Only a few studio musicians are listed in discographies. (See description) This makes me think that the strings were added later and the players were not identified.
Every time I listen to this song, it is more obvious to me what a watershed song it was for Brenda's career and while unappreciated by most, deserves to be on many Best Of lists for 1969. Fantastic tune that decisively transitioned her from pre-teen firecracker and teen pop star to successful adult singer. Thanks for sharing this.
I remember my Mum used to love to listen to Brenda Lee and she particularly loved 'Johnny One Time.' What a fantastic voice and what a fantastic song.......so sad and so poignant............
an@@akavitsuma It's about a girl who has given her virginity to a man who lied to her and told her that he loved her. The girl finds out that he is known for doing this sort of thing to lots of girls......hence his nickname....'Johnny One Time....' he uses girls just once and then leaves them .
Brenda's non-hits (e.g., "Talk of the Town"; "Prisoner's Song"), etc. are definite proof of her tremendous range and sensitivity for a song. She is a star high above the firmament. The more of her catalog of recordings I discover the more I become endeared to "Little Miss Dynamite".
Listen and pay attention to Brenda's amazing natural voice that is able to sing long phrases without a breath in the middle, and unlike recent performers that are tweaked on every note..
+davidrlfield She makes it look easy, but her songs are filled with little vocalizations. Only when you try to sing along ,as I do sometimes, do you realize the high degree of difficulty. "How did she manage that?" , I ask myself as I fall several words behind....
Mostly Brenda because for her it is easy! I think many people try to sing along but cannot match the richness and intensity of her singing voice. You have to be born with it , I guess. ~ I can only name Judy Garland and Adelle with that same ability.
+davidrlfield Judy was Brenda's idol and when they were both in Las Vegas in the sixties, Brenda requested a meeting. She didn't want to just barge in backstage after a performance. They met at the hotel pool. Judy, much to Brenda's surprise, knew her songs! Probably Liza was buying and playing them at home. Judy's advice: "Don't let them take away your childhood." Little did she know that Brenda already had 15 years and thousands of performances under her belt.
I got this song on brenda Lee's greatest hits. It's the first song on the CD. This women can sing almost anything . Every song on the CD is perfect... l love them all!!!! I will tell you for a petite young lady, brenda was born with country rhythm and soul!!!!! That's why 3 generations from 1959 to the present of my folks bought her records...and on and on she's the best!
I've come to appreciate her creativity. When she does an older song, it is transformed into something new. There is technical perfection for sure, but not mentioned much is her amazing interpretive skill. Even "Johnny" comes out differently in our other video of it.
I remember listening to this classic by Brenda Lee in Phoenix, AZ on 55 KOY a one-time prominent MOR station. Thanks for sharing this one from "Little Miss Dynamite"
It wasn't a big hit in 1969, but it is one of those records that is now held in higher regard than 50 years ago. This is a lip-synch, but I love the live version she did on the Johnny Cash show where she actually changes the meaning of the song. See th-cam.com/video/TK-DOR2qfAE/w-d-xo.html
@@MostlyBrenda - Where this was "big" was the Easy Listening chart, peaking at #3. And she didn't do too shabbily if her nomination for Best Female Vocal Pop Performance at the 1969 Grammys is of indication.
I love me some Brenda Lee even though I am only 51 I wish to god I would have been older to go to concerts back in the day when she was at her prime. I still have this orginal on a 45 I will always keep and cherish
When voice quality mattered! There were some greats and a lots of good ones. If I listed the top 100 from the 50s-60s, the best singer today would probably be 101. Yes I know that I sound like an old fogy.
@Timwgtn You are welcome and thanks for your comment. It's quite gratifying that this song, which was not a big hit even in the states, has only grown in stature over the years. It gives me hope that quality wins out in the end.
