A Bobby Vee Recording Session Explained

A Bobby Vee Recording Session
Type:studio
Artist:Bobby Vee
Cover:A Bobby Vee Recording Session.JPG
Released:May 1962
Genre:Rock and roll
Length:25:35
Label:Liberty
Producer:Snuff Garrett
Prev Title:Take Good Care of My Baby
Prev Year:1962
Year:1962
Next Title:Bobby Vee Meets the Crickets
Next Year:1962
Chronology:Bobby Vee

A Bobby Vee Recording Session is the sixth studio album American singer Bobby Vee, and was released in May 1962 by Liberty Records.[1]

It contains the hit singles "Sharing You" and "Please Don't Ask About Barbara", plus "In My Baby's Eyes" and a couple singles contenders, "My Golden Chance", and another Crickets composition, "Teardrops Fall Like Rain".[2] "Sharing You" and "Please Don't Ask About Barbara" both peaked at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the United States, and at numbers 29 and 10, respectively, in the United Kingdom.

The album made its first appearance on Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated July 21 of that year and remained on the album chart for 6 weeks, peaking at #121.[3]

Reception

Bruce Eder of AllMusic said that "It's impossible to get too far past that thought, or the memory of Holly's "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" and "Raining in My Heart" in listening to this polished piece of teen idol pop/rock from Vee. He even does "Teardrops Fall Like Rain," a song written by and originally recorded by the post-Holly Crickets"[4]

Billboard selected the album for a "Spotlight Album" review, stating that it featured "the young artist, is in fresh, appealing vocal form on this collection of teen-appeal tunes, featuring many of his own and other' singles hit. Best sides are "You Better Move On", "Pleases Don't Ask About Barbara", "In My Baby's Eyes" and "My Golden Chance".[5]

Track listing

Side two

Chart positions

Singles[6] [7]
YearSingleChartPeakposition
1962"Please Don't Ask About Barbara"Billboard Hot 10015
UK Singles Chart28
Cashbox18
CanadaCHUM

RPM

6
"I Can't Say Goodbye"Billboard Hot 10092
Cashbox90
"Sharing You"Billboard Hot 10015
UK Singles Chart10
Cashbox20
"In My Baby's Eyes"Cashbox121
"A Forever Kind of Love"UK Singles Chart13

Notes and References

  1. https://www.discogs.com/release/2754220-Bobby-Vee-A-Bobby-Vee-Recording-Session Bobby Vee, A Bobby Vee Recording Session
  2. Book: Reynolds, Robert . The Music Of Bobby Vee . 2016-04-13 . . 9781365054129 . 94.
  3. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn's top pop albums : 1955-1996 : compiled from Billboard magazine's pop album charts, 1955-1996 . 1996 . Record Research . 978-0-8982-0117-8 . Menomonee Falls, Wis. . 814.
  4. Web site: "A Bobby Vee Recording Session" - Album Review . 2023-12-23 . AllMusic.
  5. Book: Billboard . 1962-05-26 . Nielsen Business Media, Inc. . 22 . en.
  6. https://www.45cat.com/artist/bobby-vee Bobby Vee Single Releases
  7. https://musicvf.com/Bobby+Vee.art Bobby Vee Charting Singles