Eddy Arnold
Eddy Arnold was born in Henderson, Tennessee, United States on May 15th, 1918 and is the Country Singer. At the age of 89, Eddy Arnold biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Richard Edward "Eddy" Arnold (May 15, 1918 – May 8, 2008) was an American country music performer who appeared for six decades.
He was a Nashville sound (country/popular music) king of the late 1950s, and his album, 147, debuted on Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones.
He has more than 85 million albums.
Arnold was ranked 22nd on Country Music Television's top 40 Greatest Men of Country Music" in 2003, both the Grand Ole Opry (beginning 1943) and the Country Music Hall of Fame (beginning 1966).
Early years
Arnold was born on May 15, 1918 on a farm near Henderson, Tennessee. Although his mother played guitar, his father, a sharecropper, played the fiddle while his mother sang of it. Arnold's father died when he was just 11, forcing him to drop class and begin working on the family farm. He earned his nickname, the Tennessee Plowboy, later in life. Arnold attended Pinson High School in Pinson, Tennessee, where he played guitar for school functions and special occasions. He left before graduation to assist with farm duties, but he kept on performing, often landing on a mule with his guitar hanging on his back. Arnold served part-time as an assistant at a mortuary.
Arnold made his WTJS-AM debut in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1934. He began appearing in local nightclubs and was hired permanently by WTJS in 1937. He was recruited by WMPS-AM in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was one of the country's most popular performers. He left WMPS in St. Louis, Missouri, soon after being stationed at WHAS-AM in Louisville, Kentucky.
He appeared on the Grand Ole Opry as a solo artist for WSM (AM) during 1943. Arnold signed a RCA Victory contract in 1944, as well as General Tom Parker, who would later lead Elvis Presley. Arnold's first single was barely recognized, but "Each Minute Seems a Million Years" (where he appeared in fifth place on the country charts in 1945, ranked fifth on the country charts. Arnold's next 57 singles were all ranked in the top ten in the US country charts, with 19 of the 19 top-one wins starting a decade of unprecedented chart success; a decade of unprecedented chart success; and 19 number one successes.
Arnold's first major success with "That's How Much I Love You" was released in 1946. He had five hit songs on the charts simultaneously in 1948. He had nine songs in the top ten this year; five of them were number one and scored there for 40 weeks in the year's 52 weeks. Arnold continued to dominate, with 13 of the top-scoring country music songs of 1947-1948, under Parker's direction. He became the host of Mutual Radio's Checkerboard Jamboree's Purina-sponsored segment, a midday program based on Ernest Tubb's broadcast from a Nashville theater. Arnold's success soared as did CBS Radio's Hometown Reunion with the Duke of Paducah. Arnold left the Opry in 1948 and his Hometown Reunion was briefly broadcast in Opry competition on Saturday nights. He appeared in the Columbia films Feudin's Rhythm and Hoedown in 1949 and 1950.
Arnold began working on television in the early 1950s, hosting The Eddy Arnold Show. Both three television networks carried the summer series, replacing the Perry Como and Dinah Shore services. He appeared on ABC-TV show Ozark Jubilee from 1955 to 1960 as both a host and a guest host. Arnold appeared in the syndicated Eddy Arnold Time from 1955 to 1957. He appeared on NBC's Today on the Farm from 1960 to 1961.
Second career: The Nashville sound
With the rise of rock and roll in the mid 1950s, Arnold's record sales began to decline, though fellow RCA Victor country recording artist Jim Reeves found a greater audience with popular-sounding string-laced arrangements. Arnold annoyed many in the country music establishment by recording with Hugo Winterhalter and his Orchestra at the RCA Victor studios in New York. Winterhalter's pop-oriented arrangements of "The Cattle Call" and "The Richest Man (in the World)", however, helped to expand Arnold's appeal beyond its country music base. This style, pioneered by Reeves and Arnold, became known as the "Nashville Sound". During 1953, Arnold and Tom Parker had a dispute, and Arnold fired him. From 1954 to 1963, Arnold's performances were managed by Joe Csida; in 1964, Csida was replaced by Jerry Purcell.
Arnold embarked on a second career that brought his music to a more diverse audience. In the summer of 1965, he had his first number-one country song in 10 years, "What's He Doing in My World" and struck gold again six months later with the song that became his most well-known, "Make the World Go Away", accompanied by pianist Floyd Cramer on piano and featuring the Anita Kerr Singers. As a result, Arnold's rendition became an international success. "Make The World Go Away" became his only top ten pop hit.
Bill Walker's orchestra arrangements provided the lush background for 16 continuous successes sung by Arnold in the late 1960s. Arnold performed with symphony orchestras in New York City, Las Vegas, and Hollywood. He performed in Carnegie Hall for two concerts, and in the Coconut Grove in Las Vegas. In 1966, Arnold was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, the youngest performer to receive the honor. The following year, Arnold was voted the first-ever awarded Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year. Two years later, he released an autobiography named It's A Long Way From Chester County.
Having been with RCA Victor since 1944, Arnold left the label in 1973 for MGM Records, where he recorded four albums, which included several top-40 successes. He returned to RCA in 1976 and recorded for the company for the remainder of his career.