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{{Infobox album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
{{Infobox album
| Name = ..."Let Me Sing"
| name = ..."Let Me Sing"
| Type = studio
| type = studio
| Artist = [[Brenda Lee]]
| artist = [[Brenda Lee]]
| Cover = Brenda Lee-Let Me Sing.jpg
| cover = Brenda Lee-Let Me Sing.jpg
| Released = September 12, 1963
| alt =
| released = December 9, 1963
| Recorded = August 20, 1961&nbsp;– May 29, 1963<ref name="disc">{{cite web|title=Brenda Lee's recording sessions|url=http://countrydiscography.blogspot.com/2010/01/brenda-lee.html|publisher=''Praguefrank's Country Music''|accessdate=28 June 2010}}</ref>
| recorded = August 20, 1961&nbsp;– May 29, 1963<ref name="disc">{{cite web|title=Brenda Lee's recording sessions |url=http://countrydiscography.blogspot.com/2010/01/brenda-lee.html |publisher=Praguefrank's Country Music |accessdate=28 June 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708032552/http://countrydiscography.blogspot.com/2010/01/brenda-lee.html |archivedate=8 July 2011 }}</ref>
| Genre = [[Pop music|Pop]], [[Nashville Sound]]
| Length =
| venue =
| Label = [[Decca Records|Decca]]
| studio = [[Bradley Studios]] (Nashville, Tennessee)
| Producer = [[Owen Bradley]]
| genre =
| Reviews =
| length =
| label = [[Decca Records|Decca]]
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* ''[[Allmusic]]'' {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="review">{{cite web|last=Adams|first=Greg|title=''..."Let Me Sing"'' Review|url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=r62473/review|pure_url=yes}}|publisher=[[Allmusic]]|accessdate=28 June 2010}}</ref>
| producer = [[Owen Bradley]]
| Last album = ''[[All Alone Am I (album)|All Alone Am I]]''<br/>(1963)
| prev_title = [[All Alone Am I (album)|All Alone Am I]]
| This album = ''..."Let Me Sing"''<br/>(1963)
| Next album = ''Love You''<br/>(1963)
| prev_year = 1963
| next_title = [[By Request (Brenda Lee album)|By Request]]
| Misc =
| next_year = 1964
{{ Singles
| Name = ..."Let Me Sing"
| misc = {{Singles
| Type = studio
| name = ..."Let Me Sing"
| Single 1 = [[Break It to Me Gently]]
| type = studio
| single1 = [[Break It to Me Gently]]
| Single 1 date = January 1962
| Single 2 = Losing You
| single1date = January 1962
| single2 = [[Losing You (Brenda Lee song)|Losing You]]
| Single 2 date = April 1963
| single2date = April 1963
}}
}}
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
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'''''..."Let Me Sing"''''' is the ninth studio album by American [[Pop music|pop]] and [[Country music|country]] artist [[Brenda Lee]]. The album was released September 12, 1963 on [[Decca Records]] and was produced by [[Owen Bradley]]. The album was the second and final album studio album released by Brenda Lee in 1963.
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
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| rev1Score ={{rating|3|5}}<ref name="review">{{cite web|last=Adams|first=Greg|title=''..."Let Me Sing"'' Review|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r62473/review|pure_url=yes}}|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|accessdate=28 June 2010}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[New Record Mirror]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |last= Watson|first= Jimmy |date=12 October 1963 |title=Brenda Lee: ''Let Me Sing'' |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/63/Record-Mirror-1963-10-12-S-OCR.pdf |magazine=[[New Record Mirror]] |issue=135 |page=10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401224906/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/63/Record-Mirror-1963-10-12-S-OCR.pdf|archive-date=1 April 2022|access-date=6 August 2022}}</ref>
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'''''..."Let Me Sing"''''' is the ninth studio album by American singer [[Brenda Lee]]. The album was released December 9, 1963, on [[Decca Records]] and was produced by [[Owen Bradley]]. The album was the second and final album studio album released by Brenda Lee in 1963.


