Girls! Girls! Girls!, Duane Eddy’s only self-produced album on Jamie Records, was part of marathon recording sessions in December 1959 and January 1960. They generated five singles, two extended plays and three hit album. All charted. Rather than teaming up with Lee Hazlewood, his original mentor and producer, Duane wrote and played with pianist Larry Knechtel, who was also to become a legendary session musician and artist.
Instead of the album template of those days featuring a smattering of singles mixed with covers of other current hits, Duane chose to do a concept album. His, one of the first in rock history, combined already-classic girl-named songs, like Ray Charles’s “Mary Ann” and Perez Prado’s “Patricia,” as well as Debbie Reynolds’s “Tammy,” with his own compositions honoring current stars, like those who appeared on the album cover with him – Brenda Lee and Annette Funicello.
This, Duane’s last studio album for Jamie, included the Nashville string section and backgrounds by the Jordonaires and Anita Kerr Singers, as described in