Am I fool number one or am I fool number two?

Continuing my trip back through the 1963 album charts.

05/05/63 : Brenda, That's All - Brenda Lee

Skipping over another week (yes, they were still #1) brings us to our second visit with Brenda for the year - giving her 40% of all the albums featuring women this year. And I've no reason to expect that she won't do just as good a job as she did last time.

Yeah, there's nothing wrong with this - although it's not exactly spectacular. It's a solid offering though with decent enough songs and she's got a nice voice - and I think that's pretty much all I have to say about it - that is one fine 60s album cover though!

We're at #15 in the charts this week on the last week of a seven week run with it having peaked at #13. The top five this week were The Beatles (starting a THIRTY week run at the top (yes, that means that next week we're actually going to see someone else at #1 for the first time this year!), Cliff, Buddy, Frank Ifield and West Side Story with the highest new entry being Del Shannon (#9 - pretty high for this time).

Wikipedia tells you that this is her seventh album and the second she released in '62. Most of the tracks on the album are covers, but she didn't pick particularly well-known tracks, which was something AllMusic appreciated in their review - "not a scintillating record, but pretty good". It also charted in the US, getting to #20.

discogs.com tells us you can spend £4-£25 on this depending upon the quality - I'm intrigued as to how much interest there is in Brenda these days because whilst it is dated, I think it's done so nicely and it's an enjoyable listen (although, from my limited experience, I'm not sure this is absolutely her best work).

19/05/63 - Dated before it came out

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