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Sweet Nothin's

Field	Value
name	Sweet Nothin's
cover	Sweet Nothin's.jpg
border	yes
type	single
artist	Brenda Lee
album	Brenda Lee
B-side	Weep No More My Baby
released	28 September 1959
recorded	13 August 1959
studio	Bradley Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
genre	{{Flatlist
* Rockabilly<ref>{{cite web	url	https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-79-sweet-nothins-by-brenda-lee/	title=Episode 79: "Sweet Nothin's" by Brenda Lee	last=Hickey	first=Andrew	date=April 22, 2020	publisher=500 Songs	access-date=January 14, 2022	archive-date=January 14, 2022	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220114115604/https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-79-sweet-nothins-by-brenda-lee/	url-status=live }}
* teen pop<ref name	AM/
* country<ref>{{cite book	first	Bob	last=Stanley	title=Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9emZAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT7	date=13 September 2013	publisher=Faber & Faber	isbn=978-0-571-28198-5	page=92}}
length
label	Decca 30967
writer	Ronnie Self
producer	Owen Bradley
prev_title	Let's Jump the Broomstick
prev_year	1959
next_title	That's All You Gotta Do
next_year	1960

the Brenda Lee song

| B-side = Weep No More My Baby

Rockabilly
teen pop
country

Sweet Nothin's is a 1959 song by Brenda Lee written by Ronnie Self. It peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 12 on the Hot R&B Sides chart, in 1960. The song (as Sweet Nuthin's) also charted on the UK Singles Chart in 1960, peaking at No. 4, marking Lee's first appearance on the UK chart.

The track begins with the sound of a whispering man who is speaking in a gibberish voice, where only Brenda Lee could understand, before the singing begins. Several radio stations banned the whispering dialogue as being too risque for airplay

Musician and producer David Z adapted Lee's vocals from the song to produce the distinctive backing vocals in "Kiss", the smash hit for Prince. Lee's voice from "Sweet Nothin's" was later sampled in Kanye West's song "Bound 2" on his 2013 album Yeezus. This sample in turn was used by Sigma in their 2014 song "Nobody to Love."

In popular culture

The song was used in a 1985 TV commercial for Molson Canadian beer in Canada.

References

Hickey, Andrew. (April 22, 2020). "Episode 79: "Sweet Nothin's" by Brenda Lee". 500 Songs.
"Brenda Lee Biography". Allmusic.
Stanley, Bob. (13 September 2013). "Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop". Faber & Faber.
Steve Leggett. (2002-07-23). "Sweet Nothings - Brenda Lee | Songs, Reviews, Credits".
Whitburn, Joel. (2008). "Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008". Record Research, Inc..
"Brenda Lee UK chart runs". Polyhex.
"Prince 'Kiss'".
(2013). "Yeezus". [[Def Jam Recordings]].

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