Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites

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Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites
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Studio album by
Bobby Vee
ReleasedMay 1960
Genre Rock and Roll
Length30:25
Label Liberty
Producer Snuff Garrett
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Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites is the debut album by American Singer Bobby Vee, released in May 1960 by Liberty Records. [2]

Contents

it features his 1st big hit Devil or Angel, and a mirror hit "Since I Met You Baby", They peaked at Nos. 6, and 81, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the United States. [3]

it contiains a dozen balleds, consisting of old standards and "newer" love songs. [4] it provides a good look at popular ballads during that period and what fans could expect from him on future recordings [4]

The album was released on compact disc for the first time by Beat Goes On in 1999 as tracks 1 through 12 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 12 through 24 consisting of the other album being Vee's Other Album from February 1961, Bobby Vee. [5]

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. [6]

Critical reception

Billboard described it as "Liberty's remarkable young singer and rising star -- currently smashings with "Devil or Angel", records an album of the biggest pop hits of recent years. including "Devil or Angel", "Young Love", "Gone", etc". [7]

Cashbox praised [Vee] for his "performs here in his initial LP are the proven hits from the recent past, and The arrangements and vocal stylings are replicas of the tunes’ original hit sounds. [8]

Valley Times called it, an oscillating voice which grows upon the listener. [9]

Valley News noted that, "These might not be your all-time favorites, but teen listeners ougl't to enjoy his stylings of such tunes." [10]

Track listing

Side one

Side two

Charts

Singles [11] [12]
YearSingleChartPeak positions
1960"Devil or Angel"US Billboard Hot 100 [3] 6
US Cashbox [13] 4
US Billboard R&B 22
Canada CHUM 2
"Since I Met You Baby"US Billboard Hot 100 [3] 81

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References

  1. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1446. ISBN   9781846098567 . Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  2. ↑ Bobby Vee, Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites. Discogs.com, Retrieved December 21, 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 Whitburn, Joel (2002). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles: 1955-2002. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. p. 742. ISBN   0898-2-0155-1.
  4. 1 2 Reynolds, Robert (2016-04-13). The Music Of Bobby Vee. Lulu.com. p. 94. ISBN   9781365054129.
  5. ↑ "Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites/Bobby Vee". allmusic.com. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  6. ↑ "Eight Classic Albums Plus Bonus Singles". allmusic.com. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  7. ↑ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1960-09-26. p. 37.
  8. ↑ "Album Reviews". Cash Box . Vol. 22, no. 5. October 29, 1960. p. 42.
  9. ↑ "Valley Times 23 Nov 1960, page 5". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  10. ↑ "Valley News 21 Oct 1960, page Page 37". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  11. ↑ Bobby Vee Single Releases. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
  12. ↑ Bobby Vee Charting Singles. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
  13. ↑ Downey, Pat (1994). Cash box pop singles charts, 1950-1993. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited. pp. 362–363. ISBN   1-56308-316-7.
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