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This 26-song compilation has a lot more going for it than "Take Good Care of My Baby" or "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" -- indeed, some of Bobby Vee's less-well-known singles are more interesting than certain of the hits, with "Suzie Baby" and "What Do You Want" leading the pack, the latter especially, for emulating the sound of Buddy Holly's final single, "It Doesn't Matter Anymore." And "One Last Kiss" is an unexpectedly strong rendition of the song from Bye Bye Birdie. Beyond that point, the disc goes into the familiar territory of his hits ("Devil or Angel," "Rubber Ball," etc.), most of them mastered in their stereo versions, which, given the polish of Snuff Garrett's production, isn't a bad thing. Some of the teen pop, such as "Stayin' In" -- a song about after-school detention and affairs of the heart -- and "How Many Tears," don't hold up except as artifacts of their era, but they're not too obtrusive in the overall scheme of this CD, which covers a lot of territory, occasionally in unexpected ways. "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes," for instances, is mastered from a source that includes the four-second count-off before the song actually begins and has a sound so close and loud that it actually ends up rocking quite a bit harder than it ever did as a single on the radio. Even his plunge into pop around 1964-1965 gets its best possible face, with the opulently produced and beautifully sung "Be True to Yourself." And the songs extend to Vee's post-1966 reshaping of his sound with "Look at Me Girl," "Come Back When You Grow Up" (which was, in fact, his biggest selling if not his highest charting single), and so on. Among the non-single tracks included, incidentally, is Vee's excellent version of Buddy Holly's "Everyday," but among the pieces promised but not present is the supposed 26th track, a Bobby Vee radio spot that's listed but is nowhere to be found on the disc. The sound is generally of a very high standard, though one suspects that a new compilation done by a competent producer and engineer could get better results today. And the annotation is very thorough, providing a good introduction and overview of this underrated artist -- anyone seeking more should go to Beat Goes On's reissues of Vee's individual albums, two-on-one to a CD.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
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Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Robet Thomas Velline, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Vee, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
Robet Thomas Velline, Composer - Bobby Vee, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1973 Capitol Records, LLC
Bill Velline, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Vee, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1973 Capitol Records, LLC
Norman Petty, ComposerLyricist - Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Charles Hardin, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Vee, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
D. GLASSER, Composer - The Crickets, MainArtist - Tommy "Snuff" Garrett, Composer - Snuffy Garrett, Producer - Bobby Vee, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1962 Capitol Records, LLC
Buddy Holly, Composer - Tommy "Snuff" Garrett, Producer - Bobby Vee, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1963 Capitol Records, LLC
Sweet, Mastering Engineer, Remixer, StudioPersonnel - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - Tommy "Snuff" Garrett, Producer - Bobby Vee, MainArtist - The Johnny Mann Singers, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Blanche Carter, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
AARON SCHROEDER, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Vee, MainArtist - Anne Orlowski, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, Inc. All rights reserved
Gerald Goffin, ComposerLyricist - Carole King, ComposerLyricist - Snuffy Garrett, Producer - Bobby Vee, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1963 Capitol Records, LLC
John D. Loudermilk, ComposerLyricist - Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bobby Vee, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Allison, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Curtis, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Vee, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
Gerald Goffin, ComposerLyricist - Carole King, ComposerLyricist - Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bobby Vee, MainArtist - The Johnny Mann Singers, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
Barry DeVorzon, Composer - Bobby Vee, MainArtist - Bodie Chandler, Composer
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1974 Capitol Records, LLC
Carole King, ComposerLyricist - Gerry Goffin, ComposerLyricist - Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - Bobby Vee, MainArtist - The Johnny Mann Singers, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
Gerald Goffin, ComposerLyricist - Sweet, Mastering Engineer, Remixer, StudioPersonnel - Jack Keller, ComposerLyricist - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - Tommy "Snuff" Garrett, Producer - Bobby Vee, MainArtist - The Johnny Mann Singers, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
