Especially for You

by Duane Eddy

Overview

Duane Eddy's second LP contained just one hit, "Yep," although "Peter Gunn" would enter the Top 40 when it was issued later in 1960. Unlike his debut Have "Twangy" Guitar Will Travel, it was not built around singles with a few songs to stretch it to album length, with all of the songs (except "Yep") being recorded in a week. Give Eddy this much credit: at a time when virtually all rock & roll LPs were hasty, knocked-together jobs, he did at least try to vary the program. There were slow blues ("Only Child"), pop standards (Rodgers & Hart's "Lover"), a rather long jazzy workout ("Quiniela"), original material in the mold of his hits, sax-driven R&B (a cover of Noble "Thin Man" Watts' "Hard Times"), and poppy stuff with strings and wordless female backup vocals that sounded like themes for B-movie westerns ("Along the Navajo Trail"). It still added up to a pretty inconsequential instrumental album in which the hits ("Peter Gunn" and "Yep") boasted much more arresting hooks than the surrounding tunes. Eddy sounds like he's tearing a page from Les Paul's book on "Lover," with its very atypical (for Eddy) arrangement of hyper-fast guitar licks. ~ Richie Unterberger

Product Details

Release Date:	04/25/2000
Label:	Jamie/Guyden
UPC:	0647780401025
Rank:	128330

Tracks

1. Peter Gunn
2. Only Child
3. Lover
4. Fuzz
5. Yep!
6. Along the Navajo Trail
7. Just Because
8. Quiniela
9. Trouble in Mind
10. Tuxedo Junction
11. Hard Times
12. Along Came Linda
13. Only Child
14. Yep!
15. St. James
16. Some Kinda Earthquake
17. First Love, First Tears

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Duane Eddy   Primary Artist,Guitar

Technical Credits

Bob Shelton   Composer
Larry Markes   Composer
Jack Miller   Engineer
Greg Vaughn   Mastering
Eddie Brackett   Engineer
Erskine Hawkins   Composer
Duane Eddy   Composer
Lorenz Hart   Composer
Dick Charles   Composer
Lee Hazlewood   Composer,Producer
Lester Sill   Producer
Richard M. Jones   Composer
Noble "Thin Man" Watts   Composer
Buddy Feyne   Composer
Tom Moulton   Mastering
Henry Mancini   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Julian Dash   Composer
William Johnson   Composer
Joe Shelton   Composer
Sydney Robin   Composer
Eddie DeLange   Composer