What a voice from the era when songs were sung by 'Singers' .. In other words no Lip Sync mumbo jumbo or such . Also don't forget the simple backing music by 'Musicians' and not some dub over or whatever they use now or call it now days days . I am so proud to have grown up in such a time & to have been able to enjoy such 'Music" along with the great singers . Peggy Wood. (Aotearoa)
I remember seeing her on TV at this time. I also remember my oldest sister’s hairdo was similar to Brenda’s back at that time. She has her hair like this in her high school picture in 1967, and I loved that pic of my sis. Miss you Colleen 😇🥰‼️
Brenda often shopped in the girls department and everything went to a seamstress for alterations due to her special size. Here she is pregnant with her 2nd child, but she was still out promoting a recording. The baby was named Jolie and will be 54 this year. She once posted on one of my videos.
In diesem Schlager hat Brenda Lee ihre vielseitige Moeglichkeiten gezeigt, das heisst ihre warme tiefe Stimme, die fuer das Herz greift. Sehr, sehr beruehrend.
Brenda toujours aussi superbe, avec cette voix, qui surprend par ses intonations. Brenda Lee, c'est une grande Dame, qui comme Elvis à toujours été égale à elle même. Grand Marci pour toutes ces chansons, ....
Thanks for the viewing and commenting. We have Brenda's fabulous live performance of "I Think" on the channel. Just search for “Brenda Lee - I Think I Love You Again” to see it. For the record, Johnny was recorded in 1968 and released in 1969. "I Think" was recorded and released in 1970.
Even more amazing, "Johnny" was recorded in New York City (at Columbia's fabled 30th Street studio, in spite of her being signed to Decca). Yet it would be the beginning of her transition to the country charts, making #50 there.
Time for a 100K view post. This time we'll pay tribute to the songwriter, Dallas Frazier. Perhaps you will be surprised at the number of recognizable songs he wrote or co-wrote. Here is a list of his hits: Songs written or co-written by Dallas Frazier: "Alley Oop" - Hollywood Argyles (1960) "Mohair Sam" - Charlie Rich (1965) "There Goes My Everything" - Jack Greene (1966), Englebert Humperdinck (1967) "Ain't Had No Lovin'" - Connie Smith (1966) "If My Heart Had Windows" - George Jones (1967) "Johnny One-Time" - Brenda Lee (1968), Willie Nelson "Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp" - O.C. Smith (1968) "All I Have to Offer You Is Me" - Charley Pride (1969) "Touching Home" - Jerry Lee Lewis (1971) "The Baptism of Jesse Taylor" - Oak Ridge Boys, Johnny Russell "Elvira" - Oak Ridge Boys (1980) - First released by Frazier in 1966 "Fourteen Carat Mind" - Co-writer: Larry Lee - Gene Watson (1981) "What's Your Mama's Name Child?" - Tanya Tucker (1973) "If This Is Our Last Time" - Brenda Lee (1971) "Say It's Not You" - George Jones (1968) "(I'm So) Afraid of Losing You Again" - Charley Pride (1969) "Until My Dreams Come True" - Jack Greene (1969) "I'm a People" - George Jones (1966) Frazier left show biz in 1988 and became a minister. In 2011, the retired Frazier released an album "Writing & Singing Again", It was his first album since 1971.
While this may have been Brenda's last real hit on what is called the pop charts, just for history, "You Don't Need Me Anymore/Bring Me Sunshine" went to #84 in 1969, "I Think I Love You Again"/"Hello Love" at #94 in 1970 and the last was "Nobody Wins" at #70 in 1973. What's important is this gradually fed Brenda over onto the country charts. In 1971 "If This Is Our Last Time"/"Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone" was her second country hit at #30, then in 1972 she had two country hits, but "Nobody Wins" in 1973 was her major country hit at #5, along with "Sunday Sunrise" #6. In 1974 she had three top ten country hits. By then she was "country" and charted many hits until 1985, including top tens, "He's My Rock", "Tell Me What It's Like", "The Cowgirl and the Dandy", and "Broken Trust". Of course, she had many songs on AC charts, and Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" charted year after year.
@SelenaWildenstein Thanks for the comment. BTW - Happy Birthday to Brenda Lee! She stills sings better than today's "stars". Look up Taylor Swift trying to sing Brenda's "I'm Sorry". Yikes! I could not make all way through that video.
@maplover1 Thanks! I had the wrong recording date in the description. The label was sending her to different producers, trying to re-capture the magic. There was New Orleans with Pete Fountain, New York for Johnny and then Memphis for "Portrait". Three consecutive albums made outside of Nashville.
