Eddy Arnold Biography

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Eddy Arnold
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Eddy Arnold was born Richard Edward Arnold on May 15, 1918 on a farm near Henderson, Tennessee. On his eleventh birthday, his father died, forcing Eddy out of school and onto the family farm, which foreclosed later that year (1929-30; the start of the Great Depression). However, the family remained as sharecroppers. Music was a part of the Arnold family because Eddy's father was an old time fiddler and he taught his son guitar around the age of ten. While working the farm, young Eddy was also hired to play at local barn dances and by the age of eighteen he was on the radio in Jackson, Tennessee. Music became a career choice for Arnold a few years later when he joined Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys, a move that put him on the Grand Ole Opry and then on the Opry's touring Camel Caravan Show. By this time (1943) he was known as the Tennessee Plowboy and was on a solo career that saw him get signed to RCA Records and eventually release his first chart entry in 1945, "Each Minute Seems a Million Years." He soon replaced Roy Acuff as the reigning country artist, charting an amazing 21 No. 1 singles amid 68 hit singles that made country charts. But Arnold was not a strictly country artist. His ballad style crossed over to pop charts in the '50s and '60s, including the 1965 No. 6 hit "Make the World Go Away." He had worked on making an image for himself and frequently wore a tuxedo and bow tie while performing. And he made Colonel Tom Parker his manager, put him in the same managerial camp as Elvis Presley. Parker's publicity stunts for Arnold helped the singer along but Arnold eventually tired of Parker's style and apparently fired him. Arnold's crossover style had him appear on many major radio and TV shows during the '50s, shows such as Perry Como's, Milton Berle's, Dinah Shore's, and Bob Hope's. He also had his own shows on network TV. He also appeared at Carnegie Hall and even appeared in concert with symphony orchestras. If his country fans were less than happy with his changing musical image, his general popularity was enormous among the greater pop audience. Between 1956 and 1983, Eddy Arnold increased his charted singles to more than 140 and his No. 1 hits to 28, many of his songs doing so well because of his crossover success. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1966. He's been in semi-retirement since the mid-80's and resides near Nashville.

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