Brenda Lee: Grandma What Great Songs You Sang / Miss Dynamite
Grandma What Great Songs You Sang / Miss Dynamite
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
- Label:
- Ace, 1959-60
- Artikelnummer:
- 3355530
- UPC/EAN:
- 0029667004220
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 1.11.2004
The best selling female pop vocalist of the early to mid 1960s, Brenda Lee was an international megastar who sold over 100 million records she was voted Best Female Vocalist by the NME for five consecutive years all before she was 21. And while it is true to say she showed a preference for recording ballads in order to attract the greatest number of record buyers, she also possessed one of the toughest rock'n'roll voices of the period THE greatest according to John Lennon.
Brenda Lee's mother's aim was to make a child star of her youngest daughter. In 1956, aged 14, Brenda's career took a quantum leap forward when a deejay friend introduced her to the country music legend Red Foley and his manager, Dub Allbritten. Foley fronted the Ozark Jubilee, a weekly country and rockabilly showcase televised nationally and Brenda made her debut there performing the old Hank Williams tune Jambalaya on the show's monthly junior spot on 31 March 1956. She appeared regularly on the show until 1959 when hit records transformed the dynamics of her career.
Crossroads Productions signed Brenda to a managerial contract and Decca signed her to a recording contract on 21 May 1956. They launched her recording career with Jambalaya, promoting her as a beribboned singing cherub.
Most of the singles Lee made in 1956-57 attempted the difficult compromise of marrying her 'kiddie' image to the demands of bump 'n' grind rock 'n' roll. Her third 45, One Step At A Time reached the US Top 50 in the spring of 1957 and she consolidated with a lesser hit, Dynamite, that summer. However, subsequent releases failed to register and she was absent from the 1958 charts, by which time her novelty appeal had waned.
Bradley and Allbritten remained confident that their faith in Brenda would ultimately be fulfilled and they worked at maintaining her profile. The record that finally propelled her to international stardom in late 1959 was Sweet Nothin's featuring an unusual whispering gimmick on the intro that proved popular with deejays. The next single, I'm Sorry, reached #1 on its way to becoming one of 1960's biggest hits.
She consolidated her position as a major recording star by following with a second #1, I Want To Be Wanted, an Italian ballad customised with English lyrics. That December, a timely re-issue of 1958's Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree reached #14, while her next regular 45, Emotions climbed to #7. Decca, it seemed, couldn't press Brenda's records fast enough to meet the demand and her success helped focus the industry's attention on Nashville as a recording locale. In fact, Brenda and fellow chart-maker Roy Orbison were arguably the twin standard bearers of Nashville's rise to pre-eminence in the pop market during the 60s.
Here, then, are her first two LPs recorded when she was just 15 and 16, paired (in stereo) on one CD. "Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang!" recorded in 1958 before she'd had a major hit, was a largely experimental set comprising songs from an earlier age. "Miss Dynamite" (known simply as "Brenda Lee" in the States) shows how quickly she found her own style given the right material. It spent an incredible 57 weeks on Billboard's LP chart peaking at #5. The booklet features original cover art enhanced with extra memorabilia and additional annotation by wee laddie Rob Finnis.
Brenda Lee's mother's aim was to make a child star of her youngest daughter. In 1956, aged 14, Brenda's career took a quantum leap forward when a deejay friend introduced her to the country music legend Red Foley and his manager, Dub Allbritten. Foley fronted the Ozark Jubilee, a weekly country and rockabilly showcase televised nationally and Brenda made her debut there performing the old Hank Williams tune Jambalaya on the show's monthly junior spot on 31 March 1956. She appeared regularly on the show until 1959 when hit records transformed the dynamics of her career.
Crossroads Productions signed Brenda to a managerial contract and Decca signed her to a recording contract on 21 May 1956. They launched her recording career with Jambalaya, promoting her as a beribboned singing cherub.
Most of the singles Lee made in 1956-57 attempted the difficult compromise of marrying her 'kiddie' image to the demands of bump 'n' grind rock 'n' roll. Her third 45, One Step At A Time reached the US Top 50 in the spring of 1957 and she consolidated with a lesser hit, Dynamite, that summer. However, subsequent releases failed to register and she was absent from the 1958 charts, by which time her novelty appeal had waned.
Bradley and Allbritten remained confident that their faith in Brenda would ultimately be fulfilled and they worked at maintaining her profile. The record that finally propelled her to international stardom in late 1959 was Sweet Nothin's featuring an unusual whispering gimmick on the intro that proved popular with deejays. The next single, I'm Sorry, reached #1 on its way to becoming one of 1960's biggest hits.
She consolidated her position as a major recording star by following with a second #1, I Want To Be Wanted, an Italian ballad customised with English lyrics. That December, a timely re-issue of 1958's Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree reached #14, while her next regular 45, Emotions climbed to #7. Decca, it seemed, couldn't press Brenda's records fast enough to meet the demand and her success helped focus the industry's attention on Nashville as a recording locale. In fact, Brenda and fellow chart-maker Roy Orbison were arguably the twin standard bearers of Nashville's rise to pre-eminence in the pop market during the 60s.
Here, then, are her first two LPs recorded when she was just 15 and 16, paired (in stereo) on one CD. "Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang!" recorded in 1958 before she'd had a major hit, was a largely experimental set comprising songs from an earlier age. "Miss Dynamite" (known simply as "Brenda Lee" in the States) shows how quickly she found her own style given the right material. It spent an incredible 57 weeks on Billboard's LP chart peaking at #5. The booklet features original cover art enhanced with extra memorabilia and additional annotation by wee laddie Rob Finnis.
- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Some of these days
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2 Pennies From Heaven
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3 Baby face
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4 A Good Man Is Hard To Find
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5 Just Because
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6 Toot, Toot, Tootsie
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7 Ballin' the Jack
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8 Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody
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9 Pretty Baby
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10 Side By Side
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11 Back in your own backyard
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12 St. Louis Blues
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13 Dynamite
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14 Weep no more my baby
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15 Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
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16 (If I'm dreaming) Just let me dream
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17 Be My Love Again
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18 My Baby Likes Western Guys
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19 Sweet nothin's
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20 I'm Sorry
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21 That's all you gotta do
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22 Heading Home
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23 Wee Wee Willies
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24 Let's jump the broomstick
