Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites Explained

Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites is the debut album by American Singer Bobby Vee, released in May 1960 by Liberty Records.^[1]

It features his 1st big hit Devil or Angel, and a mirror hit "Since I Met You Baby", They peaked at Nos. 6, and 81, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the United States.^[2]

It contiains a dozen balleds, consisting of old standards and "newer" love songs.^[3] it provides a good look at popular ballads during that period and what fans could expect from him on future recordings

The album was released on compact disc by Beat Goes On in 1999 as tracks 1 through 12 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 12 through 24 consisting of Vee's 1961 album, Bobby Vee.^[4]

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.^[5]

Critical reception

Billboard described it as "Liberty's remarkable young singer and rising star -- currently smashings with "Devil or Angel", records an album of the biggest pop hits of recent years. including "Devil or Angel", "Young Love", "Gone", etc".^[6]

Cashbox praised Vee for his "performs here in his initial LP are the proven hits from the recent past, and The arrangements and vocal stylings are replicas of the tunes’ original hit sounds.^[7]

Valley Times called it, an oscillating voice which grows upon the listener.^[8]

Valley News noted that, "These might not be your all-time favorites, but teen listeners ougl't to enjoy his stylings of such tunes."^[9]

Track listing

Side two

Charts

Singles^{[10] [11]}

Year	Single	Chart	Peak positions
1960	"Devil or Angel"	US Billboard Hot 100	6
		US Cashbox[12]	4
		US Billboard R&B	22
		Canada CHUM	2
	"Since I Met You Baby"	US Billboard Hot 100	81

References

1. https://www.discogs.com/release/5773381-Bobby-Vee-Bobby-Vee-Sings-Your-Favorites Bobby Vee, Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites
2. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles: 1955-2002 . 2002 . Record Research . 0898-2-0155-1 . Menomonee Falls, Wis. . 742.
3. Book: Reynolds, Robert . The Music Of Bobby Vee . 2016-04-13 . . 9781365054129 . 94.
4. Web site: Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites/Bobby Vee . 16 September 2024 . allmusic.com .
5. Web site: Eight Classic Albums Plus Bonus Singles . 23 October 2024 . allmusic.com .
6. Book: Billboard . 1960-09-26 . Nielsen Business Media, Inc. . 37 . en.
7. October 29, 1960 . Album Reviews . . 42 . 22 . 5.
8. Web site: Valley Times 23 Nov 1960, page 5 . 2023-12-30 . Newspapers.com . en.
9. Web site: Valley News 21 Oct 1960, page Page 37 . 2023-12-30 . Newspapers.com . en.
10. https://www.45cat.com/artist/bobby-vee Bobby Vee Single Releases
11. https://musicvf.com/Bobby+Vee.art Bobby Vee Charting Singles
12. Book: Downey, Pat . Cash box pop singles charts, 1950-1993 . 1994 . Libraries Unlimited . 1-56308-316-7 . Englewood, Colo. . 362-363.