Hey Little One (song)

"Hey Little One"
Single by Glen Campbell
from the album By the Time I Get to Phoenix
B-side "My Baby's Gone"
Released January 1968
Genre Country
Length 2:32
Label Capitol
Writer(s) Dorsey Burnette, Barry De Vorzon
Producer(s) Al DeLory
Glen Campbell singles chronology
"By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
(1967)
"Hey Little One"
(1968)
"I Wanna Live"
(1968)

"Hey Little One", a song written by Dorsey Burnette and Barry De Vorzon, was released on May 2, 1960 by Era. The record "Hey Little One"/"Big Rock Candy Mountain" (Era 3019) was sung by Dorsey and it reached No. 48 in the Hot 100. The band on the recording included veteran session drummer Earl Palmer.[1]

Glen Campbell version

It was re-recorded by American country music artist Glen Campbell. It was re-released in January 1968 as the second single from his album By the Time I Get to Phoenix. The song peaked at number 13 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.[2] It also reached number 6 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.

Chart performance

Chart (1968) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 13
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 54
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening 20
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 2

References

  1. Scherman, Tony, Backbeat: The Earl Palmer Story, forward by Wynton Marsalis, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1999 p. 175
  2. "Glen Campbell singles". Allmusic. Retrieved 25 March 2011.

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