== Background and content ==
== Background and content ==
''..."Let Me Sing"'' was recorded in five separate recording sessions between August 20, 1961 and May 29, 1963 at the [[Bradley Film and Recording Studio]] in [[Nashville, Tennessee]], [[United States]] under the direction of producer Owen Bradley.<ref name="disc"/> ''..."Let Me Sing"'' contained twelve tracks like all of her previous albums and contained many cover versions of Pop music songs and standards. The album remakes included "[[Night and Day (song)|Night and Day]]" by [[Cole Porter]], [[Bobby Darin]]'s "[[You're the Reason I'm Leaving]]", "[[At Last]]" which was recently covered by [[Etta James]], and "[[The End of the World (Skeeter Davis song)|End of the World]]" by [[Skeeter Davis]]. Unlike Lee's previous release of 1963, ''..."Let Me Sing"'' contained more recent cover versions of pop songs, mainly from the late 1950s and early 1960s. Greg Adams of ''[[Allmusic]]'' called the album's use of Pop standards to sound "fresh" unlike her prior releases. Adams reviewed the album and gave it three out of five stars. Adams stated, "''..."Let Me Sing"'' manages to sound vital where very similar albums failed later in her career. Not surprisingly, Let Me Sing was also Lee's second-to-last Top 40 album."<ref name="review"/> The album was originally released on a [[Gramophone record|45 RPM]] [[LP record]] upon its initial release, containing six songs on the "A-side" of the record and six songs on the "B-side" of the record.<ref>{{cite web|title=''..."Let Me Sing"'' by Brenda Lee|url=http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/brenda_lee/___let_me_sing_f2/|publisher=[[Rate Your Music]]|accessdate=28 June 2010}}</ref> The album has since been reissued on a compact disc in both Paraguay and Japan.<ref>{{cite web|title=''..."Let Me Sing"''|url=http://www.brendalee.co.uk/|publisher=Brenda Lee.com|accessdate=28 June 2010}}</ref>
''..."Let Me Sing"'' was recorded in five separate recording sessions between August 20, 1961, and May 29, 1963, at the [[Bradley Film and Recording Studio]] in [[Nashville, Tennessee]], [[United States]] under the direction of producer Owen Bradley.<ref name="disc"/> ''..."Let Me Sing"'' contained twelve tracks like all of her previous albums and contained many cover versions of Pop music songs and standards. The album remakes included "[[Night and Day (song)|Night and Day]]" by [[Cole Porter]], [[Bobby Darin]]'s "[[You're the Reason I'm Living]]", "[[At Last]]" which was recently covered by [[Etta James]], and "[[The End of the World (Skeeter Davis song)|End of the World]]" by [[Skeeter Davis]]. Unlike Lee's previous release of 1963, ''..."Let Me Sing"'' contained more recent cover versions of pop songs, mainly from the late 1950s and early 1960s. Greg Adams of [[AllMusic]] called the album's use of Pop standards to sound "fresh" unlike her prior releases. Adams reviewed the album and gave it three out of five stars. Adams stated, "''..."Let Me Sing"'' manages to sound vital where very similar albums failed later in her career. Not surprisingly, Let Me Sing was also Lee's second-to-last Top 40 album."<ref name="review"/> The album was originally released on a [[Gramophone record|{{frac|33|1|3}} rpm]] [[LP record]] upon its initial release, containing six songs on the "A-side" of the record and six songs on the "B-side" of the record.<ref>{{cite web|title=''..."Let Me Sing"'' by Brenda Lee|url=http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/brenda_lee/___let_me_sing_f2/|publisher=[[Rate Your Music]]|accessdate=28 June 2010}}</ref> The album has since been reissued on a compact disc in both Paraguay and Japan.<ref>{{cite web|title=''..."Let Me Sing"'' |url=http://www.brendalee.co.uk/ |publisher=Brenda Lee.com |accessdate=28 June 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100414011341/http://www.brendalee.co.uk/ |archivedate=14 April 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref>


