For You/Fools Rush In/Down Home/That Same Old Feeling/You're Free To Go/I Rise I Fall/That's All She Wrote/ A Legend In My Time/Just Take A Moment/Hello Mister Happiness/Hey There Little Miss Tease/The Nearness Of You
Teen idol Ricky Nelson achieved his final US top twenty album success with Sings For You. Old revivals For You and Fools Rush In both made the UK and US singles top twenty. Ricky was far from being the only clean cut teen orientated singer to be swept aside by the British invasion. (US:14)
"Fools Rush In, with its classic James Burton guitar work, overshadowed everything else on Nelson's second Decca album, which contained another big hit in the title track. The singer moved into some more country-oriented material on cuts like A Legend In My Time, but as a whole the atmosphere was too sedate and the material was unexceptional, sometimes sounding like inferior derivations of his early-'60s hits for Imperial."
"This is an excellent album and, as far as I know, the only one with Down Home, a song of nostalgic longing that puts Rick's young yet melancholy voice to perfect use."
"Like most pop music in America (just before The Beatles' arrival) a lot of the songs here seem 'watered down' compared to the harder, more exciting material on his earlier albums. And a couple tunes are marred by one of the worst group of back-up singers I've ever heard."
"It leads off with Rick's two late '63/early '64 hits, For You, and Fools Rush In, the latter an exciting arrangement of the swing era standard, with a beautiful guitar solo by James Burton."
"There's also a surprising take on the standard The Nearness Of You. Rick's smooth vocals fit the romantic mood of these songs perfectly. Rick knew how to give a song just what it needed, which is even more important. There's nothing phony in Rick Nelson's singing, it all comes from the heart."
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