Search - Eddy Arnold :: Bouquet of Roses

Now THIS Is What I Call A Decent "Best Of" Effort

08/03/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"As much as I panned The Essential Eddy Arnold I have to praise this great CD (and its companion The Cattle Call). Produced in Belgium they offer, between them, 31 bona fide charters (out of 48 selections) and some of those that didn't chart probably should have. Especially tunes like Rockin' Alone In An Old Rockin' Chair (on the Cattle Call CD) and Don't Bother To Cry on this one.



On this CD you will find his first 14 Country hits, charted between 1945 and 1948: Each Minute Seems A Million Years (# 8 in 1945); All Alone In This World Without You (# 7) and the double-sided hit That's How Much I Love You b/w Chained To A Memory (#s 2 and 3) from 1946. From 1947 there's What Is Life Without Love (# 1), It's A Sin b/w I Couldn't Believe It Was True (#s 1 and 4), I'll Hold You In My Heart [Till I Can Hold You In My Arms] (#1 for 21 weeks), and To My Sorrow (# 2).



The 1948 hits are Molly Darling (# 10), Anytime b/w What A Fool I Was (# 1 for 9 weeks for the A-side and # 2 for the flip, both of which also made the pop charts at #s 17 and 29), and Bouquet Of Roses b/w Texarkana Baby (the A-side spent 19 weeks at # 1 and the flip three weeks at # 1 and again both made the pop charts, going to # 13 and 18 respectively.



Bonuses include the original version of The Cattle Call which a young Eddy (he was born on May 15, 1918 in Henderson, Tennessee} first recorded in 1944. and outstanding renditions of classics such as I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes, It Makes No Difference Now, and I Walk Alone.



Topping off this quality CD (in every respect) are comprehensive liner notes written by William Hogeland. A Bouquet Of Roses indeed."