THIS IS BRENDA
(Decca DL-74082)
October 10/1960
Produced by Owen Bradley
Grady Martin, Hank Garland - guitar
Harold Bradley - bass guitar
Bob Moore - bass
Buddy Emmons - steel
Douglas Kirkham, Buddy Harman - drums
Floyd Cramer - piano
Boots Randolph - sax
Vocals:
Dottie Dillard, Anita Kerr, Louis Nunley, Bill Wright
Recorded: 1959-1960, Bradley Film & Recording, Nashville
1.
WHEN MY DREAMBOAT COMES HOME
(Cliff Friend - Dave Franklin)
« © '56 WB Music, ASCAP »
When my dreamboat comes home then my dreams no more will roam
I will meet you and I'll greet you hold you closely my own
Moonlit waters will sing of the tender love you bring
We'll be sweethearts yes forever when my dreamboat comes home
[ sax ]
When my dream boat comes home...
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2.
I WANT TO BE WANTED
(Kim Gannon - Giuseppe Spotti - Alberto Testa)
« © '59 Universal Music, ASCAP »
(Wanted wanted)
Alone so alone that I could cry I want to be wanted
Alone watching lovers passing by I want to be wanted
When I am kissed I want his lips to really kiss me
When we're apart I want his heart to really miss me
I want to know he loves me so his eyes are misting
That's the way I want to be loved
Alone just my lonely heart knows how I want to be wanted
Right now not tomorrow but right now I want to be wanted
I want someone to share my love with and my dreams with
Someone I know I'd love to spend a million years with
Where is this someone somewhere meant for me
(Alone) just my lonely heart knows how I want to be wnated
(Right now) not tomorrow but right now I want to be wanted
I want someone to share my laughter and my tears with
Someone I know I'd love to spend a million years with
Where is this someone somewhere meant for me
(Someone somewhere) meant for me
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3.
JUST A LITTLE
(Betty Chotas)
« © '60 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
Umm Just a little just a little just a little
Don't you love me just a little don't you want me, just a little
Can't you thrill me just a little
Umm say you love me just a little just a little
Can't you kiss me just a little don't you miss me just a little
Don't you love me just a little
Umm say you want me just a little just a little
I told you baby a million times you're just about to make me lose my mind
I'm gettin' tired of playing second fiddle umm just a little
Say you love me just a little say you want me just a little
Can't you thrill me just a little umm say you love me
[ sax ]
I told you baby a million times you're just about to make me lose my mind
I'm gettin' tired of playing second fiddle umm just a little
Say you love me just a little say you want me just a little
Don't you love me just a little umm don't you need me just a little
(Just a little just a little just a little just a little)
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4.
PRETEND
(Lew Douglas - Cliff Parman - Frank LaVere - Dan Belloc)
« © '56 Music Sales, ASCAP »
Pretend you're happy when you're blue it isn't very hard to do
And you'll find happiness without an end whenever you pretend
Remember anyone can dream and nothing's bad as it may seem
The little things you haven't got could be a lot if you'd pretend
You'll find a love you can share one you can call all your own
Just close your eyes he'll be there you'll never be alone
And if you'll sing this melody you'll be pretending just like me
The world is mine it can be yours my friend so why don't you pretend
[ sax ]
And if you'll sing this melody...
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5.
LOVE AND LEARN
(Bob Montgomery - Earl Sinks)
« © '60 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Love and learn about the birds and bees and the flowers of the mystery
And if you really want to give yourself a blue love and learn about the blues
The rocky road is pretty hard to take
But you don't know nothing till your heart breaks
If you want to know how much you've got to lose love and learn about the blues
Love is a game where your life gets spoken
But the game gets rough when your heart get broken
You'll say at home a sittin' all alone waitin' for the doorbell or the telephone
Then you'll know about what everyone must learn
If you play around with love your will sure to get burned
So when you go to pick a guy be careful who you choose
Or you'll love and learn about the blues
[ sax ]
Love is a game where life gets spoken...
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6.
TEACH ME TONIGHT
(Sammy Cahn - Gene DePaul)
« © '59 Cahn Music, ASCAP / Hub Music, ASCAP »
Did you say I've got a lot to learn well don't think I'm not trying not to learn
Since this has been the perfect spot to learn teach me tonight
Starting with the ABC of it right down to the XYZ of it
Help me solve the mystery of it teach me tonight
The sky's a blackboard high above you if a shooting star goes by
I'll use that star to write I love you about a thousand times across the sky
One thing isn't very clear my love should the teacher stand so near my love
Graduations almost here my love teach me tonight
[ sax ]
One thing isn't very clear my love should the teacher stand so near my love
Graduations almost here my love teach me tonight
(Teach me teach me tonight)
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7.
