On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Brad Bechtel wrote:
> Does anyone know of a good CD featuring Little Roy Wiggins' lap steel
> playing with Eddie Arnold? There seem to be a few different Arnold
> compilations, but I'm looking for one featuring his earlier work.
You'll find very little early Eddy Arnold on any of the available
compilations, save the recently released Bear Family box. (There's two or
three early tunes on RCA's falsely titled Essential Eddy Arnold CD, but a
lot of the others are actually later remakes.) There's also a
hard-to-find Japanese import that I was fortunate enough to pick up a
coupla years ago titled (I believe) Early Recordings. It's wonderful
stuff. And if you haven't yet thrown your turntable away, Brad, you might
wanna try to snag the fairly easily located vinyl album Anytime. A number
of the young Eddy Arnold's biggest and best can be found on there.--don
