A Bobby Vee Recording Session

A Bobby Vee Recording Session
Studio album by
Bobby Vee
ReleasedMay 1962
GenreRock and roll
Length25:35
LabelLiberty
ProducerSnuff Garrett
Bobby Vee chronology
Take Good Care of My Baby
(1962) 		A Bobby Vee Recording Session
(1962) 		Bobby Vee Meets the Crickets
(1962)
Singles from A Bobby Vee Recording Session
  1. "Please Don't Ask About Barbara/I Can't Say Goodbye"
    Released: February 2, 1962
  2. "Sharing You/In My Baby's Eyes"
    Released: April 27, 1962
  3. "A Forever Kind of Love/Remember Me, Huh?"
    Released: September, 1962
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]

A Bobby Vee Recording Session is the sixth studio album American singer Bobby Vee, and was released in May 1962 by Liberty Records.[3]

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".[4] "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,[5] and at numbers 29 and 10, respectively, in the United Kingdom.[6]

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.[7] It was more successful in The UK, where it spent for 11 weeks on the album chart there peaking at #10,"[8] The album was released on compact disc for the first time by Beat Goes On on March 10, 1999 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 Vee's Other Album from January 1962, Take Good Care of My Baby.[9]

  1. ^ ""A Bobby Vee Recording Session" - Album Ratings". Allmusic. Retrieved 2023-12-23.
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1446. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  3. ^ Bobby Vee, A Bobby Vee Recording Session Discogs.com, Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  4. ^ Reynolds, Robert (2016-04-13). The Music Of Bobby Vee. Lulu.com. p. 94. ISBN 9781365054129.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles: 1955-2002. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. p. 742. ISBN 0898-2-0155-1.
  6. ^ "BOBBY VEE". Official Charts. 1961-01-25. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
  7. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's top pop albums : 1955-1996 : compiled from Billboard magazine's pop album charts, 1955-1996. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. p. 814. ISBN 978-0-8982-0117-8.
  8. ^ "BOBBY VEE". Official Charts. 1963-01-12. Retrieved 2024-09-07.
  9. ^ "Take Good Care of My Baby/A Bobby Vee Recording Session". allmusic.com. Retrieved 16 September 2024.