Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). Cover looks good; moderate scuffing, a few tiny surface abrasions and discoloration spots (front/back); slight discoloration on back. Inner-sleeve is original (Decca ads). Spine is mostly readable with a few small splits. Shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of use. (Not a cut-out.)
Johnny One Time was Brenda Lee's first country hit in over a decade and the beginning of her commercial "second wind" on the country charts that reached gale force in the mid-'70s. The cover art portrays Lee as a sophisticated pop vocalist, an image that is supported by the material, particularly the several songs with European roots. The Jacques Brel and Rod McKuen composition If You Go Away is in a similar cosmopolitan vein, but the cover of the Box Tops' The Letter is a bit of a surprise. Brenda Lee is a sadly underrated vocalist who could have gone in any direction she chose; on Johnny One Time she dabbles in various styles, but the prevailing mood is one of adult pop. The title song reached No. 3 on the adult contemporary chart, No. 41 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. 50 on the country chart in 1969. The song also reached No. 11 on the Canadian adult contemporary chart and No. 38 on the Canadian pop chart.