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So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed

"So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed" is a 1947 song by Merle Travis, written by Travis, Eddie Kirk, and Cliffie Stone.

"So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed"

"Sweet Temptaton"

January 8, 1947 (1947-01-08) by American Music, Inc., Hollywood[1]

January 1947 (1947-01)[2]

October 19, 1946 (1946-10-19)[3]

Radio Recorders, Los Angeles

Hillbilly

2:59

Capitol 349

Merle Travis, Cliffie Stone, Eddie Kirk

Lee Gillette

Background[edit]

The song describes a woman through the use of advertising slogans. The slogan "So round, so firm, so fully packed, so free and easy on the draw" was used in the Lucky Strike brand cigarette advertising of the time, first heard in 1944 on the Jack Benny and Your Hit Parade radio programs. "I'd walk a mile" is a slogan for Camel cigarettes. "Just ask the man who owns one" refers to Packard automobiles.[4] "She's got the pause that's so refreshing" is a reference to the Coca-Cola slogan "The Pause that Refreshes".

Chart performance[edit]

The song was Travis' second number one on the Folk Juke Box charts, where it stayed at number one for 14 weeks and a total of 21 weeks on the chart.[5]

In 1947 it was also a #3 hit for , and a #5 hit for Ernest Tubb.

Johnny Bond

covered the song on his 1954 album Eddy Arnold: An American Institution and his 1956 album A Dozen Hits.

Eddy Arnold

covered the song on his 1981 album Waitin' for the Sun to Shine.

Ricky Skaggs