== Release ==
== Release ==
''..."Let Me Sing"'' released its first single over a year before its initial release. The first single "[[Break It to Me Gently]]" was released in January 1962, peaking at #4 on the [[Billboard Hot 100]]<ref name="americansingles">{{cite web|title=Billboard chart positions > singles|url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p97335/charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}}|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=28 June 2010}}</ref> and #46 on the [[UK Singles Chart]] in the United Kingdom.<ref name="uksingles">{{cite web|title=Brenda Lee UK chart runs|url=http://www.polyhex.com/music/chartruns/chartruns.php|publisher=''Polyhex''}}</ref> Its second single "Losing You" was released one year later in April 1963. The single peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, #2 on the ''Billboard'' [[Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks|Easy Listening chart]], and #13 on the ''Billboard'' [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop songs|R&B chart]]. It became Lee's last single to chart on the R&B chart during her recording career.<ref name="americansingles"/> The single would also reach #10 on the UK Singles Chart.<ref name="uksingles"/> The album was officially released on September 12, 1963 on Decca Records, later peaking at #39 on the ''[[Billboard 200]]'' albums chart.<ref name="americanalbums">{{cite web|title=''..."Let Me Sing"'' > charts|url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=r62473/charts-awards|pure_url=yes}}|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=28 June 2010}}</ref>
''..."Let Me Sing"'' released its first single over a year before its initial release. The first single "[[Break It to Me Gently]]" was released in January 1962, peaking at #4 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]<ref name="americansingles">{{cite web|title=Billboard chart positions: singles|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p97335/charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}}|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=28 June 2010}}</ref> and #46 on the [[UK Singles Chart]] in the United Kingdom.<ref name="uksingles">{{cite web|title=Brenda Lee UK chart runs |url=http://www.polyhex.com/music/chartruns/chartruns.php |publisher=Polyhex |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207165154/http://www.polyhex.com/music/chartruns/chartruns.php |archivedate=2008-12-07 }}</ref> Its second single "[[Losing You (Brenda Lee song)|Losing You]]" was released one year later in April 1963. The single peaked at #6 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, #2 on the ''Billboard'' [[Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks|Easy Listening chart]], and #13 on the ''Billboard'' [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop songs|R&B chart]]. It became Lee's last single to chart on the R&B chart during her recording career.<ref name="americansingles"/> The single would also reach #10 on the UK Singles Chart.<ref name="uksingles"/> The album was officially released on December 9, 1963, on Decca Records, later peaking at #39 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] albums chart.<ref name="americanalbums">{{cite web|title=''..."Let Me Sing"'' > charts|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r62473/charts-awards|pure_url=yes}}|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=28 June 2010}}</ref>


== Track listing ==
== Track listing ==
;Side one
;Side one
#"Night and Day"&nbsp;– (Cole Porter) 2:33
#"[[Night and Day (song)|Night and Day]]"&nbsp;– ([[Cole Porter]]) 2:33
#"[[End of the World (song)|End of the World]]"&nbsp;– ([[Sylvia Dee]], Arthur Kent) 3:05
#"[[The End of the World (Skeeter Davis song)|End of the World]]"&nbsp;– ([[Sylvia Dee]], Arthur Kent) 3:05
#"[[Our Day Will Come]]"&nbsp;– ([[Mort Garson]], [[Bob Hilliard]]) 2:32
#"[[Our Day Will Come]]"&nbsp;– ([[Mort Garson]], [[Bob Hilliard]]) 2:32
#"[[You're the Reason I'm Living]]"&nbsp;– (Bobby Darin) 2:24
#"[[You're the Reason I'm Living]]"&nbsp;– (Bobby Darin) 2:24
#"Break It to Me Gently"&nbsp;– (Diane Lampert, [[Joe Seneca]]) 2:35
#"[[Break It to Me Gently]]"&nbsp;– (Diane Lampert, [[Joe Seneca]]) 2:35
#"Where Are You"&nbsp;– ([[Harold Adamson]], [[Jimmy McHugh]]) 2:59
#"[[Where Are You? (1937 song)|Where Are You?]]"&nbsp;– ([[Harold Adamson]], [[Jimmy McHugh]]) 2:59