Actually, a few songs charted after Johnny. "Nobody Wins" which reached #70 on the Hot 100 in 1973 was the last. The perennial "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" still pops up occasionally on the charts. It reached #76on the UK chart in 2008, just 16 months ago. Brenda was inducted into the R&R HOF in 2002. She is the only female in both major halls.
The record companies don't usually own the videos. They are often old TV shows. Sometimes there are compilation DVDs like those from the Ed Sullivan show, but more often they are unavailable, but copyrighted - a frustrating situation.
About the same time that this song was recorded Brenda recorded a song called "I Think I Love You Again." If you are a Brenda Lee fan, and you have not heard this recording you are missing something and you are not alone. The song is almost impossible to find. It is not included on any of her hit compilations in any form. In fact, as far as I know it appears on only one "rare album called "Memphis Portrait" and as a 45 rpm. This rare record is amazing.
I think that the recording companies are missing out on a huge cash cow. Yes, the songs are popular, but what i truly enjoy is "seeing" the artists as they looked back then. The nostalgia and the imagery are potent and I "would" buy it, if it were available for purchase.
On this day in 1973 {June 22nd} Maxine Weldon performed "Johnny One Time" on the NBC-TV program 'The Midnight Special'... Four years earlier on February 2nd, 1969 Brenda Lee entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart with her version of the song; eventually her version peaked at #41 and stay on the chart for 11 weeks... And on March 23rd, 1969 it reached #3 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart; the two records that prevented it from reaching #1 were; "Galveston" by Glen Campbell {#1} and "You Gave Me a Mountain" by Frankie Laine {#2}... 'Little Miss Dynamite', born Brenda Mae Tarpley, will celebrate her 71st birthday this coming December 11th {2015}...
Mostly Brenda Thanks for the reply and the info on Susan Raye, I've always enjoyed her... Between 1969 and 1986 she had twenty-nine* hits on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart; seven made the Top 10 with "(I've Got A) Happy Heart" being her biggest hit, it peaked at #3 in 1971... * Six of her entries on the Hot Country Singles chart were duets with Buck Owens... Thanks again...
In addition to the beautiful voice? This song captures perfectly the emotions a woman must feel the morning after a "one-night stand"...all the "shattered pride" and "broken heart" and promises made that never had any intention of being kept. Not trying to 'brag" on myself -- back some 25 years ago -- but I was one of those "Johnny One Times". I would say anything and do anything, to get "laid", and if I felt any guilt at all, it was only fleeting. It is nothing in the least I am proud of...it was shameful. It took years and developing a bit of wisdom -- having children, especially a daughter -- that I came to see CLEARLY see that I had -- in the whole scheme of things -- MUCH less actual "pride" than "they" did. After all, I was the one who lied, cheated, and stole, to get what I wanted. How much "pride" -- if one has any self-respect at all -- can one glean from THAT....?
"Johnny One Time - Decca 32428 - The past Willie Nelson country hit ballad penned by Dallas Frazier serves as a strong commercial pop entry for the stylist. This could easly prove a top chart item for her. Flip: 'I Must Have Been Out Of My Mind'.” (Billboard, Dec. 28, 1968, p. 51)
Funny, though - in a reverse situation, Brenda did an early recording of "Always On My Mind" a decade before Mr. Nelson had his biggest solo hit on the "pops" with it.
Brenda could balance her family and all the a sundry elements of womanhood with an easy grace. Performing schedules and the demands of life in general can tax anyone. It just goes to show that a genius can be beautiful as well.
Yes agree so much.. For the trash these so called 'Artists" peddle out they should be made to sit & listen to this a other similar songs they are called MUSIC maybe methinks (hopes) they may learn something ..Peggy Wood
Yes I agree with you, Brenda has always been my favorite singer of all-time, I love Patsy Cline, I've always felt it a awful shame not only of Patsy's death but to that her and Brenda Lees friendship was cut short in the beginning of Brenda's career. Love you Brenda..
