Pop Hits From the Country Side rounds up a dozen country songs that also found favor with the pop audience, as interpreted by the king of crossover music, Eddy Arnold. The twist is that the songs are presented in a "completely pop context," to quote the liner notes, and the album sounds a lot like those made by pop vocalists John Gary and Al Martino when they tackled similar material. Arnold's versions of pop-oriented country songs like "I Fall to Pieces" and "Four Walls" are even more languid than the originals, with lush orchestral arrangements that contrast with Arnold's homey baritone. The album was a departure for Arnold in that it was recorded in New York instead of Nashville and cleaves to its pure pop concept. Rosemary Clooney did this sort of thing over a decade earlier with "Half As Much," so Pop Hits From the Country Side can hardly be considered a groundbreaker, even though it was an experiment of sorts for Eddy Arnold.
EDDY ARNOLD
POP HITS FROM THE COUNTRY SIDE (RCA Victor LSP-2951)
October/1964
Produced by Chet Atkins & Jim Foglesong
Today I passed you on the street and my heart fell at your feet
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you
Somebody else stood by your side and he looked so satisfied
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you
A picture from the past came slowly stealing
As I brushed your arm and walked so close to you
Then suddenly I got that old time feeling
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you
(Somebody else stood by your side and he looked so satisfied
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you)
It's hard to know another's lips will kiss you
And hold you just the way I used to do
Oh heaven only knows how much I miss you
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you
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I miss you darling more and more every day
As heaven would miss the stars above
With every heartbeat I still think of you
And remeber our faded love
I may think of the past and all the pleasures we had
As I watch the mating of the dove
It was in the springtime that you said goodbye
I remember our faded love
(I miss you darling more and more every day
As heaven would miss the stars above)
With every heartbeat I still think of you
And remeber our faded love
And remeber our faded love
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I remember the night and the Tennessee Waltz
Now I know just how much I have lost
Yes I lost my little darling the night they were playing
The beautiful Tennessee Waltz
A bad mistake I'm making by just hanging round
I know that I should have some fun and paint the town
A lovesick fool is blind and just can't see oh lonesome me
I'll bet she's not like me she's out and fancy free
Flirting with the boys with all her charms
But I still love her so and brother don't you know
I'd welcome her right back here in my arms
Well there must be some way I can lose these lonesome blues
Forget about the past and find somebody new
I've thought of everything from A to Z
Oh lonesome me [ strings - guitar ]
Well there must be some way I can lose...
Oh lonesome me
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(I fall to pieces) each time someone speaks your name
(I fall to pieces) time only adds to the flame
You tell me to find someone else to love
Someone who'll love me too the way you used to do
But each time I go out with someone new
You walk by and I fall to pieces
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If you missed me half as much as I miss you
You wouldn't stay away half as much as you do
I know that I would never be this blue
If you only loved me half as much as I love you [ strings ]
You're nice to me when there's no one else around
You only build me up to let me down
If you missed me half as much as I miss you...
If you only loved me half as much as I love you
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Since you've gone my heart my lips my tear dimmed eyes
A lonely soul within me cries
I acted smart broke your heart now you've gone
Oh what I'd give for the lifetime I've wasted
The love that I've tasted I was wrong now you've wrong
(Now you've gone now you've gone...
Since you've gone my heart...
(Now you've gone) now you've gone
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Though it may break your heart and mine the minute when it's time to go
Remember dear each word divine that meant I love you so
Till I waltz again with you just the way we are tonight
I will keep my promise true for you are my guiding light [ strings ]
Though it may break your heart...
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Perhaps upon that Lonely Street there's someone such as I
Who came to bury broken dreams and watch an old love die
If I could find that Lonely Street where dim lights bring forgetfulness
Where broken dreams and mem'ries meet where's this place called Lonely Street
Where's this place called Lonely Street
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Your cheating heart will make you weep you'll cry and cry and try to sleep
But sleep won't come the whole night through your cheating heart will tell on you
When tears come down like falling rain you'll toss around and call my name
You'll walk the floor the way I do your cheating heart will tell on you
(Your cheating heart) will pine someday and crave the love you threw away
The time will come when you'll be blue your cheating heart will tell on you
When tears come down like falling rain...
Your cheating heart will tell on you
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