Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites Explained

Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites
Type:studio
Artist:Bobby Vee
Cover:Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites.JPG
Released:May 1960
Genre:Rock and Roll
Length:30:25
Label:Liberty
Producer:Snuff Garrett
Year:1960
Next Title:Bobby Vee
Next Year:1961
Chronology:Bobby Vee

Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites is the debut album by American Singer Bobby Vee, released in May 1960 by Liberty Records.[1]

it features his 1st big hit Devil or Angel, and a mirror hit "Since I Met You Baby", They peaked at Nos. 6, and 81, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the United States.

it contiains a dozen balleds, consisting of old standars and "newer" love songs.[2] it provides a good look at popular ballads during that period and what fans could expect from him on future recordings

Critical reception

Billboard described it as "Liberty's remarkable young singer and rising star -- currently smashings with "Devil or Angel", records an album of the biggest pop hits of recent years. including "Devil or Angel", "Young Love", "Gone", etc".[3]

Cashbox praised [Vee] for his "performs here in his initial LP are the proven hits from the recent past, and The arrangements and vocal stylings are replicas of the tunes’ original hit sounds.[4]

Valley Times called it, an oscillating voice which grows upon the listener.[5]

Valley News noted that, "These might not be your all-time favorites, but teen listeners ougl't to enjoy his stylings of such tunes."[6]

Track listing

Side two

Charts

Singles[7] [8]
YearSingleChartPeak positions
1960"Devil or Angel"US Billboard Hot 1006
US Cashbox4
US Billboard R&B22
Canada CHUM2
"Since I Met You Baby"US Billboard Hot 10081

References

  1. https://www.discogs.com/release/5773381-Bobby-Vee-Bobby-Vee-Sings-Your-Favorites Bobby Vee, Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites
  2. Book: Reynolds, Robert . The Music Of Bobby Vee . 2016-04-13 . . 9781365054129 . 94.
  3. Book: Billboard . 1960-09-26 . Nielsen Business Media, Inc. . 37 . en.
  4. October 29, 1960 . Album Reviews . . 42 . 22 . 5.
  5. Web site: Valley Times 23 Nov 1960, page 5 . 2023-12-30 . Newspapers.com . en.
  6. Web site: Valley News 21 Oct 1960, page Page 37 . 2023-12-30 . Newspapers.com . en.
  7. https://www.45cat.com/artist/bobby-vee Bobby Vee Single Releases
  8. https://musicvf.com/Bobby+Vee.art Bobby Vee Charting Singles