This was always my favorite song by her. She had a slew of both pop and country hits but this one didn't do too well on either chart. I guess it wasn't enough of either format.
Yet, it made #3 on the A/C (then known as Easy Listening) chart. More important, it netted Ms. Lee a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (in company with fellow nominees including Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield, Vikki Carr, Jackie DeShannon - and the eventual winner, Peggy Lee, who'd win for "Is That All There Is"). It also made the Top 30 of Cash Box and the Top 40 of Record World. To be in the same category with those famous names, you have to be that good. And Brenda, on here, certainly was.
There are relatively few songs they both did. I once put together a playlist and eventually found only six tunes: th-cam.com/play/PL1r0QjAQ0mWQjGB-tTk_h7jgYQLV1n6Lw.html
![Brenda Lee - All Alone Am I (1963) [HQ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/JJHvYU_y6xQ/mqdefault.jpg)
One of the best singers of the whole world
She nailed this song. To me it's her number 1 song
I thought fool number one was my favourite ❤
She nailed this one
Brenda will never have a "last" chart hit as long as Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree keeps charting every year.
I love her voice. This is a great song.
I HAVE THIS SONG ON REPLAY 😀🎶
The background music 🎼 is just perfect 😍 for this!
Only a few studio musicians are listed in discographies. (See description) This makes me think that the strings were added later and the players were not identified.
i think Brenda could sing the phone book & she would make it beautiful.❤❤
Her songs are just the prettiest and deepest of this genre in this era....
What a voice from a 4' 10" frame! Brenda is one of the greats of the past 60 years.
Every time I listen to this song, it is more obvious to me what a watershed song it was for Brenda's career and while unappreciated by most, deserves to be on many Best Of lists for 1969. Fantastic tune that decisively transitioned her from pre-teen firecracker and teen pop star to successful adult singer. Thanks for sharing this.
Well put; thanks.
I agree
she sang from the heart, great voice, nothing like it today.
So very true . Well written....Peggy Wood
This song is a classic . Brenda killed it.
Johnny one time holds true today ❤
My daughter met a couple of them already and wish she knew the song before it all happened now
ONE TIMER'S DO IT WITHOUT ANY LOVE 8-((
I love this song. I play it over and over and I never get tired of hearing it. I only heard it about a month or 2 ago.
A voice that just can't be imitated. Love her natural ability to sing.
Stunning, soulful recording by Brenda Lee!
We had this 45 rpm record. Practically wore it out!
THIS IS WHY I ENJOY GREAT MUSIC💙🎶
Brenda Lee cant be replaced, she is a dynamo and greatly appreciated & missed.
I love to hear her sing, her voice is unique and beautiful.
You know what I love to hear Brenda Lee sing ANYTHING!!!
Brenda Lee has been a favorite of mine since the 60s. Saw her a couple of years ago in Pigeon Forge TN. She’s still rocking it.
This song was popular when I was a senior, I just recently went to my 50th reunion! What wonderful memories!
I remember my Mum used to love to listen to Brenda Lee and she particularly loved 'Johnny One Time.' What a fantastic voice and what a fantastic song.......so sad and so poignant............
yes its a great song but what is the meaning behind it do you know?
an@@akavitsuma It's about a girl who has given her virginity to a man who lied to her and told her that he loved her. The girl finds out that he is known for doing this sort of thing to lots of girls......hence his nickname....'Johnny One Time....' he uses girls just once and then leaves them .
Thanks for explaining it makes it clear now.
thanks for making it clear. well I hate guys who use girls like that but in the end it catches up with them.
killer awesome
Brenda's non-hits (e.g., "Talk of the Town"; "Prisoner's Song"), etc. are definite proof of her tremendous range and sensitivity for a song. She is a star high above the firmament. The more of her catalog of recordings I discover the more I become endeared to "Little Miss Dynamite".
Everyone praises her voice, but she is also great interpreter and that, IMHO, is what puts her near the top of the list.
Listen and pay attention to Brenda's amazing natural voice that is able to sing long phrases without a breath in the middle, and unlike recent performers that are tweaked on every note..