;Side two
;Side two
#"[[When Your Lover Has Gone]]"&nbsp;– ([[Einar Aaron Swan]]) 2:09
#"[[When Your Lover Has Gone]]"&nbsp;– ([[Einar Aaron Swan]]) 2:09
#"Losing You"&nbsp;– (Pierre Havet, Jean Renard, [[Carl Sigman]]) 2:28
#"[[Losing You (Brenda Lee song)|Losing You]]"&nbsp;– (Pierre Havet, Jean Renard, [[Carl Sigman]]) 2:28
#"[[I Wanna Be Around]]"&nbsp;– ([[Johnny Mercer]], Sadie Vimmerstedt) 2:07
#"[[I Wanna Be Around]]"&nbsp;– ([[Johnny Mercer]], Sadie Vimmerstedt) 2:07
#"Out in the Cold Again"&nbsp;– (Ruby Bloom, [[Ted Koehler]]) 3:08
#"[[Out in the Cold Again]]"&nbsp;– ([[Rube Bloom]], [[Ted Koehler]]) 3:08
#"At Last"&nbsp;– ([[Mack Gordon]], [[Harry Warren]]) 2:18
#"[[At Last]]"&nbsp;– ([[Mack Gordon]], [[Harry Warren]]) 2:18
#"There Goes My Heart"&nbsp;– ([[Benny Davis]], [[Abner Silver]]) 2:47
#"There Goes My Heart"&nbsp;– ([[Benny Davis]], [[Abner Silver]]) 2:47


== Personnel ==
== Personnel ==
* Brenton Banks&nbsp;– strings
* Brenton Banks&nbsp;– strings
* [[Harold Bradley]]&nbsp;– [[guitar]]
* [[Harold Bradley (guitarist)|Harold Bradley]]&nbsp;– [[guitar]]
* Howard Carpenter&nbsp;– strings
* Howard Carpenter&nbsp;– strings
* [[Floyd Cramer]]&nbsp;– [[piano]]
* [[Floyd Cramer]]&nbsp;– [[piano]]
* Dottie Dillard&nbsp;– [[background vocals]]
* Dottie Dillard&nbsp;– [[background vocals]]
* Ray Edenton&nbsp;– guitar
* [[Ray Edenton]]&nbsp;– guitar
* [[Buddy Harman]]&nbsp;– [[drums]]
* [[Buddy Harman]]&nbsp;– [[drums]]
* Lillian Hunt&nbsp;– strings
* Lillian Hunt&nbsp;– strings
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* Brenda Lee&nbsp;– [[lead vocals]]
* Brenda Lee&nbsp;– [[lead vocals]]
* [[Grady Martin]]&nbsp;– guitar
* [[Grady Martin]]&nbsp;– guitar
* [[Bob Moore]]&nbsp;– [[bass (instrument)|bass]]
* [[Bob Moore (musician)|Bob Moore]]&nbsp;– [[bass (instrument)|bass]]
* Louis Nunley&nbsp;– background vocals
* Louis Nunley&nbsp;– background vocals
* [[Boots Randolph]]&nbsp;– [[saxophone]]
* [[Boots Randolph]]&nbsp;– [[saxophone]]
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! Peak<br>position
! Peak<br>position
|-
|-
| U.S. ''Billboard'' 200<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1964-01-25/|title=''Billboard'' 200: Week of January 25, 1964|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=November 29, 2023}}</ref>
| U.S. ''Billboard 200''<ref name="americanalbums"/>
| align="center"| 39
| align="center"| 39
|-
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|-
| 1963
| 1963
| align="left"| "Losing You"
| align="left"| "[[Losing You (Brenda Lee song)|Losing You]]"
| 6
| 6
| 2
| 2
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| align="center" colspan="6" style="font-size: 8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart
| align="center" colspan="6" style="font-size: 8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart
|-
|}

==Release history==
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!scope="col"| Date
!scope="col"| Format
!scope="col"| Label
!scope="col"| Ref.
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! scope="row"| North America
| December 9, 1963
| Vinyl LP
| Decca Records
| <ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lee |first1=Brenda |title=''..."Let Me Sing"'' (Liner Notes) |journal=[[Decca Records]] |date=December 9, 1963 |id=DL-74439}}</ref>
|-
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Latest revision as of 16:02, 4 September 2024

..."Let Me Sing"
Studio album by
Brenda Lee
ReleasedDecember 9, 1963
RecordedAugust 20, 1961 – May 29, 1963[1]
StudioBradley Studios (Nashville, Tennessee)
LabelDecca
ProducerOwen Bradley
Brenda Lee chronology
All Alone Am I
(1963) 		..."Let Me Sing"
(1963) 		By Request
(1964)
Singles from ..."Let Me Sing"
  1. "Break It to Me Gently"
    Released: January 1962
  2. "Losing You"
    Released: April 1963
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
New Record Mirror[3]

..."Let Me Sing" is the ninth studio album by American singer Brenda Lee. The album was released December 9, 1963, on Decca Records and was produced by Owen Bradley. The album was the second and final album studio album released by Brenda Lee in 1963.

