Tennis, the Denver husband-and-wife duo, released their debut album, Cape Dory, in February. The set of sweet-sounding tunes owes a debt to ’60s girl-group pop, and now Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore (who’ve since added drummer James Barone) show they’re sticking with the decade, covering Brenda Lee‘s “Is It True.”

Lee recorded the song in 1964 in England with The Animals’ producer Mickie Most, marking the first time her longtime producer Owen Bradley wasn’t behind the board. “Is It True” represented a rockabilly turn for the country-pop balladeer, but the latest music from “Little Miss Dynamite” fizzled, with the single reaching just #17 on the Billboard Hot 100.

“Brenda Lee has been a great source of inspiration for me,” says Tennis’ Moore. “We stumbled across the song ‘Is It True,’ a less popular single she recorded later in her career, and loved it not just for her more mature, crackly voice, but for the randomly awesome inclusion of a very young Jimmy Page on electric guitar. The song is such a jam, we really enjoyed the chance to record it ourselves. Despite the limitations of recording it on a four-track cassette, and then having to mix it in a pinch on an 11-year-old laptop that crashed regularly, all the parts we love are there.”

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As someone who went about the house as a kid singing along to Brenda Lee’s “I’m Sorry” and “All Alone Am I” (so dramatic!), seeing that Lee’s music is having a moment really takes me back. Will someone please cover “All Alone Am I” next?

Oh, and you haven’t lived until you’ve heard Brenda Lee sing “The Crying Game.” Her recording, which I only discovered today, was the b-side to “Alone With You,” the follow-up to “Is It True,” on which Lee reunited with Owen Bradley. Interestingly, a young Jimmy Page also played guitar on Dave Berry’s original 1964 single.

Free download of Tennis – “Is It True” (Brenda Lee cover) via the band’s website.