+davidrlfield She makes it look easy, but her songs are filled with little vocalizations. Only when you try to sing along ,as I do sometimes, do you realize the high degree of difficulty. "How did she manage that?" , I ask myself as I fall several words behind....
Mostly Brenda because for her it is easy! I think many people try to sing along but cannot match the richness and intensity of her singing voice. You have to be born with it , I guess. ~ I can only name Judy Garland and Adelle with that same ability.
+davidrlfield Judy was Brenda's idol and when they were both in Las Vegas in the sixties, Brenda requested a meeting. She didn't want to just barge in backstage after a performance. They met at the hotel pool. Judy, much to Brenda's surprise, knew her songs! Probably Liza was buying and playing them at home. Judy's advice: "Don't let them take away your childhood." Little did she know that Brenda already had 15 years and thousands of performances under her belt.
great observation...i like Helen Shapiro more jazzy jive see her in "My Guy" 1966
I got this song on brenda Lee's greatest hits. It's the first song on the CD. This women can sing almost anything . Every song on the CD is perfect... l love them all!!!! I will tell you for a petite young lady, brenda was born with country rhythm and soul!!!!! That's why 3 generations from 1959 to the present of my folks bought her records...and on and on she's the best!
I've come to appreciate her creativity. When she does an older song, it is transformed into something new. There is technical perfection for sure, but not mentioned much is her amazing interpretive skill. Even "Johnny" comes out differently in our other video of it.
in this life if you listen to music ,you will encounter some legends ,BRENDA LEE is one of them.
I remember listening to this classic by Brenda Lee in Phoenix, AZ on 55 KOY a one-time prominent MOR station. Thanks for sharing this one from "Little Miss Dynamite"
It wasn't a big hit in 1969, but it is one of those records that is now held in higher regard than 50 years ago. This is a lip-synch, but I love the live version she did on the Johnny Cash show where she actually changes the meaning of the song. See th-cam.com/video/TK-DOR2qfAE/w-d-xo.html
@@MostlyBrenda - Where this was "big" was the Easy Listening chart, peaking at #3. And she didn't do too shabbily if her nomination for Best Female Vocal Pop Performance at the 1969 Grammys is of indication.
I love me some Brenda Lee even though I am only 51 I wish to god I would have been older to go to concerts back in the day when she was at her prime. I still have this orginal on a 45 I will always keep and cherish
Still sounds great all these years.I haven't heard this song since 1969. wow
Perhaps Brenda Lee's greatest hit. A sound that you won't ever hear again in today's music. Joe S.
Glad I was around to hear Brenda Lee, Judith Durham & Stevie Nicks, They don't get much better in My book.
When voice quality mattered! There were some greats and a lots of good ones. If I listed the top 100 from the 50s-60s, the best singer today would probably be 101. Yes I know that I sound like an old fogy.
still a very strong voice. with a specific timbre! and i love that voice.
Let my daughter listen to this, she really liked it. She got a kick out of her 'doo'.
Beautiful. I first heard the Swedish version, Casanova.
Many men recorded the song. And that surprises me.
Love Brenda and her voice. She did a great cover of Thomas Wayne's "Tragedy" !
Yes, I would encourage everyone to not listen to her hits! There are another 200 songs that are well worth hearing and often ignored.
Mothers-please educate your daughters about this character-he may still be out there !!!!
Still of the best Country singers of all time.
2020 STILL BRINGS ME HERE.. L♡VE 💙
2023 & FOREVER STILL BRINGS ME BACK 💙
no matter what brenda sings she brings a beautiful unique ness to her voice and song sign of a one of a kind
And she can still sound this great! Plus, she looks a lot the same after all these years. A true Artist!!
From the best period of music...Brenda, Waylon ,Willie and lots of more great artists did great music in the 1960's
No bullshit here , just great talent
2021 brings me here and This for me is her best recording.
Congratulations from New Zealand 🇳🇿👏❤
@Timwgtn You are welcome and thanks for your comment. It's quite gratifying that this song, which was not a big hit even in the states, has only grown in stature over the years. It gives me hope that quality wins out in the end.
Excelente y maravillosa mujer con sus canciones y muy especialmente en su vida personal perfecta. Saludos desde Venezuela.
