I Want to Be Wanted
Brenda Lee | Artist Essentials
First released: 1960 (year verified)
Original 1960 This Is Brenda studio album presentation
MusicAtlas editorial note: The original album presentation balances a flowing lead line with gently answering ensemble phrases.
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Release evidence and recording details
First released: 1960 (year verified)
The selected original studio album presentation was publicly available in 1960. The anthology remake label and inherited 2010 field are not treated as an original date. The same-year single context is reviewed without claiming an exact day.
Recording: Original 1960 This Is Brenda studio album presentation
Credit: Brenda Lee
Role in this collection: Primary artist
Original album: This Is...Brenda
This Is Brenda - licensed original 1960 album program
The original 1960 studio album program includes I Want to Be Wanted with Brenda Lee solo credit. The album association confirms its original year without applying the album day to a preceding single or an anthology remake label. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
Brenda Lee - label review of original recordings
The label article identifies the named original recording years, including Sweet Nothins 1959, Emotions 1960, All Alone Am I 1962, Is It True 1964 and Nobody Wins 1973. Used for original recording chronology alongside the licensed programs; its editorial ranking and descriptions are not reproduced. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
Brenda Lee - named version boundary review
The licensed program explicitly labels single editions and uses Remake Version for I Want to Be Wanted and Remake for Losing You. Its inherited 1991 and 2010 fields do not prove original release dates. The original 1960 This Is Brenda program is used for the selected I Want to Be Wanted presentation; the exact annual edition remains provisional. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
Annual version match under review
The selected recording has release evidence, but its version has not been matched to the retained annual entry. It is omitted from Beyond the yearly lists until this match is resolved.
The original 1960 album presentation is selected. The licensed anthology separately uses a Remake Version label and inconsistent inherited metadata; the actual annual row does not specify its exact edition. The actual candidate is preserved provisionally and excluded from Beyond.
This Is Brenda - licensed original 1960 album program
The original 1960 studio album program includes I Want to Be Wanted with Brenda Lee solo credit. The album association confirms its original year without applying the album day to a preceding single or an anthology remake label. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
Brenda Lee - named version boundary review
The licensed program explicitly labels single editions and uses Remake Version for I Want to Be Wanted and Remake for Losing You. Its inherited 1991 and 2010 fields do not prove original release dates. The original 1960 This Is Brenda program is used for the selected I Want to Be Wanted presentation; the exact annual edition remains provisional. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
About Brenda Lee
Brenda Lee began performing on radio and television as a child and signed with Decca in 1956. Her work with producer Owen Bradley linked a forceful rock-and-roll delivery to carefully arranged pop ballads. She also recorded in several languages as her audience expanded internationally. Country recordings became a larger part of her later career, including her renewed work with Bradley in the 1970s. Across those changes, her catalog gives unusually clear examples of one singer adapting her phrasing to very different arrangements.
Artist background sources
Brenda Lee - museum career and original release context
The museum describes her childhood radio and television work, 1956 Decca signing, work with Owen Bradley and movement between rock, pop and country. It explicitly places the release of Sweet Nothins in 1959. Chart years and session dates elsewhere in the biography are not automatically treated as first-release dates. | Retrieved 2026-10-18
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-18. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
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