The Waiting Game

Album: He's Sure To Remember Me (1964)
Charted: 101
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Songfacts®:

  • This bouncy ode to abstinence finds Brenda Lee singing about how she's willing to wait for love, per her mother's advice.

    The song was written by Buzz Cason, who had been a member of Lee's backing band. Cason was working as a songwriter when he got word that Jerry Bradley, the son of Lee's producer Owen Bradley, had started a publishing company and was looking for songs for Lee. Cason wrote this song and recorded the demo in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He pitched the song to Jerry, who had Lee record it. "It was real good to have one of my idols record a song because I dearly loved Brenda," Cason said in his Songfacts interview.

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