I'm Sorry (Brenda Lee song)

"I'm Sorry"
Single by Brenda Lee
from the album Brenda Lee
A-side"That's All You Gotta Do"
Released16 May 1960
Recorded28 March 1960
StudioBradley Studios (Nashville, Tennessee)
GenreCountrypolitan
Length2:40
LabelDecca Records 9-31093
Songwriter(s)Dub Allbritten, Ronnie Self
Producer(s)Owen Bradley
Brenda Lee singles chronology
"Sweet Nothin's"
(1959)
"I'm Sorry"
(1960)
"I Want to Be Wanted"
(1960)

"I'm Sorry" is a 1960 hit song by 15-year-old American singer Brenda Lee. The song was written by Dub Allbritten and Ronnie Self. It peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in July 1960. On the UK Singles Chart, the song peaked at No.12. AllMusic guide wrote that it is the pop star's "definitive song", and one of the "finest teen pop songs of its era". In 1999, the 1960 recording by Lee on Decca Records was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.