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Shelley began acting at age 3 and by 10 she made her television debut on an episode of Letter to Loretta. She was 11 when she had the good fortune to appear alongside Frank Sinatra and Paul Newman in a television production of Our Town and early film roles included playing children in romance films like Never Say Goodbye and Marjorie Morningstar These two films and her role on TV in Annette were early indications of the direction her career would take.

Some kind soul has uploaded the whole Annette story to YouTube. See it here. Reed infused her character, Donna Stone, with many of her own strong and caring traits and the popular show was one of the first to feature a female main character. Like many young stars of the era, both Shelley and her TV brother, Paul Peterson, were expected to sing. While many young TV stars were shown to have negligible voices when put before the mic, Fabares proved to have a pleasing and gentle voice.

The song had been recorded in the fall of the previous year and there was a stellar line-up of session musicians on hand. Darlene Love and her group The Blossoms sang back-up at the session and crack members of the Wrecking Crew added their professional touch. Drummer Hal Blaine and bassist Carol Kaye can add this to the scores of hit songs they played on and to them we can add a young guitarist name of Glen Campbell to the session notes.

Interestingly, Shelley had no desire whatsoever to be a singer.

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Her slight voice was pleasant but delicate and fragile-sounding. She was not equipped to give a vigorous performance the likes of which her fellow singer on the track, Love, or a contemporary like Lesley Gore could provide. The record was produced and arranged by maestro Stu Phillips who would later bless our ears with his Hollyridge Strings records.