Eddie Low In USA And Canada

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Release Date: 1976

Label: Joe Brown

Tracks A1-A3 and B6 recorded in Nashville — Produced by Bill Walker.
Tracks B1-B5 recorded in Toronto — Produced by Gary Buck.
Tracks A4-A6 — recorded "LIVE".

A couple of years back, I was compiling an hour long radio documentary, "THE EDDIE LOW STORY". It wasn't easy. I had just 60 minutes, but so much material that I was having difficulty deciding what to omit.
To that point in his extraordinary career, this incredibly talented musical Superstar had reached many pinnacles. He was quite firmly entrenched at the very top of his profession in New Zealand, but had found time to answer the call from far distant countries that had also learned of his prowess.
Together with his management, I travelled with EDDIE to the United States in October 1973. He'd been invited to represent his Country on the International Show, a feature of the Country Music Association's annual D.J. Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.
The partially blind, but brilliant, Maori entertainer brought the house down. I stood proudly, along with some 3,000 hard core music business people as they cheered him back to centre stage for the show's only encore.
The same acclaim followed a guest appearance on the Grand Ole Opry Show, earning him a treasured compliment from the great TEX RITTER who remarked: "EDDIE LOW — he makes TOM JONES look like a sharecropper!"
What followed is what EDDIE himself describes as the fulfilment of his greatest ambition. He was invited to record in the Nashville Sound Studios, under the direction of BILL WALKER, the musical director of the popular JOHNNY CASH television series. GRADY MARTIN, lead guitarist on many of ELVIS PRESLEY's hits was on the session.
More was to follow. EDDIE LOW travelled to Canada and made a tremendous impact on the Canadian Music Industry in what seemed to be the fastest six months anyone ever spent in that country. After guesting on a host of television series, he went into the recording studios in Toronto.
This time the session was produced by GARY BUCK, a highly respected and potent force in the Industry in Canada. He took a great interest in EDDIE and can be heard with him on "Pokarekare Ana", the maori love ballad included here.
EDDIE returned to America recently and recorded "You're Everything That Love's Supposed To Be". This has become a monster hit that is still selling in several countries.
The musical results of these recording sessions in the United States and Canada are gathered together on this superb album. Proven hits are blended with hitherto unreleased material, along with three tracks taken from 'live' performances. Audiences around the world have experienced the magnetism of this multi-talented and truly INTERNATIONAL entertainer.
— Neil Collins, Disc Jockey, Compere, Columist, Dunedin, N.Z.

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