New York, NY (Top40 Charts) In honour of Valentine's Day, the legendary Brenda Lee's long out-of-print 1963 early career collection, aptly titled Love You!, is now available via MCA Nashville/UMe as an expanded digital Deluxe Edition with 20 incredibly rare tracks making their streaming debuts. With this release, every one of Lee's recordings that she made for Decca between 1956-62 are finally now available digitally. Listen to Love You! (Deluxe Edition) now: https://brendalee.lnk.to/LoveYouDeluxePR
Subtitled "Early hits that made her famous," Love You! was originally released in 1963 in the UK by Ace Of Hearts, Decca UK's label whose purpose was to release Decca's back catalog of US repertoire in the UK. The collection combined the A & B sides of non-album singles that were released in the US between 1957 and 1961, starting with "Love You Til I Die," the B-side to her hit "Dynamite," recorded by "Little Miss Dynamite" when she was just 12 years old. Some of the many highlights on the original collection include the rockabilly classics "Dynamite," "Ring-A-My Phone," "Rock-A-Bye Baby Blues," "Rock The Bop," "I'm Learning About Love," "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home" and "One Teenager To Another."
Love You! has now been expanded to include 20 additional non-album singles, rarities, and unissued recordings, all recorded between 1956 and 1962. The tracks, which have been released over the years on various international compilations of Lee's early years, including 1974's German compilation, The Legends Of Rock Vol. 2 Rare Items; 1984's UK collection, The Early Years; and Germany's Bear Family Records' 1995 comprehensive box set, Little Miss Dynamite, are all now available to stream for the first time. The new additions include many of Lee's earliest recordings such as her incredible cover of Hank Williams' "Your Cheatin' Heart," recorded in 1956 but not released for nearly three decades, as well several "alternate versions," "first versions" and "second versions" of tracks like "Bigelow 6-200," the B-side to her first single, "Jambalaya," the teenage heartbreaker, "Careless, That' All" and her take on the Ink Spots' classic "If I Didn't Care." Other standouts include "Some People," "Funny Feelin'," "Time Is Not Enough" and "Sweet Lovin'."
When Love You! was released in 1963, the essay on the album sleeve exclaimed about Brenda Lee, "Still in her teens, she can look back on a long, and continuous, succession of hit records," but the writer couldn't have known how right they were, as the future Rock and Roll and Country Hall of Famer was just getting started on what would become a more than seven decade career. Now Brendators and lovers of early rockabilly and country, can stream some of Lee's most formative recordings.
LOVE YOU! TRACKLISTING
DISC 1
1. Love You Till I Die (B-side to 1957 single "Dynamite")
2. Ring-A My Phone (1958 single A-side)
3. Hummin' The Blues Over You (B-side to 1958 single "Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home")
4. Rock A Bye Baby Blues (1957 single A-side)
5. Rock The Bop (B-side to 1957 single "Rock The Bop")
6. It's Never Too Late (B-side to 1961 single "You Can Depend On Me")
7. I'm Learning About Love (B-side to 1961 single "Emotions")
8. Bill Bailey Won't you Please Come Home (1958 single A-side)
9. Dynamite (1957 single A-side)
10. LittleJonah ( B-side to 1958 single "Ring-A-My-Phone")
11. One Teenager to Another (B-side to 1957 single "Ain't That Love")
12. Ain't That Love (1957 single A-side)
DISC 2
1. Bigelow 6-200 (Alternate Version) (unissued 1956 recording) ^
2. Some People (unissued 1956 recording) *
3. Your Cheatin' Heart (unissued 1956 recording) *
4. Doodle Bug Rag (unissued 1956 recording) **
5. Fairyland (1957 single B-side to "One Step At A Time")
6. The Golden Key (unissued 1958 recording) **
7. The Stroll (unissued 1959 recording) **
8. Careless, That's All (First Version) (unissued 1960 recording)
9. If I Didn't Care (First Version) (unissued 1960 recording)
10. Careless, That's All (Second version) (unissued 1961 recording) **
11. Tables Are Turning (unissued 1961) **
12. Funny Feelin' (unissued 1961 recording)
13. Let Me Be The One #095 (unissued 1961 recording)
14. Time Is Not Enough (unissued 1961 recording) **
15. Here Comes That Feeling (B-side to 1962 single "Everybody Loves Me But You")
16. Just Forget (unissued 1961 recording) **
17. Let The Four Winds Blow (unissued 1961) **
18. She'll Never Know (unissued 1962 recording)
19. It Takes One To Know One (unissued 1962 recording)
20. Sweet Lovin' (unissued 1962 recording)
^ first appeared on 1987 LP, Rockabilly Classics Vol. 2 (MCA)
* first appeared on 1984 LP, The Early Years (MCA UK)
** first appeared on 1974 LP, The Legends Of Rock Vol. 2 Rare Items (MCA Germany)
