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The Cattle Call

"The Cattle Call"
Single by Tex Owens
B-sidePride of the Prairie[1]
PublishedSeptember 14, 1934 (1934-09-14) by Forster Music Publisher, Inc., Chicago[2]
ReleasedOctober 1934 (1934-10)[1]
RecordedAugust 28, 1934 (1934-08-28)[3]
StudioChicago, Illinois[3]
GenreFolk
Length3:09
LabelDecca 5015[1]
Songwriter(s)Tex Owens[2]

"The Cattle Call" is a song written and recorded in 1934 by American songwriter and musician Tex Owens.[4] The melody was adapted from Bruno Rudzinksi's 1928 recording "Pawel Walc".[5] It later became a signature song for Eddy Arnold. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.[6]

Owens wrote the song in Kansas City while watching the snow fall. "Watching the snow, my sympathy went out to cattle everywhere, and I just wished I could call them all around me and break some corn over a wagon wheel and feed them. That's when the words 'cattle call' came to my mind. I picked up my guitar, and in thirty minutes I had wrote the music and four verses to the song," he said.[7] His August 28, 1934 recording was among the first for the newly formed Decca Record Company.[3] He recorded it again in 1936.

"The Cattle Call"
Single by Eddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys
B-sideEach Minute Seems a Million Years[8]
ReleasedMay 14, 1945 (1945-05-14)[8]
RecordedDecember 4, 1944 (1944-12-04)[9]
StudioWSM Radio Station Studio, Nashville, TN[9]
GenreHillbilly-Country
Length3:06
LabelBluebird 33-0527[8]
"The Cattle Call"
Single by Eddy Arnold
from the album Eddy Arnold Sings
ReleasedNovember 18, 1949 (1949-11-18)[10]
RecordedSeptember 14, 1949 (1949-09-14)[9]
Length2:27
LabelRCA Victor 48-0136[10]
Producer(s)Stephen H. Sholes[9]
Eddy Arnold singles chronology
"One Kiss Too Many / The Echo of Your Footsteps"
(1949) 		"The Cattle Call"
(1949) 		"I'm Throwing Rice (At The Girl That I Love)"
(1949)
"The Cattle Call"
Single by Eddy Arnold with Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra And Chorus
ReleasedJune 14, 1955 (1955-06-14)[11]
RecordedApril 28, 1955 (1955-04-28)
StudioWebster Hall, New York City
Length2:34
LabelRCA Victor 20-6139[11]
Producer(s)Stephen H. Sholes
"Cattle Call"
Single by Eddy Arnold with LeAnn Rimes
from the album Seven Decades of Hits and Blue
B-side"I Walk Alone"
ReleasedNovember 16, 1999 (1999-11-16)[12]
Recorded1996
Length3:09
LabelCurb
Songwriter(s)Tex Owens
Producer(s)
  • Chuck Howard
  • Wilbur C. Rimes
  • Bob Campbell-Smith
  • Johnny Mulhair
  • Greg Walker
LeAnn Rimes singles chronology
"Big Deal"
(1999) 		"Cattle Call"
(1999) 		"Crazy"
(1999)
  1. ^ a b c "Decca 5015 (10-in. double-faced)". Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
  2. ^ a b Library of Congress. Copyright Office. (1934). Catalog of Copyright Entries 1934 Musical Compositions New Series Vol 29 Pt 3 For the Year 1934. United States Copyright Office. U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
  3. ^ a b c "Decca matrix C 9355. Cattle call / Tex Owens". Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
  4. ^ "ASCAP ACE - Search Results". Archived from the original on 2006-02-12. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
  5. ^ Sullivan, Steve (2017). Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings. p. 190.
  6. ^ Western Writers of America (2010). "The Top 100 Western Songs". American Cowboy. Archived from the original on 19 October 2010.
  7. ^ "Nashville Songwriter's Foundation -". www.nashvillesongwritersfoundation.com. Archived from the original on 29 January 2009. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  8. ^ a b c "Bluebird 33-0527 (33-0500 series (10-in. Country songs))". Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
  9. ^ a b c d "Victor matrix D4AB-0519. The cattle call / Eddy Arnold; Tennessee Plowboys". Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
  10. ^ a b "Victor 21-0133 (10-in. double-faced). Eddy Arnold Sings (Album P-260)". Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
  11. ^ a b "RCA Victor 78rpm numerical listing discography: 20-6000 - 6500". www.78discography.com. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
  12. ^ "Eddie Arnold - Cattle Call [CD5/Cassette Single] Album Reviews, Songs & More". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
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