Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites

1960 studio album by Bobby Vee

Studio album by

Bobby Vee

Released

May 1960

Genre

Rock and Roll

Length

30:25

Label

Liberty

Producer

Snuff Garrett

Bobby Vee chronology

Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites
(1960)

Bobby Vee
(1961)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[1]

Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites is the debut album by American Singer Bobby Vee, released in May 1960 by Liberty Records.^[2]

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.

it contiains a dozen balleds, consisting of old standars 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^[3]

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".^[4]

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.^[5]

Valley Times called it, an oscillating voice which grows upon the listener.^[6]

Valley News noted that, "These might not be your all-time favorites, but teen listeners ougl't to enjoy his stylings of such tunes."^[7]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Devil or Angel"	Blanche Carter	2:17
2.	"Mr. Blue"	Dewayne Blackwell	2:29
3.	"Just a Dream"	Jimmy Clanton, Cosimo Matassa	2:47
4.	"Since I Met You Baby"	Ivory Joe Hunter	2:42
5.	"It's All in the Game"	Charles G. Dawes	2:42
6.	"You Send Me"	Sam Cooke	2:41

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Young Love"	Ric Cartey, Carole Joyner	2:47
2.	"My Prayer"	Georges Boulanger, Carlos Gomez Barrera, Jimmy Kennedy	2:47
3.	"Sincerely"	Harvey Fuqua Alan Freed	2:39
4.	"Gone"	Smokey Rogers	2:06
5.	"I'm Sorry"	Dub Allbritten, Ronnie Self	2:26
6.	"Everyday"	Buddy Holly Norman Petty	2:07

Charts

Singles^[8]^[9]

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

References

^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1446. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
^ Bobby Vee, Bobby Vee Sings Your Favorites. Discogs.com, Retrieved December 21, 2023.
^ ^a ^b Reynolds, Robert (2016-04-13). The Music Of Bobby Vee. Lulu.com. p. 94. ISBN 9781365054129.
^ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1960-09-26. p. 37.
^ "Album Reviews". Cash Box. Vol. 22, no. 5. October 29, 1960. p. 42.
^ "Valley Times 23 Nov 1960, page 5". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
^ "Valley News 21 Oct 1960, page Page 37". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
^ Bobby Vee Single Releases. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
^ Bobby Vee Charting Singles. Retrieved April 22, 2023.