HALLELUJAH I LOVE HIM SO
(Ray Charles)
« © '56 Unichappell Music, BMI »
Let me tell you bout a guy I know she's my baby and he lives next door
Every morning fore the sun comes up he brings my coffee in my favorite cup
That's why I know yes I know hallelujah I just love him so
When I'm in trouble and I have no friends I know he'll go with me untill the end
Everybody asks me how I know I smile at them and say he told me so
That's why I know yes I know hallelujah I just love him so
When I call him on the telephone and tell him that I'm all alone
By the time I count from one to four I hear him on my door
In the evening when the sun goes down when there is nobody else around
He kisses me and he holds me tight and tells me baby everything's all right
That's why I know yes I know hallelujah I just love him so
[ sax ]
When I call him on the telephone...
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8.
WALKIN' TO NEW ORLEANS
(Antonio Domino - Dave Bartholomew - Robert Guirdy)
« © '60 Unart Catalog, BMI »
This time I'm walkin' to New Orleans I'm walkin' to New Orleans
I'm gonna need two pair of shoes when I get to walkin' the blues
When I get back to New Orleans
I've got my suitcase in my hand now ain't that a shame
I'm leaving here today for I'm going back home to stay
Yes I'm walkin' to New Orleans
[ sax ]
You used to be my honey till you spent all my money
No use for you to cry I'll see you by and by
Because I'm walkin' to New Orleans
I've got no time for talking I've got to keep on walking
New Orleans is my home that's the reason why I'm gone
Yes I'm walkin' to New Orleans
Yes I'm walkin' to New Orleans yes I'm walkin' to New Orleans
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9.
BLUEBERRY HILL
(Al Lewis - Larry Stock - Vincent Rose)
« © '40 Chappell & Co, ASCAP / Larry Stock Music, ASCAP / Sovereign Music, ASCAP »
I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill on Blueberry Hill when I found you
The moon stood still on Blueberry Hill and linger until my dreams came true
Though the wind in the willows plays love's sweet melody
But all of those vows we made they were never to be
Though we're apart you're a part of me still
For you were my thrill on Blueberry Hill
[ sax ]
Though the wind in the willows plays...
For you were my thrill on Blueberry Hill
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10.
WE THREE (MY ECHO MY SHADOW AND ME)
(Dick Robertson - Nelso Cogane - Sammy Mysels)
« © '60 Edwin H Morris Co, ASCAP / Penn Music, ASCAP »
We three we're all alone living in a memory my echo my shadow and me
We three we're not a crowd we're not even company my echo my shadow and me
What good is the moonlight the silvery moonlight that shines above
I walk with my shadow I talk with my echo but where is the one I love
We three we'll wait for you even till eternity my echo my shadow and me
We three we're all alone living in a memory my echo my shadow and me
What good is the moonlight...
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11.
BUILD A BIG FENCE
(Chuck Taylor)
« © '60 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
Gonna build a big fence around my baby hum-hum oh yeah
Gonna build a big fence around my baby hum-hum oh yeah
I like everything that you do why honey that's why I'm in love with you
Gonna build a big fence around my baby so they can't steal my baby from me
I just love the way you sigh and the twinkle in your eye
There will never ever never be anyone else for me
For me (for me) for me (for me for me for me for me)
Gonna build a big fence...
Holy smokes and land sakes alive when he looks at me I get butterflies
Gonna build a big fence around my baby so they can't steal my baby from me
[ sax ]
I just love the way you sigh...
Gonna build a big fence...
I'll gonna build this fence up to the sky just for me and my little sugar pie
Gonna build a big fence around my baby so they can't steal him away from me
So they can't steal my baby from me so they can't steal my baby from me
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12.
IF I DIDN'T CARE
(Jack Lawrence)
« © '39 Range Road Music, ASCAP »
If I didn't care more than words can say
If I didn't care would I feel this way
If this isn't love then why do I thrill
And what makes my head go round and round while my heart stands still
If I didn't care would it be the same
Would my every prayer begin and end with just your name
And would I be sure that this is love beyond compare
Would all this be true if I didn't care for you
[ sax ]
And would I be sure that this...
( If I didn't care)
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