''Steady Date with Tommy Sands'' is the 1957 debut album by American singer

Tommy Sands Thomas Adrian Sands (born August 27, 1937) is an American pop music singer and actor. Working in show business as a child, Sands became an overnight sensation and instant teen idol when he appeared on ''Kraft Television Theater'' in January 19 ...

. A double page advertising spread in the April 13, 1957 issue of ''Billboard'' magazine described Sands as the "Hottest singer in the nation" and ''Steady Date with Tommy Sands'' as the "Hottest album in the nation".

Reception

The initial ''Billboard'' magazine review from April 29, 1958 commented that "Tommy

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Sands stands a good chance of chalking up as strong a sales record in the album field as he already has in the singles market. His first LP spotlights a sock selection of teen-age-bait tunes...sung expertly by Sands in a variety of styles. The kids made Presley and Pat Boone best selling artists and they may very well do the same for Sands. Watch this one". Greg Adams reviewed a 1998 reissue of the album on the Collectables label for

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and wrote that the album "...omits his most enduring track, "The Worrying Kind," but otherwise presents an adequate glimpse at the music of this teen idol. The recordings range from teen-oriented novelties ("Ring My Phone") to quasi-big band vocal material. This collection is adequate and affordable for those who are curious about Sands' music..." In his 1999 book ''All Roots Lead to Rock: Legends of Early Rock 'n' Roll'',

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wrote that "There was nothing remotely subversive about teady Date with Tommy Sandswhich contained ten shriveled old standards from writers who were born in the previous century". In her 2006 book ''Great Pretenders: My Strange Love Affair with '50s Pop Music'', Karen Schoemer wrote of listening to the album for the first time while researching her book and felt that "...the sound that came out of my stereo was unlike anything I've ever heard. It was a version of rock and roll so misshapen, so exaggerated, that it verged on the grotesque." and felt that Sands's vocal was "a hiccupy (sic) approximation of Elvis that evoked Bill Murray's lounge singer on ''Saturday Night Live''."

Track listing

# " Goin' Steady" (

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) # "

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" ( Fred E. Ahlert,

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) # " Too Young" (

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, Sylvia Dee) # "

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" ( Gene de Paul,

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) # " Graduation Day" (

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) # " 'A' You're Adorable" ( Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, Lippman) # "Gonna Get a Girl" ( Al Lewis,

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) # "Too Young to Go Steady" (

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) # "Ring My Phone" (Frank DeHaven) # "

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" (Adamson, McHugh) # "

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" ( Kurt Adams,

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) # " Walkin' My Baby Back Home" ( Fred E. Ahlert,

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Personnel

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