Look at Me Girl
{{Infobox album
| name = Look at Me Girl
| type = studio
| artist = Bobby Vee and the Strangers
| cover = Look at Me Girl.jpg
| released = October 1966
| genre = Pop
| length = 29:52
| label = Liberty
| producer = Snuff Garrett
| prev_title = 30 Big Hits of the 60's, Volume 2
| prev_year = 1966
| next_title = Bobby Vee's Golden Greats Vol. 2
| next_year = 1966
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Look at Me Girl
| type = studio
| single1 = Look at Me Girl/Save A Love
| single1date = May 27, 1966
}}
}}
Look at Me Girl is the fifthteenth studio album American singer Bobby Vee, and was released in October 1966 by Liberty Records. The album featured the debut of Vee's backup band, The Strangers. The only single from the album was "Look at Me Girl".
The album contains original songs as well as the covers such as "Sunny", "Sweet Pea" and "Turn-Down Day".{{Cite book |last=Reynolds |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ko6LDgAAQBAJ&dq=bobby+vee+look+at+me+girl&pg=PA102 |title=The Music of Bobby Vee |date=2016-04-19 |publisher=Lulu.com |isbn=978-1-365-05412-9 |language=en}}
The album peaked at No. 102 on the Cashbox albums chart.
The album was released on compact disc by Beat Goes On on February 14, 2001, as tracks 1 through 12 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 13 through 24 consisting of Vee's 1967 album, Come Back When You Grow Up.{{cite web |title=Look at Me Girl/Come Back When You Grow Up |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/look-at-me-girl-come-back-when-you-grow-up-mw0000114423 |access-date=16 September 2024 |work=allmusic.com |publisher=}}
Singles
"Look at Me Girl" made its debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on July 8, 1966, eventually spending one week at number 52 during its 8-week stay,{{Cite book |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |url=https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstop00whitbur/page/742/mode/2up |title=Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles: 1955-2002 |date=2002 |publisher=Record Research |isbn=0898-2-0155-1 |location=Menomonee Falls, Wis. |pages=742}} and number 67 on the Cashbox singles chart.{{Cite book |last=Downey |first=Pat |url=https://archive.org/details/cashboxpopsingle00down/page/362/mode/2up |title=Cash box pop singles charts, 1950-1993 |date=1994 |publisher=Libraries Unlimited |isbn=1-56308-316-7 |location=Englewood, Colo. |pages=362-363}} The single was Vee's best showing since "I'll Make You Mine" in 1964, which also reached number 52 on the Billboard Hot 100.{{Cite magazine |date=1964-04-03 |title=Billboard Hot 100™ |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/ |access-date=2024-04-11 |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US}}
Reception
{{Album rating
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev2 = Record Mirror
| rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
}}
Bruce Eder of AllMusic said that the album "showed [Vee] belatedly abandoning his early-'60s teen pop sound and suddenly working within what sounded like a group context, with guitar-bass-drums accompaniment and doing songs that not only had a beat but also a modern edge, including "Sunny," "Summer in the City," "Look at Me Girl," with just a couple of songs that recalled his earlier work."{{Cite web |last=Eder |first=Bruce |title=Bobby Vee – Look at Me Girl: Album Ratings & Reviews |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/look-at-me-girl-mw0000866629 |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=AllMusic}}
Billboard mentioned that Vee's "old familiar style" became more distinct as the album progressed."{{cite magazine |date=October 15, 1966 |title=Pop Spotlight: Look at Me Girl |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8CgEAAAAMBAJ&dq=bobby+vee+look+at+me+girl+october+1966&pg=PT1 |magazine=Billboard |page=80 |volume=78 |issue=42 |editor=}}
Record Mirror stated that there was little to recommend from the album apart from Vee's "ever pleasant inoffensive voice".{{Cite book |last=Jopling |first=Norman |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/67/Record-Mirror-1967-02-04.pdf |title=new albums reviewed by Norman Jopling and Peter Jones: Terrific Temptations LP - not so good 4 tops |last2=Jones |first2=Peter |date=1967-02-04 |publisher=Record Mirror |pages=8 |language=en |issue=308}}
Cashbox gave a positive review, saying that Vee "goes off into such different sounds as "Lil' Red Riding Hood", "Sweet Pea", and "Sunny" for a host of easily recognizable sounds rendered with smooth individuality."{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/cashbox28unse_10/page/32/mode/2up |title=Cash Box Pop Picks: Look at Me Girl |date=1966-10-08 |publisher=Cash Box Pub. Co. |isbn= |volume=28 |location= |pages=32 |issue=10}}
The Ottawa Journal praised The Strangers along with Vee's singing, mentioning that Vee had not "lost his vocal punch".{{Cite web |title=Nov 11, 1966, page 23 - The Ottawa Journal at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/46490887/ |access-date=2024-04-11 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing =
| headline = Side one
| title1 = Look At Me Girl
| length1 = 2:28
| writer1 = James Lewis Williams
| title2 = Sunny
| length2 = 2:45
| writer2 = Bobby Hebb
| title3 = Growing Pains
| length3 = 2:39
| writer3 = Bob Stone
| title4 = Like You've Never Known Before
| length4 = 2:00
| writer4 = Robert Thomas Velline
| title5 = Summer in the City
| length5 = 2:38
| writer5 = John Sebastian, Mark Sebastian, Steve Boone
| title6 = Turn-Down Day
| length6 = 2:25
| writer6 = Jerry Keller, David Blume
}} {{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| title1 = Fly Away
| length1 = 2:55
| writer1 = Al Kooper
| title2 = Sweet Pea
| length2 = 2:15
| writer2 = Tommy Roe
| title3 = That's All In The Past
| length3 = 1:43
| writer3 = Robert Thomas Velline
| title4 = He's Not Your Friend
| length4 = 2:32
| writer4 = Allen Reynolds, Dickey Lee
| title5 = Back In Town
| length5 = 2:20
| writer5 = Robert Thomas Velline
| title6 = Li'l Red Riding Hood
| length6 = 2:30
| writer6 = Ron Blackwell
}}