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"I Wanna Play House With You" is a 1951 song by Eddy Arnold, written by Cy Coben. The song went to number one on the Country & Western Best Seller lists for six weeks and a total of twenty-four weeks on the chart. [1] The B-side of "I Wanna Play House With You", entitled, "Something Old, Something New" (also a Coben composition) peaked at number seven on the same chart.

Eddy Arnold American country music singer, songwriter

Richard Edward "Eddy" Arnold was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a Nashville sound innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more than 85 million records. A member of the Grand Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame, Arnold ranked 22nd on Country Music Television's 2003 list of "The 40 Greatest Men of Country Music."

Seymour "Cy" Coben was an American songwriter, whose hits were recorded by bandleaders, country singers, and other artists such as The Beatles, Tommy Cooper and Leonard Nimoy.

The Buddy Holly song "I Wanna Play House With You", although sometimes credited to Coben, is a different song, a version of the song "Baby Let's Play House" by Arthur Gunther.

Buddy Holly 20th-century American singer-songwriter

Charles Hardin Holley, known as Buddy Holly, was an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. He was born in Lubbock, Texas, to a musical family during the Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing alongside his siblings. His style was influenced by gospel music, country music, and rhythm and blues acts, and he performed in Lubbock with his friends from high school.

Baby Lets Play House 1955 single by Elvis Presley

"Baby Let's Play House" is a song written by Arthur Gunter and recorded by him in 1954 on the Excello Records label and covered by Elvis Presley the following year on Sun Records.


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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.