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"Easy on the Eyes" is a 1952 single by Eddy Arnold, written by Arnold and songwriter Cy Coben. "Easy on the Eyes" was Eddy Arnold's forty-sixth entry on the Country & Western chart. The single went to number one on the Best Seller list with a total of fourteen weeks on the chart. [1]

Carly Simon's 1992 album This Is My Life , soundtrack to the movie This is My Life, had a song on it titled "Easy on the Eyes" which is a different song, composed by Carly Simon and Andy Goldberg.

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 30.