The album debuted on Billboard magazine's Top Country Albums chart on December 24, 1966, spent two weeks at No. 1, and remained on the chart for a total of 36 weeks. The album included two hit singles: "Somebody Like Me" (No. 1) and "The Tip of My Fingers" (No. 3).[2]
AllMusic gave the album a rating of two stars.[3] Reviewer Greg Adams called it "one of the blandest middle-of-the-road pop records Eddy Arnold made in the '60s, [and] also one of his most commercially successful."[3]