Bobby Vee (album) explained

Bobby Vee is the second album by Bobby Vee and was released in 1961 by Liberty Records.

it contains with a genorous mix of orgininal hits and contemporary covers, including "Rubber Ball", "More Than I Can Say", "Mr. Sandman", "Poetry in Motion", & "One Last Kiss"^[1] "Rubber Ball" "More Than I Can Say" and "Stayin' In" peaked at numbers 6, 33, & 61 respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the United States,^[2] and "Rubber Ball" & "More Than I Can Say both peaked numbers 4, respectively, in the United Kingdom^[3]

The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated March 20, 1961, remaining on the album chart for fiftteeth weeks and peaking at No. 18, the highest position Vee achieved on the chart^[4]

The album was released on compact disc for the first time by Beat Goes On in 1999 as tracks 13 through 24 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 1 through 12 consisting of Vee's Debut Studio Album from May 1960, Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites.^[5]

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.^[6]

Reception

Joe Viglione of AllMusic said that "the hits have a timeless charm that puts them in a class above much of the close-to filler material here -- covers of Johnny Tillotson's "Poetry in Motion," the Chordettes/the Four Aces '50s hit "Mr. Sandman," the Fireballs/the Crickets "More Than I Can Say" (an eventual hit for Leo Sayer), and Little Willie John's "Talk to Me, Talk to Me". Of course with the hit songs to carry it, the "teen idol" look of the album and familiar material from other sources made for good marketing"^[7]

Cashbox mentioned that album "has the teeners solidly in mind."^[8]

Track listing

Side A

1. "Rubber Ball" (A. Orlowski, Aaron Schroeder)
2. "Talk to Me, Talk to Me" (Joe Seneca)
3. "One Last Kiss" (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams)
4. "Angels in the Sky" (Dick Glasser)
5. "Stayin' In" (John D. Loudermilk)
6. "Long Lonely Nights" (Lee Andrews)

Side B

1. "Devil or Angel" (Blanche Carter)
2. "Poetry in Motion" (Mike Anthony, Paul Kaufman)
3. "More Than I Can Say" (Jerry Allison, Sonny Curtis)
4. "Mister Sandman" (Pat Ballard)
5. "Foolish Tears" (Ann Hall, Bob Glasser, Dick Glasser)
6. "Love, Love, Love" (Sid Wyche, Sunny David, Teddy McRae)

Chart positions

Chart (1961)	Peak position
Billboard	18
Cashbox	46

Singles^{[9] [10]}

Year	Single	Chart	Peak position
1960	"One Last Kiss"	Billboard Hot 100[11]	112
		Cashbox.[12]	91
	"Devil or Angel"	Billboard Hot 100	6
		U.S. R&B	22
		Cashbox	4
	"Rubber Ball"	Billboard Hot 100	6
		UK Singles Chart	4
		Cashbox	6
1961	"Stayin' In"	Billboard Hot 100	33
		Cashbox	32
	"More Than I Can Say"	Billboard Hot 100	61
		UK Singles Chart	4
		Cashbox	48

Notes and References

1. Book: Reynolds, Robert . The Music of Bobby Vee . 2016-04-19 . Lulu.com . 978-1-365-05412-9 . en.
2. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles: 1955-2002 . 2002 . Record Research . 0898-2-0155-1 . Menomonee Falls, Wis. . 742.
3. Web site: 1961-01-25 . BOBBY VEE . 2023-12-29 . Official Charts . en.
4. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums: 1955-1996 . 1996 . Record Research . 978-0-8982-0117-8 . Menomonee Falls, Wis. . 814.
5. Web site: Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites/Bobby Vee . 16 September 2024 . allmusic.com .
6. Web site: Eight Classic Albums Plus Bonus Singles . 23 October 2024 . allmusic.com .
7. Web site: Viglione . Joe . Bobby Vee - "Bobby Vee" - Album Review . 2024-06-26 . AllMusic.
8. Book: Cash Box . 1961-01-28 . Cash Box Pub. Co. . 30.
9. https://www.45cat.com/artist/bobby-vee Bobby Vee Single Releases
10. https://musicvf.com/Bobby+Vee.art Bobby Vee Charting Singles
11. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn's Bubbling under the hot 100, 1959-1981 . Record Research . 1982 . 978-0-8982-0047-8 . Menomonee Falls, Wis . 174.
12. Book: Downey, Pat . Cash box pop singles charts, 1950-1993 . 1994 . Libraries Unlimited . 1-56308-316-7 . Englewood, Colo. . 362-363.