Gerald Goffin, ComposerLyricist - Carole King, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Vee, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1974 Capitol Records, LLC
Carole King, ComposerLyricist - Gerry Goffin, ComposerLyricist - SNUFF GARRETT, Producer - Bobby Vee, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bobby Vee, MainArtist - The Johnny Mann Singers, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Johnny Gluck, Composer - Neval Nader, Composer
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jack Keller, ComposerLyricist - Roy Buchanan, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Vee, MainArtist - The Johnny Mann Singers, Vocals, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
Robet Thomas Velline, Composer - Bobby Vee, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1963 Capitol Records, LLC
H. Miller, Composer - Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Howard Greenfield, Composer - Tommy "Snuff" Garrett, Producer - Bobby Vee, MainArtist - The Johnny Mann Singers, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
Ben Weisman, ComposerLyricist - ERNIE FREEMAN, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Tommy "Snuff" Garrett, Producer - Bobby Vee, MainArtist - Marilyn Garrett, ComposerLyricist - Dorothy Wayne, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1962 Capitol Records, LLC
Richard Gottehrer, ComposerLyricist - JERRY GOLDSTEIN, ComposerLyricist - BOB FELDMAN, ComposerLyricist - Tommy "Snuff" Garrett, Producer - Bobby Vee, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1963 Capitol Records, LLC
Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bobby Vee, MainArtist - The Eligibles, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Robert Thomas Velline, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Martha Sharp, Composer - Bobby Vee, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
Kenny O'Dell, ComposerLyricist - Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bobby Vee, MainArtist - Don Tweedy, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - M. Sharp, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Vee, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
William Robinson, Jr., ComposerLyricist - Gerald Goffin, ComposerLyricist - Ronald White, ComposerLyricist - Carole King, ComposerLyricist - Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bobby Vee, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1990 Capitol Records, LLC
Albumbeschreibung
This 26-song compilation has a lot more going for it than "Take Good Care of My Baby" or "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" -- indeed, some of Bobby Vee's less-well-known singles are more interesting than certain of the hits, with "Suzie Baby" and "What Do You Want" leading the pack, the latter especially, for emulating the sound of Buddy Holly's final single, "It Doesn't Matter Anymore." And "One Last Kiss" is an unexpectedly strong rendition of the song from Bye Bye Birdie. Beyond that point, the disc goes into the familiar territory of his hits ("Devil or Angel," "Rubber Ball," etc.), most of them mastered in their stereo versions, which, given the polish of Snuff Garrett's production, isn't a bad thing. Some of the teen pop, such as "Stayin' In" -- a song about after-school detention and affairs of the heart -- and "How Many Tears," don't hold up except as artifacts of their era, but they're not too obtrusive in the overall scheme of this CD, which covers a lot of territory, occasionally in unexpected ways. "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes," for instances, is mastered from a source that includes the four-second count-off before the song actually begins and has a sound so close and loud that it actually ends up rocking quite a bit harder than it ever did as a single on the radio. Even his plunge into pop around 1964-1965 gets its best possible face, with the opulently produced and beautifully sung "Be True to Yourself." And the songs extend to Vee's post-1966 reshaping of his sound with "Look at Me Girl," "Come Back When You Grow Up" (which was, in fact, his biggest selling if not his highest charting single), and so on. Among the non-single tracks included, incidentally, is Vee's excellent version of Buddy Holly's "Everyday," but among the pieces promised but not present is the supposed 26th track, a Bobby Vee radio spot that's listed but is nowhere to be found on the disc. The sound is generally of a very high standard, though one suspects that a new compilation done by a competent producer and engineer could get better results today. And the annotation is very thorough, providing a good introduction and overview of this underrated artist -- anyone seeking more should go to Beat Goes On's reissues of Vee's individual albums, two-on-one to a CD.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 28 track(s)
- Total length: 01:03:41
- Main artists: Bobby Vee
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Capitol Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2011 Capitol Records, LLC This Compilation ℗ 2011 Capitol Records, LLC
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