Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang! Explained

Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang!
Type:	studio
Artist:	Brenda Lee
Cover:	Brenda Lee-Grandma What Great Songs.jpg
Released:	August 3, 1959
Recorded:	January 4–26, 1959
Studio:	Bradley Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Length:	27:46
Label:	Decca
Producer:	Owen Bradley
Next Title:	Brenda Lee
Next Year:	1960

Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang! is the debut studio album by American singer Brenda Lee. The album was released on August 3, 1959 on Decca Records and was produced by Owen Bradley. The album was Brenda Lee's only studio album released during the 1950s.

Background and content

Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang! was recorded in two separate sessions in January 1959 at the Bradley Film and Recording Studio. The sessions took place on January 4 and January 26. The album consisted of twelve separate tracks of material, many of which were cover versions of previously recorded songs. The opening track entitled "Some of These Days", written by Shelton Brooks, was originally composed in 1910 and the second track entitled "Baby Face" was first recorded in 1926. The album was originally released on an LP record, which contained six songs on each side of the record.in 1961 it was rerelased with a new title but same catalog number as Sings Songs Everybody Knows and in 1968 on Vocalion Records a Decca subsiderary as Here's Brenda minus 2 songs^[1]

Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang! received three and a half out of five stars from AllMusic without an official review provided.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Some of These Days" – (Shelton Brooks) - 2:23
2. "Baby Face" – (Harry Akst, Benny Davis) - 2:15
3. "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" – (Eddie Green) - 2:27
4. "Just Because" – (Bob Shelton, Joe Shelton, Sid Robin) - 1:57
5. "Pennies from Heaven" – (Johnny Burke, Arthur Johnston) - 2:25
6. "Toot, Toot, Tootsie Goodbye" – (Ernie Erdman, Ted Fiorito, Gus Kahn, Dan Russo) - 2:20

Side two

1. "Ballin' the Jack" – (Jim Burris, Chris Smith) - 1:55
2. "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" - (Sam M. Lewis, Jean Schwartz, Joe Young) - 2:26
3. "Pretty Baby" – (Tony Jackson) - 1:42
4. "Side by Side" – (Harry M. Woods) - 2:12
5. "Back in Your Own Backyard" – (Al Jolson, Billy Rose, Dave Dreyer) - 2:50
6. "St. Louis Blues" – (W.C. Handy) - 2:54

Personnel

• Harold Bradley – guitar
• Floyd Cramer – piano
• Ray Edenton – guitar
• Dottie Dillard – background vocals
• James Doster – trombone
• Hank Garland – guitar
• Dutch Gorton – trombone
• Jack Gregory – saxophone
• Buddy Harman – drums
• Anita Kerr – background vocals
• Douglas Kirkham – background vocals, drums
• Millie Kirkham – background vocals
• Brenda Lee – lead vocals
• Baverly LeCroy – trombone
• Grady Martin – guitar
• Bob Moore – bass
• Gene Mullins – trombone
• Louis Nunley – background vocals
• Boots Randolph – saxophone
• Bill Wright – background vocals

Release history

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Date	Format	Label	Ref.
North America	August 1959	Vinyl LP	Decca Records	^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang! by Brenda Lee. Rate Your Music.
2. Lee . Brenda . Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang! (Liner Notes) . . August 3, 1959 . DL-8873.