Take Good Care of My Baby (Bobby Vee album)

Take Good Care of My Baby
Studio album by
Released1962
GenrePop
Length27:37
LabelLiberty
ProducerSnuff Garrett
Bobby Vee chronology
Sings Hits of the Rockin' 50's
(1961)
Take Good Care of My Baby
(1962)
A Bobby Vee Recording Session
(1962)
Singles from Take Good Care of My Baby
  1. "Take Good Care of My Baby/Bashful Bob"
    Released: July 20, 1961
  2. "Run to Him/Walkin' My With Angel"
    Released: October 27, 1961
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[1]

Take Good Care of My Baby is the fifth studio album American singer Bobby Vee[2], and was released in 1962 by Liberty Records.[2]

It contains Vee's best-known hits "Take Good Care of My Baby", "Run to Him", and "Walkin' with My Angel".

The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated February 3, 1962, remaining on the chart for 14 weeks and peaking at No. 91.[3] It entered the UK album chart in February 1962 and spent one week at number seven over the course of 8 weeks"[4] No. 29 on the Cashbox albums chart.[5]

The album was released on compact disc for the first time by Beat Goes On on March 10, 1999 as tracks 1 through 12 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 13 through 24 consisting of the other album being Vee's Other Album from May 1962, A Bobby Vee Recording Session.[6]

  1. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1446. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b Take Good Care of My Baby - Bobby Vee | Album | AllMusic, retrieved 2024-09-19
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums: 1955-1996. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. p. 814. ISBN 978-0-8982-0117-8.
  4. ^ "BOBBY VEE". Official Charts. 1962-02-24. Retrieved 2024-09-07.
  5. ^ Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 388. ISBN 0-8108-2005-6.
  6. ^ "Take Good Care of My Baby/A Bobby Vee Recording Session". allmusic.com. Retrieved 16 September 2024.