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| Love Songs | ||||
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| Released | 2005 | |||
| Recorded | 1959-1964 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Label | RCA, Legacy | |||
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Love Songs is a 2005 compilation album containing the works of the American pop singer Neil Sedaka. It contains many of Sedaka's works from his years with RCA Victor from 1959-1964. Some of the tracks on the CD had never before been released. "Love Songs" was jointly issued by RCA and Legacy Records.
An asterisk indicates a recording that had not been released before 2005.
Neil Sedaka is an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Since his music career began in 1957, he has sold millions of records worldwide and has written or co-written over 500 songs for himself and other artists, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard "Howie" Greenfield and Phil Cody.
An answer song, response song or answer record, is a song made in answer to a previous song, normally by another artist. The concept became widespread in blues and R&B recorded music in the 1930s to the 1950s. Answer songs were also extremely popular in country music in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, sometimes as female responses to an original hit by a male artist or male responses to a hit by a female artist.
Thomas Adrian Sands is an American pop music singer and actor. Working in show business as a child, Sands became an overnight sensation and instant teen idol when he appeared on Kraft Television Theater in January 1957 as "The Singin' Idol". The song from the show, "Teen-Age Crush", reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on Cashbox.
Howard Greenfield was an American lyricist and songwriter, who for several years in the 1960s worked out of the famous Brill Building. He is best known for his successful songwriting collaborations, including one with Neil Sedaka from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, and near-simultaneous songwriting partnerships with Jack Keller and Helen Miller throughout most of the 1960s.
Rock with Neil Sedaka or just Neil Sedaka is the first major solo album of Neil Sedaka released in 1959 after two 1958 albums under the titles Neil Sedaka and The Tokens and Neil Sedaka and The Tokens and Coins. The album was released by RCA Victor and was produced by Al Nevins. The album contains 12 songs, all of them co-written by Sedaka and his friend Howard Greenfield. Two of the songs became successful singles for Sedaka from the album, namely "The Diary", his debut single that was a hit, reaching No. 14 on the US Billboard charts, and "I Go Ape", a single that was relatively successful in the United States reaching No. 42, but did far better in the UK Singles Chart, making it up to No. 9 and his debut single in the United Kingdom.
Circulate is the second solo album of Neil Sedaka after his 1959 debut solo album Rock with Sedaka. Circulate was released in 1961 by RCA Victor and was produced by Al Nevins and Don Kirshner. Except for the title song "Circulate" and "I Found My World In You", the whole album contains covers of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s songs as interpreted by Sedaka. Two of the songs were re-issued as B-sides of other hits: "I Found My World In You" was the B-side of "Sweet Little You" later in 1961, and "Circulate" was the B-side of "Alice In Wonderland" in 1963. Sedaka later recorded Italian-language versions of "Smile" and "All the Way"
Neil Sedaka Sings His Greatest Hits is a 1963 compilation album of twelve of the most popular hits of Neil Sedaka's tenure with RCA Victor.
The following is a comprehensive discography of Neil Sedaka, the American singer.
The Many Sides Of Neil Sedaka is a 1978 compilation album released by RCA Victor Records containing the works of pop singer Neil Sedaka. The album contains some of Sedaka's lesser-known works in the period from 1958-1965, although three of the songs on the album were charting hits at the time of their original release.
Steppin' Out is a 1976 album containing the works of Neil Sedaka. In America it was the third and final album of a trilogy of albums issued by The Rocket Record Company. Outside America Steppin' Out was issued on the Polydor label. In 1998, the Varèse Sarabande label reissued Steppin' Out and included four bonus tracks.
Stairway to Heaven: The Best of Neil Sedaka is a 2004 compilation CD album containing the works of American pop star Neil Sedaka. The songs on this album come from the period of 1959-1964, when Sedaka was affiliated with RCA Victor records. This CD was issued by BMG Special Markets.
Neil Sedaka's Greatest Hits is a compilation album containing the works of the American pop singer Neil Sedaka. It was originally released in the UK and throughout Western Europe in 1980 on the RCA International label. It was issued again on CD ten years later in 1990. The album contains songs that Neil Sedaka recorded while with RCA Records from 1959 to 1963.
Neil Sedaka: 14 Knockouts is a West German-produced compilation album containing the works of American pop star Neil Sedaka. It was released in 1977 on the RCA International label.
Let's Go Steady Again is a compilation album containing the works of American pop singer Neil Sedaka. It was released in the US in 1976 on the RCA Victor label. It contains some of Sedaka's lesser-known hits that he recorded during his years with RCA from 1959-1966.
Sunny is a 1979 compilation album containing the works of American pop singer Neil Sedaka. It features some of Sedaka's works from 1958–1964, during his affiliation with the RCA studios. It was released in the UK and throughout Western Europe on the RCA Camden label.
Neil Sedaka: All Time Greatest Hits, Volume 2 is a compilation album containing the works of American pop singer Neil Sedaka. The songs featured are some of Sedaka's lesser-known songs from his days with RCA Victor from 1958–1966, songs that were not included on the 1988 album Neil Sedaka: All Time Greatest Hits. The album was released in 1991 by RCA Records.
Neil Sedaka: The '50s and '60s is a compilation album containing some of the works of the American rock-and-pop singer Neil Sedaka. It features some songs he recorded during the period from 1959 to 1966, when he was under contract to RCA Victor Records. The album was released in 1977 on the RCA Victor label.
The Very Best of Neil Sedaka is a 2001 compilation album issued by RCA Records as part of their commemorative "100th Anniversary" series of albums celebrating their biggest stars. The album features some of Sedaka's best-known hits during his days with RCA, recorded from 1958 to 1963.
Oh! Carol and Other Big Hits is a 1975 compilation album containing the works of American pop singer Neil Sedaka. The album contains his recordings from the period 1959-1964, when he was affiliated with RCA Records. It is a blend of his rock hits with a few pop standards he recorded for the Circulate album in 1961. It was originally released on LP by RCA in 1975, and was reissued as a CD in 1989.
My Yiddishe Momme: Neil Sedaka at Chequers is a 1966 Australian compilation album containing the works of American pop singer Neil Sedaka. Eight of the songs on this album had been previously released earlier in Sedaka's career, but it included four new recordings produced in RCA's Australian studios in Sydney, Australia, following a concert Sedaka had given at Sydney's famous Chequers nightclub. It was released on RCA's Australian label.