The Wondering Boy

ReleasedAugust 1956

GenreCountry

LabelDecca

The Wondering Boy
Studio album by Webb Pierce
Released	August 1956
Genre	Country
Label	Decca
Webb Pierce chronology
Webb Pierce (1955) The Wondering Boy (1956) Just Imagination (1958)
Singles from The Wondering Boy
"Wondering" Released: September 28, 1951 "That Heart Belongs to Me" Released: May 17, 1952 "Back Street Affair" Released: September 15, 1952 "It's Been So Long" Released: June 17, 1953 "There Stands the Glass" Released: September 21, 1953 "Slowly" Released: January 8, 1954 "Love Love Love" Released: September 5, 1955

The Wondering Boy is an album from honky-tonk singer Webb Pierce that was released in August 1956 on the Decca label (DL 8295).^[1] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called the album "one of his best albums of the '50s" with a "dynamite" track sequence.^[2]

The album included seven songs that reached No. 1 on the US country charts: "Wondering" (Jockey #1, 1952), "That Heart Belongs to Me" (Jockey #1, 1952), "Back Street Affair" (Jockey #1, Juke Box #1, Best Seller #1, 1952), "It's Been So Long" (Jockey #1, Juke Box #1, Best Seller #1, 1953), "There Stands the Glass" (Best Seller #1, Juke Box #1, Jockey #1, 1953), "Slowly" (Best Seller #1, Juke Box #1, Jockey #1, 1954), and "Love Love Love" (Jockey #1, Juke Box #1, Best Seller #1, 1955).^[3]