A Bobby Vee Recording Session

1962 studio album by Bobby Vee

A Bobby Vee Recording Session

Studio album by

Bobby Vee

Released| May 1962
Genre| Rock and roll
Length| 25:35
Label| Liberty
Producer| Snuff Garrett
Bobby Vee chronology
| Take Good Care of My Baby
(1962)  | A Bobby Vee Recording Session
(1962)  | Bobby Vee Meets the Crickets
(1962)

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Singles from  A Bobby Vee Recording Session

1. "Please Don't Ask About Barbara"
Released: February 2, 1962
2. "Sharing You"
Released: April 27, 1962
3. "A Forever Kind of Love"
Released: September, 1962

A Bobby Vee Recording Session is the sixth studio album American singer Bobby Vee, and was released in May 1962 by Liberty Records.[1]

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".[2] "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,[3] and at numbers 29 and 10, respectively, in the United Kingdom.[4]

The album debuted on Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated July 21, 1962, and remained on the chart for 6 weeks, peaking at #121.[5] It was more successful in The UK, where it spent for 11 weeks on the album chart there peaking at #10,"[6] The album was released on compact disc 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 Vee's 1962 album, Take Good Care of My Baby.[7]

Reel To Reel labels included this CD in a box set entitled Eight Classic Albums Plus Bonus Singles and was released on October 4, 2019.[8]

## Reception

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [9]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music| [10]
Disc| [11]

Billboard selected the album for a "Spotlight Album" review, stating that it featured "the young artist, is in fresh, appealing vocal form on this collection of teen-appeal tunes, featuring many of his own and other' singles hit. Best sides are "You Better Move On", "Please Don't Ask About Barbara", "In My Baby's Eyes" and "My Golden Chance".[12]

Cashbox noted that "Vee dishes up polished arrangements of "What's Your Name," & his recent hit of "Please Don't Ask About Barbara".[13]

Bruce Eder of AllMusic said that "It's impossible to get too far past that thought, or the memory of Holly's "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" and "Raining in My Heart" in listening to this polished piece of teen idol pop/rock from Vee. He even does "Teardrops Fall Like Rain," a song written by and originally recorded by the post-Holly Crickets"[1]

## Track listing

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### Side one

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No.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "What's Your Name"| Claude Johnson| 2:02
2.| "My Golden Chance"| Dewayne Blackwell| 2:29
3.| "You Better Move On"| Arthur Alexander| 2:39
4.| "Please Don't Ask About Barbara"| Bill Buchanan, Jack Keller| 2:01
5.| "Forget Me Not"| Les Vandyke| 1:47
6.| "Sharing You"| Gerry Goffin, Carole King| 2:03

### Side two

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No.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "In My Baby's Eyes"| Gerry Goffin, Carole King| 2:05
2.| "Tenderly Yours"| D.W. Cobb| 2:05
3.| "I Can't Say Goodbye"| Gerry Goffin, Carole King| 2:05
4.| "Teardrops Fall Like Rain"| Jerry Allison, Tommy Garrett, Glen Hardin| 1:38
5.| "Guess Who"| Jesse Belvin, Jo Ann Belvin| 2:40
6.| "A Forever Kind of Love"| Gerry Goffin, Jack Keller| 2:23

## Chart positions

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Chart (1962)  | Peak
position

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US Billboard Top Albums | 121
UK Albums Chart | 10

Singles
Year  | Single  | Chart  | Peak
position

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1962  | "Please Don't Ask About Barbara"  | Billboard Hot 100[3] | 15
UK Singles Chart[4] | 28
Cashbox[14] | 18
Canada

CHUM RPM

| 6
"I Can't Say Goodbye"  | Billboard Hot 100[3] | 92
Cashbox[14] | 90
"Sharing You"  | Billboard Hot 100[3] | 15
UK Singles Chart[4] | 10
Cashbox[14] | 20
"In My Baby's Eyes"  | Cashbox  | 121
"A Forever Kind of Love"  | UK Singles Chart[4] | 13

## References

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1. ^ a b ""A Bobby Vee Recording Session" - Album Review". AllMusic. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
2. ^ Reynolds, Robert (April 13, 2016). The Music Of Bobby Vee. Lulu.com. p. 94\. ISBN 9781365054129.
3. ^ a b c d Whitburn, Joel (2002). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles: 1955-2002. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. p. 742\. ISBN 0898-2-0155-1.
4. ^ a b c d "BOBBY VEE". Official Charts. January 25, 1961. Retrieved December 29, 2023.
5. ^ 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.
6. ^ "BOBBY VEE". Official Charts. January 12, 1963. Retrieved September 7, 2024.
7. ^ "Take Good Care of My Baby/A Bobby Vee Recording Session". allmusic.com. Retrieved September 16, 2024.
8. ^ "Eight Classic Albums Plus Bonus Singles". allmusic.com. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
9. ^ ""A Bobby Vee Recording Session" - Album Ratings". Allmusic. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
10. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1446\. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved August 22, 2024.
11. ^ Hunter, Nigel (February 2, 1963). "LPs Reviewed by Nigel Hunter: ADAM'S ALL OUT FOR A COUNTRY SOUND" (PDF). Disc. No. 200\. p. 11. Retrieved March 9, 2025.
12. ^ "Pop Spotlight: A Bobby Vee Recording Session". Billboard. Vol. 74, no. 21\. May 26, 1962. p. 22.
13. ^ "Album Popular Pick of the Week Reviews: A Bobby Vee Recording Session". Cash Box. Vol. 23, no. 34\. May 19, 1962. p. 30.
14. ^ a b c Downey, Pat (1994). Cash box pop singles charts, 1950-1993. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited. pp. 362–363\. ISBN 1-56308-316-7.

* v
* t
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Bobby Vee

Albums|

* Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites
* Bobby Vee
* Bobby Vee with Strings and Things
* Bobby Vee Sings Hits of the Rockin' 50's
* Take Good Care of My Baby
* A Bobby Vee Recording Session
* Bobby Vee Meets the Crickets
* Merry Christmas from Bobby Vee
* The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
* Bobby Vee Meets the Ventures
* I Remember Buddy Holly
* The New Sound from England!
* 30 Big Hits of the 60's
* 30 Big Hits of the 60's, Volume 2
* Look at Me Girl
* Come Back When You Grow Up
* Just Today
* Do What You Gotta Do
* Gates, Grills & Railings
* Down the Line

Compilations|

* Bobby Vee's Golden Greats
* Bobby Vee's Golden Greats Vol. 2

Soundtrack albums|

* C'mon, Let's Live a Little

EPs|

* Just for Fun

Singles|

* "Devil or Angel"
* "Rubber Ball"
* "More Than I Can Say"
* "How Many Tears"
* "Take Good Care of My Baby"
* "Run to Him"
* "Please Don't Ask About Barbara"
* "Sharing You"
* "Punish Her"
* "A Forever Kind of Love"
* "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"
* "Charms"
* "Come Back When You Grow Up"
* "Medley: My Girl/Hey Girl"

B-sides|

* "Everyday"

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* Discography

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