Take Good Care of My Baby (Bobby Vee album)

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Take Good Care of My Baby
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Studio album by
Released1962
Genre
Length27:37
Label Liberty
Producer Snuff Garrett
Bobby Vee chronology
Bobby Vee Sings Hits of the Rockin' 50's
(1961)
Take Good Care of My Baby
(1962)
A Bobby Vee Recording Session
(1962)
Singles from Take Good Care of My Baby
  1. "Take Good Care of My Baby"
    Released: July 20, 1961
  2. "Run to Him"
    Released: October 27, 1961

Take Good Care of My Baby is the fifth studio album American singer Bobby Vee, [1] and was released in 1962 by Liberty Records. [1]

Contents

It contains Vee's best-known hits "Take Good Care of My Baby", "Run to Him", and "Walkin' with My Angel".

The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated February 3, 1962, remaining on the chart for 14 weeks and peaking at No. 91. [2] It entered the UK album chart in February 1962 and spent one week at number seven over the course of 8 weeks" [3] No. 29 on the Cashbox albums chart. [4]

The album was released on compact disc by Beat Goes On on March 10, 1999, as tracks 1 through 12 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 13 through 24 consisting of Vee's 1962 album, A Bobby Vee Recording Session . [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]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Billboard described the album as "His Biggest LP Ever" [9]

Cashbox praised Vee for his "delivers other favorites with exceptional poise and artistry. [10]

The St. Petersburg Times wrote that "Youthful, personable Bobby Vee includes some of the numbers that have been smash singles". [11]

Robert Reynolds, in The Music of Bobby Vee called it "his strongest album". [12]

Track listing

Side one

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Take Good Care of My Baby" Gerry Goffin, Carole King 2:27
2."Will You Love Me Tomorrow"Goffin, King2:49
3."Remember Me, Huh" Billy Page 2:39
4."He Will Break Your Heart" Jerry Butler, Calvin Carter, Curtis Mayfield 2:34
5."Who Am I?" Les Vandyke 1:58
6."Run to Him"Goffin, Jack Keller 2:09

Side two

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Walkin' with My Angel"Goffin, King2:14
2."Raining in My Heart" Felice Bryant 2:51
3."Go On" Roy Orbison, Joe Melson 2:20
4."Little Flame" Beverly Ross 1:56
5."So You're in Love" Jerry Allison, Sonny Curtis 2:11
6."Hark, Is That a Cannon I Hear" Jackie DeShannon, Zelda Sands1:55

Singles

"Take Good Care of My Baby" made its debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on August 7, 1961, eventually spending three weeks at number one during its 15-week stay, [13] number one on the Cash Box singles chart, [14] and number 3 in the UK Singles. [15] "Run to Him" made its debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on November 13, 1961, eventually spending one week at number two during its 15-week stay, [13] number one on the Cash Box singles chart, [14] and number 4 in the UK Singles. [15] "Walkin' with My Angel" made its debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on November 27, 1961, eventually spending one week at number fifty-three during its 9-week stay [13] and number eighty-nine on the Cash Box singles chart. [14]

Charts

Chart (1962)Peak
position
US Billboard Top LPs 91
US Cash Box 29
UK Albums Chart 7
Singles [16] [17]
YearSingleChartPeak
1961"Take Good Care of My Baby"US Billboard Hot 1001
UK Singles Chart 3
US Cash Box1
Canada CHUM 1
"Run to Him"US Billboard Hot 1002
US Cash Box6
Canada CHUM6
UK Singles Chart4
"Walkin' with My Angel"US Billboard Hot 10053
US Cash Box89
Canada CHUM5

References

  1. 1 2 Take Good Care of My Baby - Bobby Vee | Album | AllMusic , retrieved 2024-09-19
  2. Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums: 1955-1996. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. p. 814. ISBN   978-0-8982-0117-8.
  3. "BOBBY VEE". Official Charts. 1962-02-24. Retrieved 2024-09-07.
  4. Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 388. ISBN   0-8108-2005-6.
  5. "Take Good Care of My Baby/A Bobby Vee Recording Session". allmusic.com. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  6. "Eight Classic Albums Plus Bonus Singles". allmusic.com. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  7. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1446. ISBN   9781846098567 . Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  8. Hunter, Nigel (February 24, 1962). "LPs by Nigel Hunter: This great trio deserves to be heard" (PDF). Disc . No. 205. p. 10. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  9. "Vee + Ventures + Volume!: Take Good Care of My Baby". Billboard . November 27, 1961. p. 23.
  10. "Album Popular Pick Reviews: Take Good Care of My Baby". Cash Box . Vol. 23, no. 11. December 9, 1961. p. 20.
  11. "Bobby Vee Single Hits Packaged Into Album". St. Petersburg Times. February 10, 1962.
  12. Reynolds, Robert (2016-04-13). The Music Of Bobby Vee. Lulu.com. p. 95. ISBN   9781365054129.
  13. 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.
  14. 1 2 3 Downey, Pat (1994). Cash box pop singles charts, 1950-1993. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited. pp. 362–363. ISBN   1-56308-316-7.
  15. 1 2 "BOBBY VEE". Official Charts. 1961-01-25. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
  16. Bobby Vee Single Releases. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
  17. Bobby Vee Charting Singles. Retrieved April 22, 2023.