You're the Reason I'm Living (album)

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You're the Reason I'm Living
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Studio album by
Bobby Darin
ReleasedFebruary 1963
Recorded1962–1963
Studio Capitol (Hollywood)
Genre Country
Length31:22
Label Capitol
Producer Nick Venet
Bobby Darin chronology
Oh! Look at Me Now
(1963)		You're the Reason I'm Living
(1963)		 It's You or No One
(1963)

You're the Reason I'm Living is a 1963 album by Bobby Darin. It contains Country and Western music, often with a big band twist, and features arrangements by Jimmie Haskell, Shorty Rogers and Gerald Wilson. The title track was a number three hit single.

Contents

The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated March 16, 1963, and remained on the chart for 15 weeks, peaking at number 43. [1] It also debuted on the Cashbox albums chart in the issue dated March 9, 1963, and remained on the chart for a total of 14 weeks, peaking at number 19. [2]

The album was built around the "You're the Reason I'm Living" single. This (along with the flip-side, Now You're Gone) was recorded on December 3, 1962. When the single became a bit hit, a decision was made to build an album of country songs around it. These new songs were recorded on January 13–15, 1963. It was the first time that Darin had consciously built an album around a hit single - Things and Other Things , featuring the hit "Things", had been simply a pick-up album of leftovers released to cash-in on the single success. The production and release of You're the Reason I'm Living album had a knock-on effect on Darin's intended release schedule. Earthy!, his album of folk songs from around the world, had been slated for release in February 1963 (and Darin had been promoting it on TV appearances), but was pushed back to July of that year. Who Can I Count On is notable for being a duet with Merry Clayton (aka Mary Clayton), and was her first professional recording.

The album was released on compact disc by EMI on December 28, 1999, as tracks 1 through 12 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 13 through 24 along with Darin's 1965 album, I Wanna Be Around. [3] The album was released on compact disc by Exemplar in 2002, along with Darin's 1963 album, 18 Yellow Roses . [4]

Reception

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

On release, Variety gave the album a positive review, saying "The Title Track" and the 11 another songs that accompany are extensions of that stirring sound". [7] BIllboard magazine called the album a "powerhouse package," [8] Cash Box gave the album a postive reviews, saying "he comes up with eleven other potent country favorites all delivered in his dis-tinctive wide-range style". [9] and TV Radio Mirror said in their review that "Bobby certainly did these tunes up right." [10]

Music critic Richie Unterberger called the release "a merely fair album that reflected a trend of the day. As on numerous Ray Charles country-pop cuts, the orchestration and backup vocals got a little overbearingly sappy sometimes. Swing jazz-like arrangements were applied to country material sometimes as well..." [5]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Sally Was a Good Old Girl" (Harlan Howard) – 2:35
  2. "Be Honest With Me" (Gene Autry, Fred Rose) – 2:25
  3. "Oh, Lonesome Me" (Don Gibson) – 3:04
  4. "(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle"(Hank Williams, Jimmie Davis) – 2:43
  5. "It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'" (Johnny Tillotson) – 2:19
  6. "You're the Reason I'm Living" (Bobby Darin) – 2:28

Side two

  1. "Please Help Me, I'm Falling" (Don Robertson, Hal Blair) – 2:46
  2. "Under Your Spell Again" (Buck Owens, Dusty Rhodes) – 2:51
  3. "Here I Am" (Glen Campbell, Marc Douglas) – 2:32
  4. "Who Can I Count On?" (Sammy Masters) (Duet with Merry Clayton) – 2:34
  5. "Now You're Gone" (Darin) – 2:14
  6. "Release Me (And Let Me Love You Again)" (Eddie Miller, Robert Yount, James Pebworth) – 2:51

Charts

Album

Chart (1963)Peak
position
U.S. Top LPs (Billboard) [1] 43
U.S. Cashbox [2] 19

Singles

YearTitleU.S. Hot 100

[11]

U.S. Cashbox

[12]

1963"You're the Reason I'm Living"35

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  2. 1 2 Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 90. ISBN   0-8108-2005-6.
  3. ↑ "You're the Reason I'm Living/I Wanna Be Around". AllMusic. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  4. ↑ "You're the Reason I'm Living/18 Yellow Roses [Exemplar]". allmusic.com. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  5. 1 2 Unterberger, Richie. "You're the Reason I'm Living > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved February 2, 2015.
  6. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 394. ISBN   9781846098567 . Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  7. ↑ "Variety Album Reviews Day-Goulet's Annie, West Track, Darin's Living, Ives Burl Tops LPs: You're the Reason I'm Living". Variety . Vol. 229, no. 13. February 20, 1963. p. 52.
  8. ↑ "Album Reviews". Billboard. February 23, 1963. p. 63.
  9. ↑ "Album Reviews". Cash Box . Vol. 24, no. 24. February 24, 1963. p. 22.
  10. ↑ "Your Monthly On Record Guide". TV-Radio Mirror: 10. May 1963.
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