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Bobby Vee's Golden Greats is a compilation album by American singer Bobby Vee that was released in November 1962 by Liberty Records. It was Vee's first greatest hits compilation on the Liberty label. He had as the major influences in his career his personal manager Arnold Mills and record producer, Snuff Garrett. [1] [2]
Robert Thomas Velline (April 30, 1943 – October 24, 2016), known professionally as Bobby Vee, was an American singer who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films. [1] According to Billboard magazine, he had thirty-eight Hot 100 chart hits, ten of which reached the Top 20. [2] [3] He had six gold singles in his career. [4]
Bobby Vee: Liberty LRP-3181/LST-7181 18 46 — — 1961 Bobby Vee with Strings and Things: Liberty LRP-3186/LST-7186 — 47 — — 1961 Bobby Vee Sings Hits of the Rockin' 50's: Liberty LRP-3205/LST-7205 85 — — 20 1961 Take Good Care of My Baby: Liberty LRP-3211/LST-7211 91 29 29 7 1962 A Bobby Vee Recording Session: Liberty LRP-3232/LST ...
30 Big Hits of the 60's is a studio album by American singer Bobby Vee, and was released in August 1964 by Liberty Records. [2]it contains hits from the 1960s by other artist with this album, [3] among the 30 tracks with combained with 5 songs are several, Beatles, Searchers and Frank Ifield song, and it including "Moon River", "P.S.
Cashbox praised Vee for his "delivers other favorites with exceptional poise and artistry. [9] The St. Petersburg Times wrote that "Youthful, personable Bobby Vee includes some of the numbers that have been smash singles". [10] Robert Reynolds, in The Music of Bobby Vee called it "his strongest album". [11]
The song was ranked No. 12 on Billboard ' s "Hot 100 for 1961 – Top Sides of the Year" [12] and No. 23 on Cash Box ' s "Top 100 Chart Hits of 1961". [13] The song was the lead track on Bobby Vee's album, Take Good Care of My Baby, which was released in 1962. [14] Vee re-recorded the song as a ballad in 1972. [2]
Bobby Vee, for whom the song was originally written, recorded the song for his 1963 album The Night Has a Thousand Eyes. The song was later included on the compilation albums The Essential Bobby Vee, [6] Legendary Master Series: Bobby Vee and Best of. British singer Helen Shapiro covered the song for her 1964 album Helen Hits Out. [7]
At the time of the album's release, and Giving it four stars to indicate "strong sales potential",Billboard noted Vee "selected a flock of the biggest hits of the past decade and does them in his pleasant style", [7] while Cash Box thought "Youngsters will appreciate [Vee's] strict adherence to the original sounds" of past rock and roll hits. [8]