Still love this song...!!!
What a voice from the era when songs were sung by 'Singers' .. In other words no Lip Sync mumbo jumbo or such . Also don't forget the simple backing music by 'Musicians' and not some dub over or whatever they use now or call it now days days . I am so proud to have grown up in such a time & to have been able to enjoy such 'Music" along with the great singers . Peggy Wood. (Aotearoa)
I remember seeing her on TV at this time. I also remember my oldest sister’s hairdo was similar to Brenda’s back at that time. She has her hair like this in her high school picture in 1967, and I loved that pic of my sis. Miss you Colleen 😇🥰‼️
Thank you, Rock, for getting me onto this channel. Happy days!
I love her dresses from the prior years ❤😂🎉
Brenda often shopped in the girls department and everything went to a seamstress for alterations due to her special size. Here she is pregnant with her 2nd child, but she was still out promoting a recording. The baby was named Jolie and will be 54 this year. She once posted on one of my videos.
SHE ALWAYS LOOKED ELEGANT (SWEET)
In diesem Schlager hat Brenda Lee ihre vielseitige Moeglichkeiten gezeigt, das heisst
ihre warme tiefe Stimme, die fuer das Herz greift. Sehr, sehr beruehrend.
thanks for posting this. Reminds me of my dad picking me up after school in '69 in his old blue truck.
Wonderful!
Brenda toujours aussi superbe, avec cette voix, qui surprend par ses intonations. Brenda Lee, c'est une grande Dame, qui comme Elvis à toujours été égale à elle même. Grand Marci pour toutes ces chansons, ....
I love her ❤
I forgot how good she was.........my God......
déén van de beste zangeressen die er is, was of ooit zal zijn!!!!!!!
i was 16 years on my own and played this song at the truck stop at marshall missouri when i worked at stamper foods
Thanks for the video and this wonderful song.
Thanks for the viewing and commenting. We have Brenda's fabulous live performance of "I Think" on the channel. Just search for “Brenda Lee - I Think I Love You Again” to see it.
For the record, Johnny was recorded in 1968 and released in 1969. "I Think" was recorded and released in 1970.
Even more amazing, "Johnny" was recorded in New York City (at Columbia's fabled 30th Street studio, in spite of her being signed to Decca). Yet it would be the beginning of her transition to the country charts, making #50 there.
I believe that every woman has had a Johnny One Time at least once in her life
+Bobbie LaVanway
Yes, and I'm not at all proud to say that I was that "Johnny One Time" WAY too often.
+Bobbie LaVanway Hi Bobbie. Yep I agree........it is a VERY lucky Woman who has never met a 'Johnny One Time' in her life.
Time for a 100K view post. This time we'll pay tribute to the songwriter, Dallas Frazier. Perhaps you will be surprised at the number of recognizable songs he wrote or co-wrote. Here is a list of his hits:
Songs written or co-written by Dallas Frazier:
"Alley Oop" - Hollywood Argyles (1960)
"Mohair Sam" - Charlie Rich (1965)
"There Goes My Everything" - Jack Greene (1966), Englebert Humperdinck (1967)
"Ain't Had No Lovin'" - Connie Smith (1966)
"If My Heart Had Windows" - George Jones (1967)
"Johnny One-Time" - Brenda Lee (1968), Willie Nelson
"Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp" - O.C. Smith (1968)
"All I Have to Offer You Is Me" - Charley Pride (1969)
"Touching Home" - Jerry Lee Lewis (1971)
"The Baptism of Jesse Taylor" - Oak Ridge Boys, Johnny Russell
"Elvira" - Oak Ridge Boys (1980) - First released by Frazier in 1966
"Fourteen Carat Mind" - Co-writer: Larry Lee - Gene Watson (1981)
"What's Your Mama's Name Child?" - Tanya Tucker (1973)
"If This Is Our Last Time" - Brenda Lee (1971)
"Say It's Not You" - George Jones (1968)
"(I'm So) Afraid of Losing You Again" - Charley Pride (1969)
"Until My Dreams Come True" - Jack Greene (1969)
"I'm a People" - George Jones (1966)
Frazier left show biz in 1988 and became a minister. In 2011, the retired Frazier released an album "Writing & Singing Again", It was his first album since 1971.
