This Is...Brenda
This Is...Brenda | ||||
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Bradley Film & Recording, Nashville | ||||
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Length | 31:54 | |||
Label | Decca | |||
Producer | Owen Bradley | |||
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Singles from This Is...Brenda | ||||
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Allmusic | [2] |
This Is...Brenda is the third studio album by American singer Brenda Lee. The album was released on October 10, 1960, on Decca Records and was produced by Owen Bradley. The release was Brenda Lee's second studio album released during 1960 and contained the single "I Want to Be Wanted", which became a number one single on the Billboard Hot 100.
Background and content
This Is...Brenda was recorded between March 1960 and September 1960 in six separate sessions that took place at the
This Is...Brenda was originally released as an LP record, with six songs on the first side of the record and six on the opposite end as well.[3] The album has been reissued on a compact disc in both the United Kingdom and Argentina.[4]
Release
This Is...Brenda spawned its lead single in September 1960 entitled "
Track listing
- Side one
- "When My Dreamboat Comes Home" – (Dave Franklin, Cliff Friend) - 2:15
- "I Want to Be Wanted" – (Kim Gannon, Giuseppe Spotti, Alberto Testa) - 3:05
- "Just a Little" – (Betty Chotas) - 2:26
- "Pretend" – (Dan Belloc, Lew Douglas, Frank Levere, Cliff Parman) - 2:53
- "Love and Learn" – (Bob Montgomery, Earl Sinks) - 2:06
- "Gene De Paul, Sammy Cahn) - 3:02
- Side two
- "Hallelujah I Love Him So" – (Ray Charles) - 2:24
- "Walking to New Orleans" – (Antoine "Fats" Domino, Dave Bartholomew, Robert Guidry) - 2:31
- ") - 2:30
- "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me)" – (Nelson Cogane (né Nelson Cogane Fonarow; 1902–1985), Sammy Mysels, Dick Robertson) - 3:31
- "Build a Big Fence" – (Chuck Taylor) - 2:28
- "If I Didn't Care" – (Jack Lawrence) - 2:43
Personnel
- Harold Bradley – guitar
- Floyd Cramer – piano
- Dottie Dillard – background vocals
- Ray Edenton – guitar
- Buddy Emmons – steel guitar
- drums
- Anita Kerr – background vocals
- Douglas Kirkham – drums
- Brenda Lee – lead vocals
- Grady Martin – guitar
- bass
- Louis Nunley – background vocals
- Boots Randolph – saxophone
- Bill Wright – background vocals
Sales chart positions
- Album
Chart (1960) | Peak position |
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U.S. Billboard 200[7] | 4 |
- Singles
Year | Song | Peak chart positions | ||
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US [6] |
US R&B [6] |
UK
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1960 | "I Want to Be Wanted" | 1 | 7 | 31 |
"Just a Little" | 40 | — | — | |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart |
Release history
Region | Date | Format | Label | Ref. |
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North America | October 10, 1960 | Vinyl LP | Decca Records | [8] |
References
- ^ a b "Brenda Lee's recording sessions". Praguefrank's Country Music. Archived from the original on 2011-07-08.
- ^ Allmusic.
- ^ "This Is...Brenda by Brenda Lee". Rate Your Music.
- ^ "This Is...Brenda profile". Brenda Lee.com.
- ^ a b "Brenda Lee UK chart runs". Polyhex. Archived from the original on 2008-12-07.
- ^ a b c "This Is...Brenda charts". Allmusic.
- ^ a b "This Is...Brenda > album charts". Allmusic.
- ^ Lee, Brenda (October 10, 1960). "This Is...Brenda (Liner Notes)". Decca Records. DL-74082.