Especially for You (Duane Eddy album)

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Especially for You
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 1959
RecordedMarch 13–20, 1959
StudioAudio Recorders, Phoenix, Arizona
Genre Instrumental rock
Length47:50
Label Jamie
Producer Lee Hazlewood, Lester Sill
Duane Eddy chronology
Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel
(1958)
Especially for You
(1959)
The "Twangs" the "Thang"
(1959)
Singles from Especially for You
  1. "Yep!"
    Released: March 1959
  2. "Peter Gunn"
    Released: June 1959 (UK)
    September 1960 (US)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Especially for You is the second album by guitarist Duane Eddy. It was released in 1959. Unlike most albums of the time, it was not built around singles but was a collection of originals and cover material that featured Eddy's guitar playing.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Duane Eddy and Lee Hazlewood unless noted

  1. "Peter Gunn" (Henry Mancini) – 2:30
  2. "Only Child" – 3:34
  3. "Lover" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 1:41
  4. "Fuzz" – 2:20
  5. "Yep!" – 2:14
  6. "Along the Navajo Trail" (Dick Charles, Eddie DeLange, Larry Markes) – 2:36
  7. "Just Because" (Sydney Robin, Joe Shelton, Bob Shelton) – 2:42
  8. "Quiniela" – 5:02
  9. "Trouble in Mind" (Richard M. Jones) – 1:51
  10. "Tuxedo Junction" (Julian Dash, Buddy Feyne, Erskine Hawkins, William Johnson) – 2:43
  11. "Hard Times" (Noble "Thin Man" Watts) – 2:58
  12. "Along Came Linda" (Eddy) – 2:34
  1. "Only Child" [alternate take] – 2:55
  2. "Yep!" [alternate take] – 3:04
  3. "St. James" – 5:08
  4. "Some Kind-a Earthquake" [alternate take] – 1:47
  5. "First Love, First Tears" – 2:11

Personnel

Technical

Chart positions

YearTitleU.S. Billboard 200 UK Albums Chart [2] !!Label and catalogue
1958Especially for You246 [3] Jamie JLPS-3006

Singles

YearTitles
Both sides from that album except where indicated
Chart positions
Billboard [4] Cashbox UK [5]
1959"Yep!"
b/w "Three-30-Blues" (from Have "Twangy" Guitar Will Travel)
30 [6] 2717
1960"Peter Gunn"
b/w "Along the Navajo Trail"
27 [6] 266 [3]

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References

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