Eddy's Song
"Eddy's Song" is a 1953 single by Eddy Arnold, written by Charlie Grean and Cy Coben. "Eddy's Song" spent three weeks at number one on the Country & Western chart and spent a total of thirteen weeks on the chart.[1]
Background
The song's lyrics contains the titles of Arnold's best-known songs to that time, intertwined to affirm a man's dedication to his significant other. Included in the song's lyrics are the names of 10 of the 17 number one hits he had achieved on the Billboard country charts through late 1952, when Arnold recorded and released the song.
Songs included are "Lovebug Itch," "Molly Darling," "I Wanna Play House With You," "Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me," "Bouquet Of Roses," "Anytime," "There's No Wings On My Angel," "Easy on the Eyes," "There's Been a Change in Me," "A Full Time Job," "That's How Much I Love You," "It's a Sin," "What Is Life Without Love," "Just a Little Lovin' (Will Go a Long Way)," "Older and Bolder," "Don't Ever Take the Ribbons From Your Hair," "Rockin' Alone," "Easy Rockin' Chair," "Don't Rob Another Man's Castle," "Chained to a Memory," "Bundle of Southern Sunshine" and "Cuddle Buggin' Baby"
"Eddy's Song" went on to become Arnold's 18th No. 1 song on the Billboard country chart, and was listed as the No. 11 song on the magazine's year-end retail chart for country records and No. 18 for jukebox plays.[2]
References
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- Wanderin' with Eddy Arnold (1955)
- Anytime (1956)
- Have Guitar, Will Travel (1959)
- Thereby Hangs a Tale (1959)
- One More Time (1962)
- Cattle Call (1963)
- Folk Song Book (1964)
- The Easy Way (1965)
- My World (1965)
- I Want to Go with You (1966)
- The Last Word in Lonesome (1966)
- Somebody Like Me (1966)
- Lonely Again (1967)
- Turn the World Around (1967)
- The Everlovin' World of Eddy Arnold (1968)
- The Romantic World of Eddy Arnold (1968)
- Walkin' in Love Land (1968)
- So Many Ways/If the Whole World Stopped Lovin' (1973)
(1940s)
- "The Cattle Call"
- "Each Minute Seems a Million Years"
- "That's How Much I Love You"
- "What Is Life Without Love"
- "It's a Sin"
- "I'll Hold You in My Heart"
- "To My Sorrow"
- "Anytime"
- "Bouquet of Roses"
- "Texarkana Baby"
- "Just a Little Lovin'"
- "A Heart Full of Love"
- "Don't Rob Another Man's Castle"
- "One Kiss Too Many"
- "The Echo of Your Footsteps"
- "I'm Throwing Rice"
- "Take Me in Your Arms"
(1950s)
- "Little Angel with the Dirty Face"
- "Why Should I Cry Over You?"
- "Cuddle Buggin' Baby"
- "Enclosed One Broken Heart"
- "Lovebug Itch"
- "There's Been a Change in Me"
- "Kentucky Waltz"
- "I Wanna Play House With You"
- "Something Old, Something New"
- "Somebody's Been Beating My Time"
- "Heart Strings"
- "Easy on the Eyes"
- "A Full Time Job"
- "Eddy's Song"
- "I Really Don't Want to Know"
- "This Is the Thanks I Get"
- "Hep Cat Baby"
- "I've Been Thinking"
- "The Cattle Call"
- "Just Call Me Lonesome"
- "You Don't Know Me"
- "Tennessee Stud"
(1960s)
- "What's He Doing in My World"
- "Make the World Go Away"
- "I Want to Go with You"
- "The Tip of My Fingers"
- "Somebody Like Me"
- "Lonely Again"
- "Misty Blue"
- "Turn the World Around"
- "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye"
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