Twangin' The Golden Hits - Duane Eddy

 

Rumble

Twangin' The Golden Hits

Duane Eddy

Produced by Al Schmitt and Duane Eddy

Musical Director: Al Casey

Recorded in RCA Victor's Music Center of the World, Hollywood, California

Recording Engineer: Jim Malloy

Cover and Liner photos by Ken Whitmore

RCA Victor LSP-2993 STEREO

From the back cover: The sound of music for the past decade has been a very special sound- a driving, percussive beat to match and inspire the dancing younger generation, plus a clear-voiced guitar that could take off and carry a melody wherever it had to go.

No one more than Duane Eddy has captured the sound of the decade and put it on record. Starting back in '58 with Rebel Rouser, Duane and his so-called twangy guitar have been setting the pace for break- ing and building the new "standards" of popular music.

All the songs in this album have been big instrumental hits, million- seller hits. Some of them were the private discoveries of sharp-eared teen-agers who picked them out of disc jockey play lists, voted with their dimes at the corner juke box, requested the tunes at clubs and dances and, most of all, bought the records. This is how it happened with Raunchy, Last Date, Tequila, Honky Tonk and Rumble.

But good songs come from all sources, and if they can take the treatment they've got a chance to make it big. Stranger on the Shore, Shangri-La and Swingin' Shepherd Blues were far from rock-and-roll when they first became hits, but Duane Eddy has now turned them into solid discotheque dance music. The same can be said for The River Kwai March, More (Theme from "Mondo Cane") and the Theme from "A Summer Place," all three of them movie tunes that served one pur- pose magnificently and have now been transformed into the guitar- percussion idiom of today.

With Duane Eddy out front with his powerful guitar, a rock-solid rhythm section driving home the beat, and an unusual virtuoso performance by Jim Horn on tenor sax, alto sax, flute, clarinet and piccolo, this album becomes an extraordinary example of modern music that demands dancing and listening. It is Duane Eddy at his twangin' best. – Hal Levy

Rebel Rouser

Raunchy

Shangri-La

Last Date

Honky Tonk

Theme from "A Summer Place"

Tequila

Stranger On The Shore

More (theme from "Mondo Cane")

The River Kwai March

Swingin' Shepherd Blues

Rumble