Background and content

[edit]

..."Let Me Sing" was recorded in five separate recording sessions between August 20, 1961, and May 29, 1963, at the Bradley Film and Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, United States under the direction of producer Owen Bradley.[1] ..."Let Me Sing" contained twelve tracks like all of her previous albums and contained many cover versions of Pop music songs and standards. The album remakes included "Night and Day" by Cole Porter, Bobby Darin's "You're the Reason I'm Living", "At Last" which was recently covered by Etta James, and "End of the World" by Skeeter Davis. Unlike Lee's previous release of 1963, ..."Let Me Sing" contained more recent cover versions of pop songs, mainly from the late 1950s and early 1960s. Greg Adams of AllMusic called the album's use of Pop standards to sound "fresh" unlike her prior releases. Adams reviewed the album and gave it three out of five stars. Adams stated, "..."Let Me Sing" manages to sound vital where very similar albums failed later in her career. Not surprisingly, Let Me Sing was also Lee's second-to-last Top 40 album."[2] The album was originally released on a 33+1⁄3 rpm LP record upon its initial release, containing six songs on the "A-side" of the record and six songs on the "B-side" of the record.[4] The album has since been reissued on a compact disc in both Paraguay and Japan.[5]

Release

[edit]

..."Let Me Sing" released its first single over a year before its initial release. The first single "Break It to Me Gently" was released in January 1962, peaking at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100[6] and #46 on the UK Singles Chart in the United Kingdom.[7] Its second single "Losing You" was released one year later in April 1963. The single peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, #2 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart, and #13 on the Billboard R&B chart. It became Lee's last single to chart on the R&B chart during her recording career.[6] The single would also reach #10 on the UK Singles Chart.[7] The album was officially released on December 9, 1963, on Decca Records, later peaking at #39 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.[8]

Track listing

[edit]
Side one
  1. "Night and Day" – (Cole Porter) 2:33
  2. "End of the World" – (Sylvia Dee, Arthur Kent) 3:05
  3. "Our Day Will Come" – (Mort Garson, Bob Hilliard) 2:32
  4. "You're the Reason I'm Living" – (Bobby Darin) 2:24
  5. "Break It to Me Gently" – (Diane Lampert, Joe Seneca) 2:35
  6. "Where Are You?" – (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) 2:59
Side two
  1. "When Your Lover Has Gone" – (Einar Aaron Swan) 2:09
  2. "Losing You" – (Pierre Havet, Jean Renard, Carl Sigman) 2:28
  3. "I Wanna Be Around" – (Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstedt) 2:07
  4. "Out in the Cold Again" – (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) 3:08
  5. "At Last" – (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) 2:18
  6. "There Goes My Heart" – (Benny Davis, Abner Silver) 2:47

Personnel

[edit]

Sales chart positions

[edit]
Album
Chart (1963) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard 200[9] 39
Singles
Year Song Peak chart positions
US
[6] 		US AC
[6] 		US R&B
[6] 		UK
[7]
1962 "Break It to Me Gently" 4 — — 46
1963 "Losing You" 6 2 13 10
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Release history

[edit]
Release history and formats for ..."Let Me Sing"
Region Date Format Label Ref.
North America December 9, 1963 Vinyl LP Decca Records [10]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Brenda Lee's recording sessions". Praguefrank's Country Music. Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  2. ^ a b Adams, Greg. "..."Let Me Sing" Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  3. ^ Watson, Jimmy (12 October 1963). "Brenda Lee: Let Me Sing" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 135. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  4. ^ "..."Let Me Sing" by Brenda Lee". Rate Your Music. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  5. ^ "..."Let Me Sing"". Brenda Lee.com. Archived from the original on 14 April 2010. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Billboard chart positions: singles". Allmusic. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  7. ^ a b c "Brenda Lee UK chart runs". Polyhex. Archived from the original on 2008-12-07.
  8. ^ "..."Let Me Sing" > charts". Allmusic. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
  9. ^ "Billboard 200: Week of January 25, 1964". Billboard. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
  10. ^ Lee, Brenda (December 9, 1963). "..."Let Me Sing" (Liner Notes)". Decca Records. DL-74439.
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