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"Each Minute Seems a Million Years"
Single by Eddy Arnold
B-side The Cattle Call [1]
ReleasedMay 14, 1945 (1945-05-14) [1]
RecordedDecember 4, 1944 (1944-12-04) [2]
StudioWSM Radio Station Studio, Nashville, TN [2]
Genre Hillbilly-Country
Label Bluebird 33-0527 [1]
Songwriter(s)Alton "Cook" Watson [2]

"Each Minute Seems a Million Years" is a country music song written by Alton "Cook" Watson and sung by Eddy Arnold, billed as "Eddy Arnold, The Tennessee Plowboy and His Guitar". It was released in 1945 on the RCA Victor label (catalog no. 20-2067-A) with "You Must Walk the Line" as the "B" side. [3] In debuted on the Billboard folk chart on June 30, 1945 and peaked at No. 5. [4] It was Arnold's first of 128 hit singles for Arnold. [4] [5]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Bluebird 33-0527 (33-0500 series (10-in. Country songs))". Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
  2. ^ a b c "Victor matrix D4AB-0520. Each minute seems a million years / Eddy Arnold ; Tennessee Plowboys". Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
  3. ^ "Eddy Arnold And His Tennessee Plowboys - Each Minute Seems A Million Years / You Must Walk The Line". Discogs. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
  4. ^ a b Joel Whitburn (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits. Billboard Books. p. 27. ISBN  0823076326.
  5. ^ Stambler, Irwin; Grelun Landon; Lyndon Stambler (2000). Country Music: An Encyclopedia. Macmillan Publishers. pp. 17–19. ISBN  978-0-312-26487-1. Retrieved July 15, 2009.