Honolulu Star-Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii". Honolulu Star-Advertiser . 1966-08-28. Retrieved 2024-09-17– via Newspapers.com.
10. Whitburn, Joel (2002). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles: 1955-2002. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. p. 742. ISBN   0898-2-0155-1.
11. Downey, Pat (1994). Cash box pop singles charts, 1950-1993. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited. pp. 362–363. ISBN   1-56308-316-7.
12. "BOBBY VEE". Official Charts. 1961-01-25. Retrieved 2023-12-29.