Rock with Sedaka

Rock with Neil Sedaka or just Neil Sedaka is the first major solo album of Neil Sedaka 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 and was produced by Al Nevins. The album contains 12 songs all of them co-written by Neil Sedaka and his friend Howard Greenfield. Two of the songs became successful singles for Neil Sedaka from the album, namely "The Diary", 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

1. "You're Knockin' Me Out"
2. "The Diary"
3. "I Ain't Hurtin' No More"
4. "Stupid Cupid"
5. "All I Need Is You"
6. "I Waited Too Long"
7. "Fallin'"
8. "Another Sleepless Night"
9. "I Go Ape"
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" (US #14)
• 1959: "I Go Ape" (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" and "Fallin'" became major hits for Connie Francis, and Jimmy Clanton 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". 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".

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 as well