While this may have been Brenda's last real hit on what is called the pop charts, just for history, "You Don't Need Me Anymore/Bring Me Sunshine" went to #84 in 1969, "I Think I Love You Again"/"Hello Love" at #94 in 1970 and the last was "Nobody Wins" at #70 in 1973. What's important is this gradually fed Brenda over onto the country charts.
In 1971 "If This Is Our Last Time"/"Everybody's Reaching Out For Someone" was her second country hit at #30, then in 1972 she had two country hits, but "Nobody Wins" in 1973 was her major country hit at #5, along with "Sunday Sunrise" #6. In 1974 she had three top ten country hits. By then she was "country" and charted many hits until 1985,
including top tens, "He's My Rock", "Tell Me What It's Like", "The Cowgirl and the Dandy", and "Broken Trust". Of course, she had many songs on AC charts, and Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" charted year after year.
You don't mention her biggest country hit... Big Four Poster Bed (#4).
@@IAtodd - I have that one. Written by Shel Silverstein. First heard in on a Pennsylvania country station in '82.
Still got my 45 of this from 1969. It is a classic.
@SelenaWildenstein Thanks for the comment. BTW - Happy Birthday to Brenda Lee! She stills sings better than today's "stars". Look up Taylor Swift trying to sing Brenda's "I'm Sorry". Yikes! I could not make all way through that video.
golden earring made me a fan !
@maplover1 Thanks! I had the wrong recording date in the description. The label was sending her to different producers, trying to re-capture the magic. There was New Orleans with Pete Fountain, New York for Johnny and then Memphis for "Portrait". Three consecutive albums made outside of Nashville.
Es una de mis artistas favoritas canta con un gran sentimiento y su voz hermosa que daría x estar en un concierto de ella
Simply beautiful......
Ray's voice is so soothing he is a wonderful singer 💕 💖
Ray❓
Actually, a few songs charted after Johnny. "Nobody Wins" which reached #70 on the Hot 100 in 1973 was the last. The perennial "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" still pops up occasionally on the charts. It reached #76on the UK chart in 2008, just 16 months ago.
Brenda was inducted into the R&R HOF in 2002. She is the only female in both major halls.
Quelle voix,je l'adore depuis les années 60....Merci
She is the best
Little Miss dynamite. She got credit, but not the credit she deserves
My beloved Brenda at her best!
The record companies don't usually own the videos. They are often old TV shows. Sometimes there are compilation DVDs like those from the Ed Sullivan show, but more often they are unavailable, but copyrighted - a frustrating situation.
About the same time that this song was recorded Brenda recorded a song called "I Think I Love You Again." If you are a Brenda Lee fan, and you have not heard this recording you are missing something and you are not alone. The song is almost impossible to find. It is not included on any of her hit compilations in any form. In fact, as far as I know it appears on only one "rare album called "Memphis Portrait" and as a 45 rpm. This rare record is amazing.
Simply amazing! Bravo! :)
I think that the recording companies are missing out on a huge cash cow. Yes, the songs are popular, but what i truly enjoy is "seeing" the artists as they looked back then. The nostalgia and the imagery are potent and I "would" buy it, if it were available for purchase.
Used to love this song
brilliant recording one of my favourites fantastic
wow! don't remember ever hearing this before....
Now, you will remember.😇
georgeus.
I've been waiting for someone to put this performance back up on TH-cam for a while. Thank you Mr. Callipygous. I love it!
great song this is my favorit song from brenda lee steel have my45 record love kami
On this day in 1973 {June 22nd} Maxine Weldon performed "Johnny One Time" on the NBC-TV program 'The Midnight Special'...
Four years earlier on February 2nd, 1969 Brenda Lee entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart with her version of the song; eventually her version peaked at #41 and stay on the chart for 11 weeks...
And on March 23rd, 1969 it reached #3 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart; the two records that prevented it from reaching #1 were; "Galveston" by Glen Campbell {#1} and "You Gave Me a Mountain" by Frankie Laine {#2}...
