Complete Original #1 Hits

by Eddy Arnold

Overview

Eddy Arnold: Complete Original #1 Hits is a single-disc, 28-track overview of the Tennessee Plowboy's country-pop hits recorded for RCA that spanned over three decades. What makes this compilation different from several other similar packages is that these are the original hits, not the overdubbed re-recordings. Starting in the mid-'60s, Arnold began utilizing strings on his records, similar to what Patsy Cline, Ray Price, and Jim Reeves would also be known for. Pure country listeners balked at this approach, but these tracks introduced the country form to a much wider audience with what would be known as the Nashville Sound, which kept Arnold on the charts for another decade. With the success of this formula, Arnold began re-recording his earlier material with lush arrangements. Complete Original #1 Hits spotlights the lesser heard, hard to find original mixes, sans strings, in chronological order, beginning with his first number one, "What Is Life Without Love" in 1946, and concluding with his last, "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye," in 1968.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/30/2013
Label:	Real Gone Music
UPC:	0848064000815
catalogNumber:	400081
Rank:	38647

Tracks

1. What Is Life Without Love
2. It's a Sin
3. I'll Hold You In My Heart (Till I Can Hold You In My Arms)
4. Anytime
5. Bouquet of Roses
6. Texarkana Baby
7. Just a Little Lovin' (Will Go a Long, Long Way)
8. A Heart Full of Love (for a Handful of Kisses)
9. Don't Rob Another Man's Castle
10. One Kiss Too Many
11. I'm Throwing Rice (At the Girl I Love)
12. Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me
13. There's Been a Change In Me
14. Kentucky Waltz
15. I Wanna Play House with You
16. Easy on the Eyes
17. A Full Time Job
18. Eddy's Song
19. I Really Don't Want To Know
20. The Cattle Call
21. That Do Make It Nice
22. What's He Doing In My World
23. Make the World Go Away
24. I Want to Go with You
25. Somebody Like Me
26. Lonely Again
27. Turn the World Around
28. Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Eddy Arnold   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Bill Monroe   Composer
Eddy Arnold   Composer
Zeb Turner   Composer
Cindy Walker   Composer
Don Robertson   Composer
Howard Barnes   Composer
Hank Cochran   Composer
Bob Hilliard   Composer
John D. Loudermilk   Composer
Fred Rose   Composer
Tex Owens   Composer
Zeke Clements   Composer
Ben Peters   Composer
Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise   Composer
Doug Wygal   Producer
Fred Ebb   Composer
Wayne Carson Thompson   Composer
Herbert "Happy" Lawson   Composer
Vic McAlpin   Composer
Jean Chapel   Composer
Cy Coben   Composer
Don Cusic   Liner Notes
Cottonseed Clark   Composer
Roy Soehnel   Composer
Steve Nelson   Composer
Eddie Bush   Composer
Gerry Teifer   Composer
Hal Horton   Composer
Ed Nelson   Composer
Tommy Dilbeck   Composer
Charles Green   Composer
Jenny Lou Carson   Composer
Billy Moore   Composer
Paul Klein   Composer