Walkin' in Love Land has an aura of nostalgia because of the number of older pop songs, like the Everly Brothers' "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and Glen Campbell's "Turn Around, Look at Me" (which was on the charts again in 1968 thanks to the Vogues). The wistful "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" was deservedly a number one hit for Eddy Arnold, even if Johnny Tillotson's 1963 recording was better. The Platters' "I'll Never Smile Again" is a surprising selection that is well-suited to Arnold's style, and the title track sounds like a missed opportunity for a single. On the downside, the cloying "Apples, Raisins and Roses" and most of side two are bland pop ballads of the sort that dominate Arnold's late-'60s LPs. About half of Walkin' in Love Land ranges in quality from above-average to very good, which is enough to place the album among the best of Eddy Arnold's late RCA albums.
EDDY ARNOLD
WALKIN' IN LOVE LAND (RCA Victor LSP-4089)
October/1968
Produced by Chet Atkins
I'm happy as I can be while you're here with me
Here in the moonlight watching the tide roll in
I feel your warm touch love you so much
Walkin' in love land baby with you
I've been walkin' in love land you know it makes me feel so fine
I've been walkin' in love land ever since you've been mine
The stars look so bright cause you're mine tonight
Walkin' in love land here with you
Walkin' in love land feelin' so grand
Walkin' in love land baby with you
Baby with you in love land with you
A walkin' with you baby with you
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Sweeten my coffee with a morning kiss
Soften my dreams with your sigh
After you've loved me for a million years
If it don't work out if it don't work out
Then you can tell me goodbye
If you must go I won't grieve
If you'll just wait a lifetime before you leave
But if you must go I won't say no
Just so we can say that we try
Tell me you love me for a million years
If it don't work out if it don't work out
Then you can tell me goodbye
Then you can tell me goodbye
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Like painted kites the days and nights went flying by
The world was new beneath the blue umbrella sky
Then softer than a piper man one day it called to you
I lost you to the summer wind (the summer wind)
The autumn winds the winter winds have come and gone
And still the days the lonely days go on and on
And guess who sighs these lullabys through nights that never end
My fickle friend the summer wind
The summer wind the summer wind (the summer wind)
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My dream is for you to love me like I love you
And to know you'll somehow always be here with met my dream
My dream is the dream of love a lifetime through
So come and share my dream and I'll share my life with you
My dream occupies my mind both day and night
And I hope someday my dreams will all come true girl with you my dream [ strings ]
And I'll share my life with you
I'll never love again I'm so in love with you
I'll never thrill again to somebody new
Within my heart I know I will never start
To smile again until I smile at you
I'll bring some raisins for Sandy to match the color of her eyes
And I'll kiss her brow she's a woman now though it's hard to relize
I'll bring some raisins for Sandy
And I'll bring red roses for my Mary the kind she loves the best
When her warm eyes say I long with you stay
I'll answer till I'm put to rest I'll bring red roses for my Mary
Don't ask why don't ask how
Don't ask forever love me now
This love of mine had no beginning it has no end
I was an oak now I'm a willow now I can bend
And though I'll never in my life see you again
Still I'll stay until it's time for you to go
Don't ask why of me don't ask how of me
Don't ask forever of me love me love me now
That there is someone to stand beside you turn around look at me
There is someone to love and guide you turn around look at me
I've been waiting but I'll wait forever for you to come to me
Look at someone who really loves you turn around look at me
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I can make you mine taste your lips of wine anytime night or day
Only trouble is gee whiz I'm dreaming my life away
I need you so that I could die I love you so and that is why
Whenever I want you all I have to do is dream all I have to do is dream
Little girls and little boys when they grow older change their toys
They learn that life's a hurting game but never know who's to blame
No more a child is the saddest line ever written in the sands of time
No matter how heavy the tide of tears no more can they wash away the fears
Pretty women grown off men try but can't go back again
And they're lost like all the toys they had as little girls and boys
(Everything's lost like all the toys) they had as little girls and boys
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It's near a town they say by the name of want to stay
Right near a little village called someday
It's just across the mountain where the big airliners fly
And I am gonna find it by and by
(It's near a town they say by the name of yesterday)
Right near a little village...
And I am gonna find it just across the mountain
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A flying dove please lead me and I'll follow you
Above the clouds beyond the stormy sea
I long to share a world of sweet contentment there
In that bright land where grows the olive tree
So let me fly please lead me and I'll follow you...
In that bright land where grows the olive tree
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