Spotlight on Rick

Spotlight on Rick
Studio album by
Rick Nelson
ReleasedNovember 23, 1964
Genre
Length28:00
LabelDecca
ProducerCharles "Bud" Dant
Rick Nelson chronology
The Very Thought of You
(1964) 		Spotlight on Rick
(1964) 		Best Always
(1965)
Singles from Spotlight on Rick
  1. "A Happy Guy"
    Released: November 9, 1964

Spotlight on Rick is the eleventh studio album by rock and roll and pop idol Rick Nelson,[1] and his fourth for Decca Records, released on November 23, 1964. The track, "A Happy Guy", was released as a single and peaked at number 82 on the Billboard Hot 100.[2] and number 83 on the Cashbox singles chart.[3] Jimmie Haskell arranged the album and Charles "Bud" Dant produced it.

The album was released on compact disc for the first time by Ace Records on December 9, 1997 as tracks 13 through 24 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 1 through 12 consisting of the other album being Nelson's other Decca album from August 1964, The Very Thought of You[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference AMG was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2003). Joel Whitburn's top pop singles 1955-2002. Menomonee Falls, Wisc.: Record Research. p. 502. ISBN 0898201551.
  3. ^ Downey, Pat (1994). Cash box pop singles charts, 1950-1993. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited. pp. 244–245. ISBN 1-56308-316-7.
  4. ^ "Very Thought of You/Spotlight on Rick". allmusic.com. Retrieved 15 September 2024.