Rock with Neil Sedaka or just Neil Sedaka is the first major solo album of Neil Sedaka

Neil Sedaka

Neil Sedaka is an American pop/rock singer, pianist, and composer. His career has spanned nearly 55 years, during which time he has sold millions of records as an artist and has written or co-written over 500 songs for himself and other artists, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard...

 released in 1959 after two 1958 albums under the titles Neil Sedaka and The Tokens and Neil Sedaka and The Tokens and Coins. The album was released on RCA

RCA Records

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 and was produced by Al Nevins

Al Nevins

Al Nevins, born Albert Tepper , was a renowned musician, producer, arranger, guitarist and violinist. He was also member of a pop trio called the Three Suns and is considered one of the major forces behind the evolution of the 1950s music into the early 1960s pop/rock music.-The Three Suns:Al...

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The album contains 12 songs all of them co-written by Neil Sedaka and his friend Howard Greenfield

Howard Greenfield

Howard Greenfield was an American lyricist and songwriter, who for several years in the 1960s worked out of the famous Brill Building...

. Two of the songs became successful singles for Neil Sedaka from the album, namely "The Diary

The Diary (song)

"The Diary" is a song by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield and is Neil Sedaka's debut single in 1958. It was issued on his 1959 debut solo album Rock with Sedaka on RCA. It was reissued on his 1961 album Neil Sedaka Sings Little Devil and His Other Hits and again in 1963 on the album Neil Sedaka...

", his debut single that was a hit reaching #14 in US Billboard charts, and "I Go Ape", a single that was relatively successful in the US reaching #42, but did far better in the UK Singles Chart making it up to #9 and his debut single in Britain.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield

Howard Greenfield

Howard Greenfield was an American lyricist and songwriter, who for several years in the 1960s worked out of the famous Brill Building...

1. "You're Knockin' Me Out"
2. "The Diary
   The Diary (song)
   "The Diary" is a song by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield and is Neil Sedaka's debut single in 1958. It was issued on his 1959 debut solo album Rock with Sedaka on RCA. It was reissued on his 1961 album Neil Sedaka Sings Little Devil and His Other Hits and again in 1963 on the album Neil Sedaka...
   
   "
3. "I Ain't Hurtin' No More"
4. "Stupid Cupid
   Stupid Cupid
   "Stupid Cupid" is a song written by Howard Greenfield and Neil Sedaka which became a hit for Connie Francis in 1958.In the spring of 1958 Francis had hit #4 with her breakout hit, a rock ballad version of the standard "Who's Sorry Now?"...
   
   "
5. "All I Need Is You"
6. "I Waited Too Long"
7. "Fallin'
   Fallin' (Connie Francis song)
   Fallin is a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield that was recorded by Connie Francis on 2 September 1958 at Metropolitan Studio in a session produced by Morton "Morty" Kraft who also conducted...
   
   "
8. "Another Sleepless Night"
9. "I Go Ape
   I Go Ape
   "I Go Ape" is the second single of Neil Sedaka immediately following his success with the debut single "The Diary" and was written by Neil Sedaka himself and Howard Greenfield...
   
   "
10. "Moon of Gold"
11. "I Belong To You"
12. "As Long as I Live"

Singles from the album

Singles from the album:

• 1958: "The Diary
  The Diary (song)
  "The Diary" is a song by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield and is Neil Sedaka's debut single in 1958. It was issued on his 1959 debut solo album Rock with Sedaka on RCA. It was reissued on his 1961 album Neil Sedaka Sings Little Devil and His Other Hits and again in 1963 on the album Neil Sedaka...
  
  " (US #14)
• 1959: "I Go Ape
  I Go Ape
  "I Go Ape" is the second single of Neil Sedaka immediately following his success with the debut single "The Diary" and was written by Neil Sedaka himself and Howard Greenfield...
  
  " (US #42, UK #9)
• 1959: "All I Need Is You" (released in Italy on the RCA Italiana label)
• 1959: "Stupid Cupid" (released in Italy on the RCA Italiana label)

"Stupid Cupid

Stupid Cupid

"Stupid Cupid" is a song written by Howard Greenfield and Neil Sedaka which became a hit for Connie Francis in 1958.In the spring of 1958 Francis had hit #4 with her breakout hit, a rock ballad version of the standard "Who's Sorry Now?"...

" and "Fallin'

Fallin'

"Fallin" is a song recorded, written, and produced by American recording artist Alicia Keys for her debut album, Songs in A Minor. Released to radio and music video outlets in 2001, it is generally considered her signature song. "Fallin'" became Keys' first number-one single in the United States...

" became major hits for Connie Francis

Connie Francis

Connie Francis is an American pop singer of Italian heritage and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1950s and 1960s. Although her chart success waned in the second half of the 1960s, Francis remained a top concert draw...

, and Jimmy Clanton

Jimmy Clanton

Jimmy Clanton is an American singer who became known as the "swamp pop R&B teenage idol". His band recorded a hit song "Just A Dream" which Clanton had written in 1958 for the Ace Records label. It reached number four on the Billboard chart and sold a million copies...

 made a hit out of "Another Sleepless Night".

Also, several B-sides were drawn from this album for Neil Sedaka's singles.

• "I Ain't Hurtin' No More" was the B-side of "The Girl For Me" later in 1959.
• "Moon of Gold" was the B-side of "I Go Ape!" in 1959.
• "Fallin'" was the B-side of the Italian release of "All I Need Is You" in 1959.
• "As Long As I Live" was the B-side of the Italian release of "Stupid Cupid" in 1959, and again was a B-side in 1962 for Sedaka's signature song "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
  Breaking Up is Hard to Do
  "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" is a song recorded by Neil Sedaka, and co-written by Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. Sedaka recorded this song twice, in 1962 and 1975, in two vastly different arrangements.-1962 version:...
  
  ". That same year, Sedaka recorded an Italian-language version as "Finche' Vivro'".
• "I Belong To You" was re-issued in 1962 as the B-side of "Next Door To An Angel
  Next Door to an Angel
  "Next Door To An Angel" was a rock-and-pop song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield and recorded by Neil Sedaka in 1962. It was issued by RCA Victor Records. It reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1962...
  
  ".

Re-release

In 1995, the album Rock with Sedaka was re-released on CD and included in addition the contents of the following album Circulate

Circulate

Circulate was the second solo album of Neil Sedaka after his 1959 debut solo album Rock with Sedaka. Circulate was released in 1961 on RCA and was produced by Al Nevins and Don Kirshner. Except for the title song "Circulate" and "I Found My World In You", the whole album contains covers of the...

as well