Eddy Arnold - Cattle Call / Thereby Hangs A Tale (CD)

Details: In 1959, RCA Nashville producer-guitarist Chet Atkins brought Jimmie Driftwood's Tennessee Stud to Eddy Arnold and gave 'The Tennessee Plowboy' his first major hit in three years. That success, scored in the wake of the Kingston Trio's Tom Dooley, prompted the Atkins-Arnold team to prepare an album of folk-based saga songs, 'Thereby Hangs a Tale.' in 1963, a second 'folk' album, this with an exclusively Western theme, reprised Arnold's 1955 hit, Cattle Call. This 25-song collection brings together all the 1959-1963 'folk & Western' recordings of country's Crosby, souvenirs of a time when saga songs became hit records.

Tracklist:

1. Streets of Laredo
2. Cool Water
3. Cattle Call
4. Leanin' on the Old Top Rail
5. Ole Faithful
6. Cowboy's Dream
7. Wayward Wind
8. Tumbling Tumbleweeds
9. Cowpoke
10. Where the Mountains Meet the Sky
11. Sierra Sue
12. Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie
13. Jim I Wore a Tie Today
14. Tom Dooley
15. Nellie Sits A-Waitin'
16. Tennessee Stud
17. Battle of Little Big Horn
18. Wreck of the Old '97
19. Red Headed Stranger
20. Johnny Reb That's Me
21. Riders in the Sky
22. Boot Hill
23. Ballad of Davy Crockett
24. Partners
25. Jesse James