Love's Eternal Triangle - Roy Drusky & Priscilla Mitchell

 

Back Street Affair

Love's Eternal Triangle 

Roy Drusky & Priscilla Mitchell

Cover Photo: Fairy's Studio/Bill Forshee

Mercury Records MG 21035

1965

From the back cover: This album is something special. It brings together names in the field of Country and Western music – Roy Drusky and Priscilla Mitchell – and it gives them twelve of the best country-styled duets ever put to music.

The selections have two things in common. First, they are some of the best Country tunes every written. And second, they deal exclusively with the heartbreak, and humor, associated with the romantic triangle. Listen to the wonderfully subtle "Yes, Mr. Peters," and you'll hear a girl phoning a man who refers to her as "Mr. Peters" to fool his wife, who is hearing his end of the conversation. In "Trouble On Our Line," a husband steps out to phone a girlfriend, but dials his own number by mistake, and gets his wife, who was expecting a call from her lover." "Just Between The Two Of Us" finds a married couple confessing that the real reason their friends think they are so happily married, is that they don't even care enough for each other to get in an argument. And what could be more bitter-sweet than the words of two lovers who have drifted apart, but are still so much in love that they name their children after each other to keep the memories alive ("More Than We Deserve").

As was said before, this is a special album. Not only in its choice of songs, but in the inspired paring of these two fast-rising young country singers. Roy, a graduate of the "Grand Ole Opry." has appeared on countless TV shows including "Ozark Jubilee" and "The Dick Clark Bandstand" and is the author as well as performer of many of the biggest hits. Priscilla, at 24, has been a radio singer since she was 4, and has worked with the Jordanaires, the Merry Melody Singers and other Nashville-based groups. Together they form one of the truly great new teams in the history of Country and Western music.

From Billboard - August 7, 1965: Backing up their tremendous country music hit, "Yes, Mr. Peters," Roy Drusky and Priscilla Mitchell have here a heart-tearing selection of songs about love triangles and cheatin' lovers. Plus, of course they're hit. Other standouts include "Back Street Affair" and "Just Between The Two Of Us."

Yes, Mr. Peters

One By One

Back Street Affair 

Trouble On Our Line

We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds

Just Between The Two Of Us

We Must Look In The Mirror

Slippin' Around

We Couldn't Tell A Child

Don't Let Me Cross Over

Let's Do What's Right Even If It's Wrong 

More Than We Deserve