| A Bobby Vee Recording Session | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Bobby Vee |
| Cover: | A Bobby Vee Recording Session.JPG |
| Released: | May 1962 |
| Genre: | Rock and roll |
| Length: | 25:35 |
| Label: | Liberty |
| Producer: | Snuff Garrett |
| Prev Title: | Take Good Care of My Baby |
| Prev Year: | 1962 |
| Year: | 1962 |
| Next Title: | Bobby Vee Meets the Crickets |
| Next Year: | 1962 |
| Chronology: | Bobby Vee |
A Bobby Vee Recording Session is the sixth studio album American singer Bobby Vee, and was released in May 1962 by Liberty Records.
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".[1] "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,[2] and at numbers 29 and 10, respectively, in the United Kingdom.[3]
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.[4] It was more successful in The UK, where it spent for 11 weeks on the album chart there peaking at #10,"[5] 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 Vee's 1962 album, Take Good Care of My Baby.[6]
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.[7]
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"[8]
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".[9]
Cashbox gave the album a postive review, saying "Vee dishes up polished arrangements of “What’s Your Name,” & his recent hit of “Please Don’t Ask About Barbara”[10]
| Chart (1962) | Peakposition |
|---|---|
| Billboard | 121 |
| UK Albums Chart | 10 |
| Year | Single | Chart | Peakposition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | "Please Don't Ask About Barbara" | Billboard Hot 100 | 15 |
| UK Singles Chart | 28 | ||
| Cashbox[13] | 18 | ||
| Canada CHUM RPM | 6 | ||
| "I Can't Say Goodbye" | Billboard Hot 100 | 92 | |
| Cashbox. | 90 | ||
| "Sharing You" | Billboard Hot 100 | 15 | |
| UK Singles Chart | 10 | ||
| Cashbox | 20 | ||
| "In My Baby's Eyes" | Cashbox | 121 | |
| "A Forever Kind of Love" | UK Singles Chart | 13 | |