Singing Down the Lane
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| Singing Down the Lane | ||||
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| Released | 1956 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
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Singing Down the Lane is an album recorded by country music singer Jim Reeves. Released in June 1956,[1] it was his first album for RCA Victor.[2][3]
History[edit]
In November 1957, Billboard magazine reported on its annual poll of country music disc jockeys. Singing Down the Lane ranked No. 10 among the "Favorite C&W Albums" of the preceding year.[4]
The liner notes on the album's back cover summed up the album: "There are no slow, strained moments in the long-playing tracks of this album. The title of the album was the keynote . . and the barometer was reading 'Spring' . . . and the handsome fellow from Texas was striding down the lane with an even dozen of his best vocals."[2]
Reeves' biographer Larry Jordan criticized the record company for the album's weak packaging—a black-and-white photograph of Reeves that had been "tinted a garish green" and that showed him "wearing a toupee that looked like some sort of an animal ready to leap off his head."[3] Jordan also criticized Reeves' "full bore" and unrestrained delivery on several tracks, lacking the subtlety and mellowness that marked his later RCA Victor recordings.[3]
The Juke Box Rebel ranked it No. 13 among the albums released in 1956.[5]
Track listing[edit]
Side A
- "Roly Poly"
- "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?"
- "Breeze (Blow My Baby Back to Me)"
- "Waltzing on Top of the World"
- "Oklahoma Hills" (Guthrie)
- "Love Me a Little Bit More"
Side B
- "Tweedle O'Twill"
- "Each Time You Leave"
- "Ichabod Crane"
- "Your Old Love Letters"
- "Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt"
- "Highway to Nowhere"
References[edit]
- ^ "Folk Talent & Tunes". The Billboard. June 23, 1956. p. 56.
- ^ a b c "Liner notes to album". RCA Victor. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
- ^ a b c Larry Jordan (2011). Jim Reeves: His Untold Story. Page Turner Books. p. 177. ISBN 9780615524306.
- ^ "Favorite C&W Albums". The Billboard. November 11, 1957. p. 112.
- ^ "Album Chart of 1956". The Jukebox Rebel. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
- ^ "Jim Reeves – Singing Down The Lane". Discogs. December 16, 2020.
