Bobby Vee Meets the Ventures

Bobby Vee Meets the Ventures
Studio album by
Bobby Vee and the Ventures
ReleasedJune 1, 1963
GenreRock and roll
Length29:32
LabelLiberty (LRP 3289/LST 7289)
ProducerSnuff Garrett
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Professional ratings
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AllMusic[1]
Disc[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]

Bobby Vee Meets the Ventures is a 1963 cross-over rock and roll album that brings Bobby Vee, a singer, together with the Ventures, an instrumental quartet.[4] Two tracks are instrumentals performed by the Ventures alone.[5] Bobby Vee Meets the Ventures was promoted by touring along with the 1962 album Bobby Vee Meets the Crickets.[6]

The album made its first appearance on Billboard Top LPs chart on June 1, 1963, and remained on the album chart for eight weeks, peaking at number 91.[7] No. 37 on the Cashbox albums chart.[8]

The album was released on compact disc for the first time by Beat Goes On on September 16, 1998, as tracks 13 through 24 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 1 through 12 consisting of being Vee's 9th studio album from February 1963, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes.[9] It was also released as one of two albums on one CD by Collectables Records on October 17, 2000, the other being Vee's 1967 album Come Back When You Grow Up.[10]

  1. ^ ""Bobby Vee Meets the Ventures" - Album Review". Allmusic. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
  2. ^ Hunter, Nigel (30 November 1963). "Bobby Vee: Bobby Vee Meets the Ventures" (PDF). Disc. No. 110. p. 12. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1020. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  4. ^ "I Remember Buddy Holly + Meets the Ventures". Jazz Messengers. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
  5. ^ Reynolds, Robert (2016-04-19). The Music of Bobby Vee. Lulu.com. p. 61. ISBN 978-1-365-05412-9.
  6. ^ Vidot, Gumersindo (2010). You Only Live Twice: My Story, from Boot Straps to Success. gumersindo vidot. ISBN 978-0-578-04947-2.
  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. ^ Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 388. ISBN 0-8108-2005-6.
  9. ^ "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes/Bobby Vee Meets the Ventures". allmusic.com. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  10. ^ "Come Back When You Grow Up/Bobby Vee Meets the Ventures". allmusic.com. Retrieved 16 September 2024.