Coming On Strong (song)

"Coming On Strong"
Single by Brenda Lee
from the album Coming On Strong
B-side"You Keep Coming Back to Me"
Released19 September 1966
Recorded10 August 1966
GenreRock[1]
Length2:00
LabelDecca Records 32018
Songwriter(s)Little David Wilkins
Brenda Lee singles chronology
"Ain't Gonna Cry No More"
(1966) 		"Coming On Strong"
(1966) 		"Ride, Ride, Ride"
(1967)

"Coming On Strong" is a song written by Little David Wilkins and performed by Brenda Lee.[2] The song reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966.[3] The song also reached #9 in Canada and #76 in Australia. It was featured on her 1966 album, Coming on Strong.[4]

Lee's version is referenced in the 1973 Golden Earring song "Radar Love".[5]

The song was ranked #70 on Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1966.[6]

  1. ^ Burke, Ken (January 1, 1998). "Brenda Lee". In Knopper, Steve (ed.). MusicHound Lounge: The Essential Album Guide. Detroit: Visible Ink Press. pp. 281–282.
  2. ^ Brenda Lee, "Coming on Strong" single release Retrieved June 21, 2014
  3. ^ Brenda Lee, "Coming on Strong" Chart Positions Retrieved June 21, 2014
  4. ^ Brenda Lee, Coming on Strong Retrieved June 21, 2014
  5. ^ Brenda Lee, "Coming on Strong" single release Retrieved June 21, 2014
  6. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1966". Archived from the original on June 18, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2014.