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need to sample to see if they are the orignal songs .:
I was a kid in a tent theatre when these sounds csme out. These are the true sounds of real, I mean real cowboy and country music at its's BEST.
Hillbilly heaven...!! Eddy Arnold's early years:
A stunning 5-CD collection of all of Arnold's earliest material, and one of the Bear Family boxes I've heard that best stands up to intensive and repeated listens. A treasure trove of old-fashioned sentimental county songs, packed with songs about little kids, lost loves, and sweet, saintly mothers, this is without doubt the definitive look at his early career, superseding the more humble (but no less enjoyable) single-disc collections that cover the same era. In the mid 1950s, Arnold, along with singers like Jime Reeves, Ferlin Husky and Marty Robbins, unreservedly adopted the new "Nashville Sound," the country-pop accommodation that Music City saw as its only hope to survive the commercial onslaught of the early rock'n'rollers. In some ways, his switch to a pop vocals wasn't that big a deal: Arnold was always a slow paced, sentimental crooner, by going pop he was just shedding the modest fiddle and pedal steel licks that buoyed his old records, and toning down the twang. He also revisited several of his older hits -- "Anytime," "Bouquet Of Roses," "Cattle Call" -- and gave them a grander-sounding orchestral sweep. It's fun to hear them here in their original stripped-down glory, but sweeter still to hear all the less well-known gems that came out at the same time, in all their unabashed, corny glory. There are also songs that he re-recorded within the space of a couple of years, such as "Little Angel With The Dirty Face" and "This Is The Thanks I Get (For Loving You)," which reveal Arnold already trying out a more robust baritone style, and experimenting with various musical arrangements. His understated delivery and richly sentimental, varied material all make for some mighty fine listening. Trust me: I, too, was leery of investing the big bucks to hear "too much" of such a sappy singer's work, but was VERY pleasantly surprised at how well this collection held up to repeat listens. Nice stuff!
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I HAVE LISTENED TO EDDY ARNOLD SINCE I WAS 10YRS OLD. I AM 49YRS NOW. HIS SONGS ARE VERY MEANINGFUL, TRUE TO LIFE & VERY TOUCHING TOO. I WISH TO COLLECT ALL OF THEM AGAIN, AS I LOST THEM LONG BEFORE I MIGRATED TO AUSTRALIA...
| Artist: | Eddy Arnold | | Binding: | Audio CD | | EAN: | 4000127157263 | | Format: | Import | | Format: | Best of | | Format: | Box set | | Number Of Discs: | 2 | | Original Release Date: | 1998-08-11 | | Release Date: | 1998-06-24 |
Tracks:- Mother's Prayer
- Mommy, Please Stay Home With Me
- Cattle Call
- Each Minute Seems Like a Million Years
- Did You See My Daddy Over There
- Many Tears Ago
- I Walk Alone
- You Must Walk the Line
- (I'll Have To) Live and Learn
- Be Sure There's No Mistake
- I Couldn't Believe It Was True
- I Talk to Myself About You
- All Alone in This World Without You
- Can't Win, Can't Place, Can't Show
- What Is Life Without Love?
- That's How Much I Love You
- Why Didn't You Take That, Too?
- Chained to a Memory
- Easy Rockin' Chair
- To My Sorrow
- It's a Sin
- I'm Somebody Nobody Loves
- That Little Boy of Mine
- Don't Bother to Cry
- Me Too
- I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)
- Bouquet of Roses
- What a Fool I Was
- Little Angel With the Dirty Face
- Wondering What to Do
- Prisoner's Song
- Rockin' Alone (In an Old Rockin' Chair)
- It Makes No Difference Now
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken
- Seven Years With the Wrong Woman
- Molly Darling
- I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
- Who at My Door Is Standing
- Then I Turned and Walked Slowly Away
- Texarkana Baby
- (In The) Hills of Tomorrow
- My Daddy Is Only a Picture
- Say You'll Be Mine
- There's Not a Thing (I Wouldn't Do for You)
- I've Got a Lifetime to Forget
- Anytime
- Heart Full of Love
- My Heart Cries for You
- I've Got Other Fish to Fry
- This Is the Thanks I Get (For Loving You)
- You Know How Talk Gets Around
- Just a Little Lovin' (Will Go a Long Way)
- Till the End of the World
- Save a Little Corner in Your Heart
- M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)
- I Wouldn't Trade the Silver in My Mother's Hair
- That Wonderful Mother of Mine
- Bring Your Roses to Her Now
- I Wish I Had a Girl Like You Mother
- My Mother's Sweet Voice
- There's No Wings on My Angel
- Echo of Your Footsteps
- Why Didn't You Take That, Too?
- That Little Boy of Mine
- My Heart Cries for You
- This Is the Thanks I Get (For Loving You)
- Don't Rob Another Man's Castle
- Me Too
- Little Angel With the Dirty Face
- I've Got Other Fish to Fry
- Many Tears Ago
- I Walk Alone
- Show Me the Way Back to Your Heart
- Homesick, Lonesome and Sorry
- One Kiss Too Many
- I Was Foolish When I Fell in Love With You
- Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
- I Tied a Little String Around My Finger
- I'm Throwing Rice
- Shepherd of My Heart
- Why Should I Cry
- C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S
- To the Last Beat of My Heart
- Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me
- Evil Tempt Me Not
- When Jesus Beckons Me Home
- Will Santy Come to Shanty Town
- Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
- Lily of the Valley
- Softly and Tenderly
- Mama and Daddy Broke My Heart
- You Touched Me
- Cattle Call
- Chained to a Memory
- Nearest Thing to Heaven
- Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
- Prison Without Walls
- Cuddle Buggin' Baby
- Enclosed One Broken Heart
- Tie Me to Your Apron Strings Again
- Behind the Clouds
- Million Miles from Your Heart
- At the Close of a Long, Long Day
- C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S
- If I Never Get to Heaven
- Lovebug Itch
- White Christmas
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- There's Been a Change in Me
- Precious Little Baby
- Through a Stranger's Eyes
- Open Thy Merciful Arms
- Jesus and the Atheist
- Behind the Clouds
- Precious Little Baby
- Kentucky Waltz
- Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
- Jesus and the Atheist
- May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You
- I'm Writing a Letter to the Lord
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