'Little Miss Dynamite', born Brenda Mae Tarpley, will celebrate her 71st birthday this coming December 11th {2015}...
sauquoit13456 Yeah and on 31 Aug 1969, Susan Raye sang it on Hee Haw in prime time on network TV. How 'bout them apples?
Mostly Brenda Thanks for the reply and the info on Susan Raye, I've always enjoyed her...
Between 1969 and 1986 she had twenty-nine* hits on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart; seven made the Top 10 with "(I've Got A) Happy Heart"
being her biggest hit, it peaked at #3 in 1971...
* Six of her entries on the Hot Country Singles chart were duets with Buck Owens...
Thanks again...
In addition to the beautiful voice? This song captures perfectly the emotions a woman must feel the morning after a "one-night stand"...all the "shattered pride" and "broken heart" and promises made that never had any intention of being kept. Not trying to 'brag" on myself -- back some 25 years ago -- but I was one of those "Johnny One Times". I would say anything and do anything, to get "laid", and if I felt any guilt at all, it was only fleeting. It is nothing in the least I am proud of...it was shameful. It took years and developing a bit of wisdom -- having children, especially a daughter -- that I came to see CLEARLY see that I had -- in the whole scheme of things -- MUCH less actual "pride" than "they" did. After all, I was the one who lied, cheated, and stole, to get what I wanted. How much "pride" -- if one has any self-respect at all -- can one glean from THAT....?
Grande cantora, ela é maravilhosa._
Excellent. She had the best version of this Willie Nelson classic for sure. Thanks much for posting.
what.a voice brenda
"Johnny One Time - Decca 32428 - The past Willie Nelson country hit ballad penned by Dallas Frazier serves as a strong commercial pop entry for the stylist. This could easly prove a top chart item for her. Flip: 'I Must Have Been Out Of My Mind'.” (Billboard, Dec. 28, 1968, p. 51)
Funny, though - in a reverse situation, Brenda did an early recording of "Always On My Mind" a decade before Mr. Nelson had his biggest solo hit on the "pops" with it.
*so adorable, lovely while l can feel her voice sooth to my heart*=
That Johnny really hurt her 😭poor girl shes sweet
Brenda could balance her family and all the a sundry elements of womanhood with an easy grace.
Performing schedules and the demands of life in general can tax anyone.
It just goes to show that a genius can be beautiful as well.
When I listen to REAL singing talent like Brenda Lee it makes me realise what utter trash the likes of Miley Cyrus and Beyonce are.
yes of course indeed and let it be known too!
Yes agree so much.. For the trash these so called 'Artists" peddle out they should be made to sit & listen to this a other similar songs they are called MUSIC maybe methinks (hopes) they may learn something ..Peggy Wood
Amen to that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To me BRENDA LEE WAS THE BEST, SHE COULD SING ANYTHING!
Good point for sure!
Yes I agree with you, Brenda has always been my favorite singer of all-time, I love Patsy Cline, I've always felt it a awful shame not only of Patsy's death but to that her and Brenda Lees friendship was cut short in the beginning of Brenda's career. Love you Brenda..
This was always my favorite song by her. She had a slew of both pop and country hits but this one didn't do too well on either chart. I guess it wasn't enough of either format.
Really? I think it was great 👍🏽
Yet, it made #3 on the A/C (then known as Easy Listening) chart. More important, it netted Ms. Lee a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (in company with fellow nominees including Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield, Vikki Carr, Jackie DeShannon - and the eventual winner, Peggy Lee, who'd win for "Is That All There Is"). It also made the Top 30 of Cash Box and the Top 40 of Record World. To be in the same category with those famous names, you have to be that good. And Brenda, on here, certainly was.
Would love to meet her and the oak ridge boys
I knew a Johnny One Time
i always wanted linda ronstadt to do this song.
There are relatively few songs they both did. I once put together a playlist and eventually found only six tunes: th-cam.com/play/PL1r0QjAQ0mWQjGB-tTk_h7jgYQLV1n6Lw.html
When I first heard this song it was on an album by Loretta Lynn..., I love all versions of it.., but by her and Loretta the best.
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