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Take Good Care of My Baby (Bobby Vee album)

Take Good Care of My Baby is the fifth studio album American singer Bobby Vee,[2] and was released in 1962 by Liberty Records.[2]

Take Good Care of My Baby
Studio album by
Bobby Vee
Released1962
GenrePop
Length27:37
LabelLiberty
ProducerSnuff Garrett
Bobby Vee chronology
Sings Hits of the Rockin' 50's
(1961) 		Take Good Care of My Baby
(1962) 		A Bobby Vee Recording Session
(1962)
Singles from Take Good Care of My Baby
  1. "Take Good Care of My Baby/Bashful Bob"
    Released: July 20, 1961
  2. "Run to Him/Walkin' My With Angel"
    Released: October 27, 1961
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[1]

It contains Vee's best-known hits "Take Good Care of My Baby", "Run to Him", and "Walkin' with My Angel".

The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated February 3, 1962, remaining on the chart for 14 weeks and peaking at No. 91.[3] It entered the UK album chart in February 1962 and spent one week at number seven over the course of 8 weeks"[4] No. 29 on the Cashbox albums chart.[5]

The album was released on compact disc for the first time by Beat Goes On on March 10, 1999 as tracks 1 through 12 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 13 through 24 consisting of the other album being Vee's other album from 1962, A Bobby Vee Recording Session.[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]

Reception

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Billboard described the album as "His Biggest LP Ever"[8]

Cashbox praised Vee for his "delivers other favorites with exceptional poise and artistry.[9]

The St. Petersburg Times wrote that "Youthful, personable Bobby Vee includes some of the numbers that have been smash singles".[10]

Robert Reynolds, in The Music of Bobby Vee called it "his strongest album".[11]

Track listing

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Side one

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Take Good Care of My Baby"Gerry Goffin, Carole King2:27
2."Will You Love Me Tomorrow"Goffin, King2:49
3."Remember Me, Huh"Billy Page2:39
4."He Will Break Your Heart"Jerry Butler, Calvin Carter, Curtis Mayfield2:34
5."Who Am I?"Les Vandyke1:58
6."Run to Him"Goffin, Jack Keller2:09

Side two

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Walkin' with My Angel"Goffin, King2:14
2."Raining in My Heart"Felice Bryant2:51
3."Go On"Roy Orbison, Joe Melson2:20
4."Little Flame"Beverly Ross1:56
5."So You're in Love"Jerry Allison, Sonny Curtis2:11
6."Hark, Is That a Cannon I Hear"Jackie DeShannon, Zelda Sands1:55

Singles

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"Take Good Care of My Baby" made its debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on August 7, 1961, eventually spending three weeks at number one during its 15-week stay,[12] number one on the Cash Box singles chart,[13] and number 3 in the UK Singles.[14] "Run to Him" made its debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on November 13, 1961, eventually spending one week at number two during its 15-week stay,[12] number one on the Cash Box singles chart,[13] and number 4 in the UK Singles.[14] "Walkin' with My Angel" made its debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on November 27, 1961, eventually spending one week at number fifty-three during its 9-week stay[12] and number eighty-nine on the Cash Box singles chart.[13]

Charts

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Chart (1962) Peak
position
US Billboard Top LPs 91
US Cash Box 29
UK Albums Chart 7
Singles[15][16]
Year Single Chart Peak
1961 "Take Good Care of My Baby" US Billboard Hot 100 1
UK Singles Chart 3
US Cash Box 1
Canada CHUM 1
"Run to Him" US Billboard Hot 100 2
US Cash Box 6
Canada CHUM 6
UK Singles Chart 4
"Walkin' with My Angel" US Billboard Hot 100 53
US Cash Box 89
Canada CHUM 5

References

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  1. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1446. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b Take Good Care of My Baby - Bobby Vee | Album | AllMusic, retrieved 2024-09-19
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums: 1955-1996. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. p. 814. ISBN 978-0-8982-0117-8.
  4. ^ "BOBBY VEE". Official Charts. 1962-02-24. Retrieved 2024-09-07.
  5. ^ Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 388. ISBN 0-8108-2005-6.
  6. ^ "Take Good Care of My Baby/A Bobby Vee Recording Session". allmusic.com. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  7. ^ "Eight Classic Albums Plus Bonus Singles". allmusic.com. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  8. ^ "Vee + Ventures + Volume!: Take Good Care of My Baby". Billboard. November 27, 1961. p. 23.
  9. ^ "Album Popular Pick Reviews: Take Good Care of My Baby". Cash Box. Vol. 23, no. 11. December 9, 1961. p. 20.
  10. ^ "Bobby Vee Single Hits Packaged Into Album". St. Petersburg Times. February 10, 1962.
  11. ^ Reynolds, Robert (2016-04-13). The Music Of Bobby Vee. Lulu.com. p. 95. ISBN 9781365054129.
  12. ^ a b c Whitburn, Joel (2002). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles: 1955-2002. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. p. 742. ISBN 0898-2-0155-1.
  13. ^ a b c Downey, Pat (1994). Cash box pop singles charts, 1950-1993. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited. pp. 362–363. ISBN 1-56308-316-7.
  14. ^ a b "BOBBY VEE". Official Charts. 1961-01-25. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
  15. ^ Bobby Vee Single Releases. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
  16. ^ Bobby Vee Charting Singles. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
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