A Bobby Vee Recording Session

A Bobby Vee Recording Session is the sixth studio album American singer Bobby Vee, and was released in May 1962 by Liberty Records.^[1]

A Bobby Vee Recording Session
Studio album by Bobby Vee
Released	May 1962
Genre	Rock and roll
Length	25:35
Label	Liberty
Producer	Snuff Garrett
Bobby Vee chronology
Take Good Care of My Baby (1962) A Bobby Vee Recording Session (1962) Bobby Vee Meets the Crickets (1962)
Singles from A Bobby Vee Recording Session
"Please Don't Ask About Barbara" Released: February 2, 1962 "Sharing You" Released: April 27, 1962 "A Forever Kind of Love" Released: September, 1962

It contains the hit singles "Sharing You" and "Please Don't Ask About Barbara", plus "In My Baby's Eyes" and a couple singles contenders, "My Golden Chance", and another Crickets composition, "Teardrops Fall Like Rain".^[2] "Sharing You" and "Please Don't Ask About Barbara" both peaked at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the United States,^[3] and at numbers 29 and 10, respectively, in the United Kingdom.^[4]

The album debuted on Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated July 21, 1962, and remained on the chart for 6 weeks, peaking at #121.^[5] It was more successful in The UK, where it spent for 11 weeks on the album chart there peaking at #10,"^[6] The album was released on compact disc by Beat Goes On on March 10, 1999 as tracks 13 through 24 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 1 through 12 consisting of Vee's 1962 album, Take Good Care of My Baby.^[7]

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.^[8]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[9]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[10]
Disc	[11]

Billboard selected the album for a "Spotlight Album" review, stating that it featured "the young artist, is in fresh, appealing vocal form on this collection of teen-appeal tunes, featuring many of his own and other' singles hit. Best sides are "You Better Move On", "Please Don't Ask About Barbara", "In My Baby's Eyes" and "My Golden Chance".^[12]

Cashbox noted that "Vee dishes up polished arrangements of "What's Your Name," & his recent hit of "Please Don't Ask About Barbara".^[13]

Bruce Eder of AllMusic said that "It's impossible to get too far past that thought, or the memory of Holly's "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" and "Raining in My Heart" in listening to this polished piece of teen idol pop/rock from Vee. He even does "Teardrops Fall Like Rain," a song written by and originally recorded by the post-Holly Crickets"^[1]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"What's Your Name"	Claude Johnson	2:02
2.	"My Golden Chance"	Dewayne Blackwell	2:29
3.	"You Better Move On"	Arthur Alexander	2:39
4.	"Please Don't Ask About Barbara"	Bill Buchanan, Jack Keller	2:01
5.	"Forget Me Not"	Les Vandyke	1:47
6.	"Sharing You"	Gerry Goffin, Carole King	2:03

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"In My Baby's Eyes"	Gerry Goffin, Carole King	2:05
2.	"Tenderly Yours"	D.W. Cobb	2:05
3.	"I Can't Say Goodbye"	Gerry Goffin, Carole King	2:05
4.	"Teardrops Fall Like Rain"	Jerry Allison, Tommy Garrett, Glen Hardin	1:38
5.	"Guess Who"	Jesse Belvin, Jo Ann Belvin	2:40
6.	"A Forever Kind of Love"	Gerry Goffin, Jack Keller	2:23

Chart positions

Chart (1962)	Peak position
US Billboard Top Albums	121
UK Albums Chart	10

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Peak position
1962	"Please Don't Ask About Barbara"	Billboard Hot 100[3]	15
		UK Singles Chart[4]	28
		Cashbox[14]	18
		Canada CHUM RPM	6
	"I Can't Say Goodbye"	Billboard Hot 100[3]	92
		Cashbox[14]	90
	"Sharing You"	Billboard Hot 100[3]	15
		UK Singles Chart[4]	10
		Cashbox[14]	20
	"In My Baby's Eyes"	Cashbox	121
	"A Forever Kind of Love"	UK Singles Chart[4]	13