That's All You Gotta Do

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"That's All You Gotta Do"
Single by Brenda Lee
from the album Brenda Lee
B-side "I'm Sorry"
Released 30 May 1960
Recorded27 March 1960
Genre Rockabilly
Length2:27
Label Decca Records 31093
Songwriter(s) Jerry Reed
Producer(s) Owen Bradley
Brenda Lee singles chronology
"Sweet Nothin's"
(1959)
"That's All You Gotta Do"
(1960)
"I Want to Be Wanted"
(1960)

"That's All You Gotta Do" is a song written by Jerry Reed and performed by Brenda Lee. [1] The song reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #19 on the R&B chart in 1960. [2] The song also reached #6 in Australia. The song was featured on her 1960 album, Brenda Lee . [3]

Jerry Reed American recording artist; country music singer, actor

Jerry Reed Hubbard was an American country music singer, guitarist, composer, and songwriter, as well as an actor who appeared in more than a dozen films. His signature songs included "Guitar Man", "U.S. Male", "A Thing Called Love", "Alabama Wild Man", "Amos Moses", "When You're Hot, You're Hot", "Ko-Ko Joe", "Lord, Mr. Ford", "East Bound and Down", "The Bird", and "She Got the Goldmine ".

Brenda Lee American singer and recording artist

Brenda Lee is an American performer and the top-charting solo female vocalist of the 1960s. She sang rockabilly, pop and country music, and had 47 US chart hits during the 1960s, and is ranked fourth in that decade surpassed only by Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Ray Charles. She is known for her 1960 hit "I'm Sorry", and 1958's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", which has become a Christmas standard.

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The song was ranked #71 on Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1960. [4]

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References

  1. Brenda Lee, "That's All You Gotta Do" single release Retrieved May 5, 2014
  2. Brenda Lee, "That's All You Gotta Do" Chart Positions Retrieved May 5, 2014
  3. Brenda Lee, Brenda Lee Retrieved May 5, 2014
  4. "Billboard Top 100 - 1960". Archived from the original on January 2, 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2014.