Bobbie Sue

{{more citations needed|date=November 2024}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album| | name = Bobbie Sue | type = Studio | artist = the Oak Ridge Boys | cover = Bobbie Sue.jpg | alt = | released = 1982 | recorded = 1981 | venue = | studio = *Woodland (Nashville, Tennessee) *FAME (Muscle Shoals, Alabama) | genre = Country | length = 31:11 | label = MCA | producer = Ron Chancey | prev_title = Fancy Free | prev_year = 1981 | next_title = Christmas | next_year = 1982 | misc = {{Singles | name = Bobbie Sue | type = studio | single1 = Bobbie Sue | single1date = 1981 | single2 = So Fine | single2date = 1982 | single3 = I Wish You Could Have Turned My Head (And Left My Heart Alone) | single3date = 1982 }} }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' |rev1score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=515}}</ref> }} '''''Bobbie Sue''''' is the eighth album by the Oak Ridge Boys, released in 1982.<ref>{{cite book |title=Country Music: The Encyclopedia |date=2000 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |pages=345–346}}</ref> The title song was a No. 1 country chart hit and a No. 12 hit on the Hot 100 singles chart.

The album includes cover versions of "So Fine", a song originally by the Fiestas; and "Up on Cripple Creek", originally by the Band.

==Track listing==

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| title1 = Bobbie Sue | writer1 = Wood Newton, Dan Tyler, Adele Tyler, Jerry Lieber, Mike Stoller | length1 = 2:49

| title2 = I Wish You Were Here (Oh My Darlin') | writer2 = Michael Foster | length2 = 3:36

| title3 = Doctor's Orders | writer3 = Rory Bourke, Bruce Channel, Kieran Kane | length3 = 3:33

| title4 = Old Kentucky Song | writer4 = Kix Brooks, Ed Hunnicutt | length4 = 2:37

| title5 = So Fine | writer5 = Johnny Otis | length5 = 2:47

| title6 = I Wish You Could Have Turned My Head (And Left My Heart Alone) | writer6 = Sonny Throckmorton | length6 = 3:34

| title7 = Back in Your Arms Again | writer7 = Rusty Golden | length7 = 2:58

| title8 = Up on Cripple Creek | writer8 = Robbie Robertson | length8 = 3:19

| title9 = Until You | writer9 = Rusty Golden, Jimbeau Hinson | length9 = 3:14

| title10 = Would They Love Him Down in Shreveport? | writer10 = Bobby Braddock | length10 = 2:25 }}

==Personnel== '''The Oak Ridge Boys''' *Duane Allen *Joe Bonsall *William Lee Golden *Richard Sterban

'''Musicians''' *Jimmy Capps - acoustic guitar *Jerry Carrigan - drums, percussion *Gene Chrisman - drums, percussion *Farrell Morris - percussion * Weldon Myrick - steel guitar *Ron Oates - keyboards *Billy Sanford - electric guitar, acoustic guitar *Jack Williams - bass guitar *Chip Young - acoustic guitar *Reggie Young - electric guitar

'''The Muscle Shoals Horns''' *Harrison Calloway - trumpet *Ronnie Eades - baritone saxophone *Charles Rose - trombone *Harvey Thompson - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone

Strings arranged by Bergen White

==Chart performance== ===Album=== {| class="wikitable" ! Chart (1982) ! Peak<br />position |- | U.S. ''Billboard'' Top Country Albums | align="center"| 1 |- | U.S. ''Billboard'' 200<ref>{{cite web |title=The Oak Ridge Boys |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/the-oak-ridge-boys/ |website=Billboard |access-date=November 8, 2024}}</ref> | align="center"| 20 |- | Canadian ''RPM'' Top Albums | align="center"| 27 |}

===Singles=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" ! rowspan="2"| Year ! rowspan="2"| Single ! colspan="6"| Peak chart positions |- style="font-size:smaller;" ! width="40"| US Country ! width="40"| US ! width="40"| US AC ! width="40"| CAN Country ! width="40"| CAN ! width="40"| CAN AC |- | rowspan="3"| 1982 | align="left"| "Bobbie Sue" | 1 | 12 | 19 | 1 | 20 | 1 |- | align="left"| "So Fine" | 22 | 76 | — | 16 | — | — |- | align="left"| "I Wish You Could Have Turned My Head (And Left My Heart Alone)" | 2 | — | — | 4 | — | — |}

==References== {{reflist}}

Category:The Oak Ridge Boys albums Category:1982 albums Category:MCA Records albums Category:Albums produced by Ron Chancey