Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites

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Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites
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Studio album by
Bobby Vee
ReleasedSeptember 1960
Genre Rock and roll
Length30:25
Label Liberty
Producer Snuff Garrett
Bobby Vee chronology
Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites
(1960)		 Bobby Vee
(1961)
Singles from Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites
  1. "Devil or Angel"
    Released: June 21, 1960

Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites is the debut album by American singer Bobby Vee, released in September 1960 by Liberty Records. It features his first 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. [1]

Contents

It contains a dozen ballads, consisting of old standards and newer love songs and providing a good look at popular ballads during that period. [2]

The album was released on compact disc 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 Vee's 1961 album, Bobby Vee . [3] 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. [4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Billboard Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Disc Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]

At the time of the album's release, and giving it four stars to indicate "very strong sales potential", Billboard states that Vee "has a good, sincere ballad style and he shows it off in good form here." [6] Cashbox notes that the songs Vee "performs here in his initial LP are the proven hits from the recent past" and his "vocal stylings are replicas of the tunes' original hit sounds". [8]

The Valley Times believes Vee has "an oscillating voice which grows upon the listener." [9] While the Valley News wrote, "These might not be your all-time favorites, but teen listeners ought to enjoy [Vee's vocal] stylings". [10]

Ken Graham of Disc magazine says the album is "not a great showing by any means, but a three-star award for its potential." [7]

Track listing

Side one

Side two

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Young Love" Ric Cartey, Carole Joyner2:47
2."My Prayer" Georges Boulanger, Carlos Gomez Barrera, Jimmy Kennedy 2:47
3."Sincerely" Harvey Fuqua, Alan Freed 2:39
4."Gone" Smokey Rogers 2:06
5."I'm Sorry"Dub Allbritten, Ronnie Self 2:26
6."Everyday" Buddy Holly, Norman Petty 2:07

Charts

Singles
YearSingleChartPeak positions
1960"Devil or Angel"US Billboard Hot 100 [1] 6
US Cashbox [11] 4
US Billboard R&B 22
Canada CHUM 2
"Since I Met You Baby"US Billboard Hot 100 [1] 81

References

  1. 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.
  2. ↑ Reynolds, Robert (April 13, 2016). The Music Of Bobby Vee. Lulu.com. p. 94. ISBN   9781365054129.
  3. ↑ "Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites/Bobby Vee". AllMusic. Retrieved September 16, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Eight Classic Albums Plus Bonus Singles". AllMusic. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
  5. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1446. ISBN   9781846098567 . Retrieved August 22, 2024.
  6. 1 2 "Reviews and Ratings of New Albums". Billboard . Vol. 72, no. 41. October 10, 1960. p. 40.
  7. 1 2 Graham, Ken (March 11, 1961). "LP's Reviewed by Ken Graham" (PDF). Disc . No. 155. p. 13. Retrieved April 19, 2025.
  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 December 30, 2023.
  10. ↑ "(unknown title)". Valley News. October 21, 1960. p. 37. Retrieved December 30, 2023– via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ 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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