It's a Sin (Eddy Arnold song)

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"It's A Sin"
Single by Eddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys
B-side "I Couldn't Believe It Was True"
PublishedMay 11, 1947 (1947-05-11) by Millene Music, Nashvillle [1]
ReleasedApril 12, 1947 (1947-04-12) [2]
RecordedSeptember 24, 1946 (1946-09-24) [3]
Studio RCA Victor 24th Street, New York City [3]
Genre Country
Length2:33
Label RCA Victor 20-2241
Songwriter(s) Fred Rose, Zeb Turner [1]
Eddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys singles chronology
"What Is Life Without Love"
(1946)
"It's A Sin"
(1947)
"I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)"
(1947)

"It's a Sin" is a country song written by country guitarist Zeb Turner and music publisher Fred Rose. The 1947 version by Eddy Arnold was his second number one on the Country & Western charts, spending five weeks at number one and a total of thirty-eight weeks on the chart. [4] The B-side of "It's a Sin", a song entitled, "I Couldn't Believe it Was True" would peak at number four on the same chart.

A cover by Marty Robbins peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1969. [5]

It has also been recorded by Bill Haley & His Comets (1957), Elvis Presley (1961), Don Gibson (1962), George Jones (1965), Dottie West (1969), Del Wood (1980), and Willie Nelson (1995).

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References

  1. 1 2 Library of Congress. Copyright Office. (1946). Catalog of Copyright Entries 1946 Musical Compositions Renewals New Series Vol 41 Pt 3. United States Copyright Office. U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
  2. "Victor 20-2241 (10-in. double-faced)". Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved 2023-07-29.
  3. 1 2 "Victor matrix D6VB-2893. It's a sin / Eddy Arnold". Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved 2023-07-29.
  4. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 29.
  5. "Marty Robbins singles". Allmusic . Retrieved 30 March 2011.