[Vision2020] Eddy Arnold, Who Transformed Country Music, Dies at 89

Tue May 13 00:58:07 PDT 2008

Terminal oldness, I imagine. Dude was 90.

-- ACS

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Donovan Arnold
<donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> What did he die of?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Donovan
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> Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://www.mp3.com/albums/20066295/summary.html
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> Recall Eddy Arnold's dreamy version of Tex Owens' "Cattle Call," with what
> sounds to me like yodeling.  I heard this Eddy Arnold performance on a
> foreign short wave station recently, like  a broadcast from another planet.
> The Japanese enjoy US country music:
>
> http://www.jics.com/
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> For example, Japanese people do not think or say "Disco Sucks!" or "Country
> music is for country folk!"
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> http://www.answers.com/topic/tex-owens?cat=entertainment
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> It was Owens' full recording of "Cattle Call," made solo the following day,
> that ultimately proved more important, introducing a song he'd written and
> copyrighted in Kansas City that year. According to his wife, he'd written it
> ahead of a show during a snowstorm when they were stuck at the hotel where
> the radio station was headquartered, borrowing the melody from "The St. Paul
> Waltz." The song, one of four he recorded in Chicago that day, wasn't a
> success at the time, and Owens' relationship with Decca ended after that
> session. He next recorded ten songs for RCA in September of 1936, none of
> which -- including another version of "Cattle Call" -- were issued and all
> of which are lost today.
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> Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
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> On 5/12/08, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
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> > Eddy Arnold was great.
> > Roger
> > -----Original message-----
> > From: Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
> > Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 06:13:38 -0700
> > To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > Subject: [Vision2020] Eddy Arnold, Who Transformed Country Music, Dies at
> 89
> >
> > > Songs by Eddy Arnold:
> > >
> > > "Make the World Go Away"
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZf6m_ROIKo
> > >
> > > "What's He Doing in My World"
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTQDhgECSXU
> > >
> > > "Tennessee Stud"
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VcnVtvDtG8
> > >
> > > "I'll Hold You in My Heart"
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_p-_FLE0VY
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > >From today's (May 9, 2008) Spokesman Review -
> > >
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> > >
> > > Eddy Arnold, who transformed country music, dies at 89
> > >
> > > Eddy Arnold, the most successful country hit maker of all time, who
> played
> > > a crucial role in transforming what had long been considered "hillbilly
> > > music" from a rural phenomenon into music with national appeal, died
> > > Thursday at 89, a week short of his 90th birthday.
> > >
> > > Arnold, an elegant, pop-influenced singer, died at a long-term care
> > > facility near Nashville, Tenn., family spokesman and Arnold biographer
> Don
> > > Cusic said Thursday. His wife of 66 years, Sally, had died in March and
> > > Arnold had broken his hip the same month in a fall at his home.
> > >
> > > Determined to transcend the rural poverty he had known as a child in
> > > Tennessee, he carved out an identity as an urbane crooner unrestricted
> by
> > > the trappings associated with country music stardom. He has been
> > > called "the Garth Brooks of his time" for creating the template still
> > > followed for country singers who reach beyond a niche audience to
> capture
> > > a broad following, a move that angered many traditional country fans.
> > >
> > > "He epitomized how someone could become a huge star in this genre," Kyle
> > > Young, director of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in
> Nashville,
> > > said Thursday. "He certainly set the bar: He sold 80 million records,
> had
> > > his own TV show, filled in for Johnny Carson as a 'Tonight Show' host.
> In
> > > some ways his career defines what it's like to end up at the top of the
> > > heap."
> > >
> > > Arnold had a run of 57 consecutive top 10 hits from 1945 to 1954, among
> > > them "I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)," which
> > > spent more than five months at No. 1 in 1947, and "Bouquet of Roses,"
> > > which logged 19 weeks in the top spot the following year. Many of those
> > > songs, despite the twangy steel guitars and fiddles under his voice,
> > > appealed to large numbers of fans because of his mellow tenor, which was
> > > virtually free of a drawl.
> > >
> > > "More than anyone in the 1940s, he helped change the image of the music
> > > from 'hillbilly' to 'country,' " Robert Hilburn, the Los Angeles Times'
> > > former pop music critic, said Thursday. "He ranks with Johnny Cash as
> one
> > > of the great ambassadors of country music."
> > >
> > > Arnold's music had a huge effect on succeeding generations of country
> > > performers.
> > >
> > > "When I was about 15 years old, the only stuff I sang was Eddy Arnold,"
> > > George Jones said in a statement Thursday. "He would be just about my
> > > whole show. I'd sing 'Bouquet of Roses' and 'I'm Throwing Rice (at the
> > > Girl I Love).' All I sang was Eddy until I heard Hank Williams."
> > >
> > > Arnold acted as a mentor for younger singers.
> > >
> > > "He's given me a lot of advice," Josh Turner wrote in the liner notes
> for
> > > his 2006 album "Your Man," which reached No. 2 on Billboard's overall
> > > album chart, "but the one thing that stuck out in my mind when it came
> to
> > > making this record was when he told me, 'You go and record some love
> > > songs, because that's what people relate to.' He said, 'The relationship
> > > between a woman and a man relates to people better than anything else.'
> "
> > >
> > > Although Arnold's popularity dipped for a time in the late 1950s in the
> > > wake of rock 'n' roll's arrival, it rebounded in the 1960s, after a
> > > crucial change in the people guiding him musically and professionally.
> > > That led to another run of hits that crystallized what became known
> > > as "the Nashville sound," typified by swelling orchestral backgrounds
> and
> > > female choir voices behind songs such as "Make the World Go Away" and "I
> > > Want to Go With You," both No. 1 country hits.
> > >
> > > Arnold's career spanned seven decades, from the 1930s, when he hosted a
> > > radio show for five years in Memphis, until 1999, when he last appeared
> on
> > > the country singles chart with a duet with then-teenage singer LeAnn
> Rimes
> > > in a new version of his 1955 yodel-laden western hit "Cattle Call."
> > >
> > > In the latest edition of Joel Whitburn's "Top Country Songs" volume
> > > collating Billboard's charts from 1944 to 2005, Arnold is ranked as the
> > > No. 1 country artist of all time, logging 146 records in the Top 100 of
> > > Billboard's country singles chart, 28 of those making it to No. 1.
> > >
> > > Richard Edward Arnold, born May 15, 1918, in Henderson, Tenn., grew up
> > > working on his parents' farm, only to see it repossessed during the
> > > Depression, after which the family became sharecroppers on what had been
> > > their own land.
> > >
> > > His father died when Eddy was 11, so the boy started singing at church
> > > picnics and other events.
> > >
> > > "His childhood made such an impression on him," Young said. "I would say
> > > he was driven, probably until his last breath, because he was still
> > > worried that some day he might wake up penniless."
> > >
> > > Where other country stars flashed their success with bejeweled cowboy
> > > outfits, silver-dollar-covered luxury cars and guitar-shaped swimming
> > > pools, Arnold remained the low-key country gentleman, quietly parlaying
> > > the money from his hit records into lucrative real estate investments in
> > > and around Nashville.
> > >
> > > Critic Hilburn said: "He was a humble guy who didn't seem to care all
> that
> > > much about the razzle-dazzle surrounding the music business. He was just
> > > into going onstage (or into the studio) and singing his songs and then
> > > enjoying his hobbies and private life."
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Bless you, Eddy, now on tour with the angels
> > >
> > > Seeya round town, Moscow.
> > >
> > > Tom Hansen
> > > Moscow, Idaho
> > >
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