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265:". These songs and several others rose to the top ten in the US and the UK through 1963. Many of her singles reached progressively lower positions as the 1960s progressed, but she continued having top 20 and top 40 singles. One of Lee's chart records from this period was "Truly, Truly True". It was included on 29: 284:. The album contained a total of 12 tracks. The album was named for its mix of material, most of which were covers. "Few singers have the gift of versatility and the voice to make the well-known standards of the past sound rich and fresh," read the 327:
rated the album two out of five stars without a written review provided. The album's only single was "Truly, Truly True", which was first issued by Decca in March 1965. That year, the single rose to the number 54 position on the US
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gave the album a less favorable response. "She certainly is versatile, as the album title suggests; she can perform badly in more styles than anybody I can think of."
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and was her twelfth studio album. The album was a collection of 12 tracks and was named for the album's mixed range of material. Of its songs was Lee's
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magazine who noted the album proves how Lee "can win a teen audience with current pop material and equally appeal to the adult market". Meanwhile,
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Brenda Lee had risen to stardom in her teens recording a variety of material. Beginning in the early 1960s, Lee recorded
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The album project was taken from sessions held between October 1964 and February 1965 at the
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was released on May 17, 1965, by Decca Records. The label distributed the album as a
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had her greatest commercial success with songs like "
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Index


Studio album
Brenda Lee
Columbia
Genre
Nashville Sound
pop
Label
Decca
Producer
Owen Bradley
Brenda Lee
Brenda Lee Sings Top Teen Hits
Too Many Rivers
Singles
Truly, Truly True
studio album
Brenda Lee
Decca Records
single
Truly, Truly True
pop music
I'm Sorry
I Want to Be Wanted
Break It to Me Gently
Columbia Studio
Nashville, Tennessee
Owen Bradley
liner notes
Don't Blame Me

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