Singing Down the Lane | ||||
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Released | 1956 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Label | RCA Victor | |||
Jim Reeves chronology | ||||
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Singing Down the Lane is an album recorded by country music singer Jim Reeves. Released in June 1956, [1] it was his first album for RCA Victor. [2] [3]
In November 1957, Billboard magazine reported on its annual poll of country music disc jockeys. Singing Down the Lane ranked No. 10 among the "Favorite C&W Albums" of the preceding year. [4]
The liner notes on the album's back cover summed up the album: "There are no slow, strained moments in the long-playing tracks of this album. The title of the album was the keynote . . and the barometer was reading 'Spring' . . . and the handsome fellow from Texas was striding down the lane with an even dozen of his best vocals." [2]
Reeves' biographer Larry Jordan criticized the record company for the album's weak packaging—a black-and-white photograph of Reeves that had been "tinted a garish green" and that showed him "wearing a toupee that looked like some sort of an animal ready to leap off his head." [3] Jordan also criticized Reeves' "full bore" and unrestrained delivery on several tracks, lacking the subtlety and mellowness that marked his later RCA Victor recordings. [3]
The Juke Box Rebel ranked it No. 13 among the albums released in 1956. [5]
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Singing Down the Lane | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1956 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Label | RCA Victor | |||
Jim Reeves chronology | ||||
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Singing Down the Lane is an album recorded by country music singer Jim Reeves. Released in June 1956, [1] it was his first album for RCA Victor. [2] [3]
In November 1957, Billboard magazine reported on its annual poll of country music disc jockeys. Singing Down the Lane ranked No. 10 among the "Favorite C&W Albums" of the preceding year. [4]
The liner notes on the album's back cover summed up the album: "There are no slow, strained moments in the long-playing tracks of this album. The title of the album was the keynote . . and the barometer was reading 'Spring' . . . and the handsome fellow from Texas was striding down the lane with an even dozen of his best vocals." [2]
Reeves' biographer Larry Jordan criticized the record company for the album's weak packaging—a black-and-white photograph of Reeves that had been "tinted a garish green" and that showed him "wearing a toupee that looked like some sort of an animal ready to leap off his head." [3] Jordan also criticized Reeves' "full bore" and unrestrained delivery on several tracks, lacking the subtlety and mellowness that marked his later RCA Victor recordings. [3]
The Juke Box Rebel ranked it No. 13 among the albums released in 1956. [5]
Side A
Side B