"The Echo of Your Footsteps" is a

country music Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is p ...

song written by

Jenny Lou Carson Jenny Lou Carson, (January 13, 1915 – December 16, 1978), born Virginia Lucille Overstake, was an American country music singer-songwriter and the first woman to write a No. 1 country music hit. From 1945 to 1955 she was one of the most prolif ...

and sung by

Eddy Arnold Richard Edward Arnold (May 15, 1918 – May 8, 2008) was an American country music singer. He was a Nashville sound (country/popular music) innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the ''Billboard'' country music charts, second onl ...

, billed as "Eddy Arnold, The Tennessee Plowboy and His Guitar". It was released in 1949 on the

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label (catalog no. 21-0051-A). The "B" side was "One Kiss Too Many". It debuted on ''

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'' magazine's folk chart on May 21, 1949, peaked at No. 2 on the best seller chart (No. 3 juke box), and remained on the charts for 19 weeks. On ''Billboard''s year-end folk chart, it ranked No. 11 among the best selling record of 1949.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Echo of Your Footsteps, The Eddy Arnold songs 1948 songs 1949 singles Songs written by Jenny Lou Carson

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