It’s funny, I still consider Arnold and all his “countrypolitan” co-horts as genuine country, far more so than the boot-scootin’, Big & Dumb & Riches out there today. But back in the day they probably upset the purists just as much as the Shania Twains repulse me today.

Didn’t he sing and play in some movies or tee vee shows?
His voice sure sounds familiar.

Classic!

Things are going backward in time as far as work environments go, so this song is more relevant today!
Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBkrAESUbyI

Anyone for sausages?
Jimmy Dean - Big Bad John
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related

Thanks! I enjoyed that. Why is it that when an artist dies, their work becomes more interesting?

Oh, I love Tennessee Stud. Thank you.

My grandma is welcoming him to her heaven. Heck even when I was in my phase of hating country music I still appreciated Eddy Arnold and that amazing voice.

RIP Eddy

Exokie @ 8:

My grandma is welcoming him to her heaven. Heck even when I was in my phase of hating country music I still appreciated Eddy Arnold and that amazing voice.

RIP Eddy

My grandma too! Ditto RIP Eddy.

He was warm and personable.
The Ernie Ford, Jimmy Dean school.

I’ve always been partial to this guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsGb52-f768
Chet Atkins.

Eddy Arnold’s “Make The World Go Away” was guaranteed to make me cry almost everytime I heard it. Do not consider myself a country music fan in any way, shape or form, but this song did it for me. RIP Eddy Arnold and thanks for some great music!

Ah, man, this takes me back.
Eddy Arnold and Ray Price were regulars at dinnertime around my house, so long ago.

My folks had a few records when I was a little kid in the sixties, nothing special like Davis, or Brubeck, just Don Ho, Burl Ives and the like. They were in their 40’s, so I’m surprised they had any at all. They had one from Eddy Arnold, and one from Andy Williams. I listened to the two records a lot back then, and today they are among my all time favorites. I have picked up a lot of Arnold’s vinyl at thrift shops, but never heard “Cattle Call”. That was really nice, thanks.

I don’t think I ever saw him sing on TV. I just remember him doing a commercial for “Log Cabin” syrup. In a write up about him today there was a quote from Dinah Shore, “His voice was like warm butter, and syrup being poured over pancakes”.

You can almost hear a young Buck Owens thinking to himself, “Sheeit. I’m going to be a millionaire”.

If I were a fan of over-produced horse shit I would be sitting at the feet of everybody on the front page of this very cornball web site.

“Hey, I used to spin the disks of these guys even while California was turning away from the incredible regime of The Eagles.”

Dinosaurs?

I’m one, but I try not to let on.

Everbody who is anybody can use a little Eddy Arnold now and then.

Silly throwbacks from 1973.

Eddy Arnold was great. I loved him when he starred in the TV show Green Acres with Eva Gabor. Those two were hilarious.

i kind of like eddie and thought slim whittman was really great!

oh hell thier were many country singers i didnt like i got all thier songs on tape includeing jimmy rogers the singing breakman , and later his son ! jimmy jr!

sorry werent its late!

its allright folks clinton supporters dont bite!

17 eroded47095
You can go back to little green football now!

i liked him on grean achers

I know that Eddy Arnold was NOT on Green Acres. He did have his own musical show on tv for a while. Mr. Arnold is the only “country” musician I could listen to. I really hate the “my baby left me and Im gonna jump off a bridge” genre of country music.

Mr. Arnold’s music was and is classic.

I sure hope Eddy is making music in heaven now. RIP, sir.

RickinSF @ 13:

Ah, man, this takes me back.
Eddy Arnold and Ray Price were regulars at dinnertime around my house, so long ago.

Mine also brother.

“If you’re a fan of the commercial, over-produced Nashville sound, you probably revere Arnold’s musical style and gigantic influence.” Wow! that’s a backhanded compliment for one dead singer and for his listeners. Do you feel your cool threatened by him?

The Fendermen

Mule Skinner Blues

Ella Mae Morse

Cow Cow Boogie

“Tennessee Stud” needs credit to the songwriter, Jimmy Driftwood. He was a prolific writer (remember “Battle of New Orleans” about the same time?) who wrote for his high-school history students so that they could more easily remember facts. “Stud” was loosely based on a real event a couple generations back in his family. Northern Arkansas still remembers him.

Andy K Jong Il @ 29:

Ella Mae Morse

Cow Cow Boogie

Thanks Andy, I luv this kinda stuff. I really enjoyed that.

drago @ 18:

Eddy Arnold was great. I loved him when he starred in the TV show Green Acres with Eva Gabor. Those two were hilarious.

I don’t mean to contradict, but Eddy Albert starred, opposite Eva Gabor, on Green Acres.
No mean entertainer himself, but he wasn’t Eddy Arnold.

Yea I grew up in the Florida sticks (pre mickey the rat) and all there was was county radio. I hated the music and used to listen to WKOK in Ft Wayne Indiana late at night to hear R & R.

50 years later I have a soft spot in my heart for all that twangy music but not the nashville sound. In 1976 country flirted with the worst compilation ever, county disco, with the song that made me jump out of bed on a cold morning and smash the radio clock to pieces, “I can’t wait any Longer” (chick a boom)

An old friend of mine used to sing with Eddy Arnold back in the 50’s. She said he was her favorite out of all the people she appeared or recorded with (including Elvis). My friend was a child singer - billed as the little girl with the big voice. Most adult performers’ weren’t always kind to kids - but she always said Arnold was a peach.

And the Arnold some of you are associating with the TV show Green Acres is Eddie Albert the actor (also deceased). Arnold Ziffel was a character in Green Acres (the pig).

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Brings back many memories of the old days on the Ranch!
thanks for this!

Thank you for mentioning Eddie Arnold. He was a beautiful man and memories come flooding back when I hear his music.

What memories? Memories of my Mom and my Dad being so in love back in the 1950’s when they were having their kids.

Both my parents are passed away and this music brings back sweet memories and wishes that they are listening from where they are.

Thanks again for showing love and respect for Eddy Arnold. He gave so much pleasure and love to his generation.

Condolences to all who loved him.

My Eddie Arnold record is getting a work out today being played over and over. His Cattle Call is playing now, and it was the song that was soo cowboy and catchy that made me love all his work. A lovely, hard working talent. It makes me sad.
Thanks to Yellowbird for his sentiment and I’d like to add my sypathy also to his family and friends.

Thanks for the memories, Eddy. Growing up listening to Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers and then rock and roll as it evolved I loved a few of the crossover country singers of that time… especially, Eddy (Cattle Call, Cool Water) and Johnny Cash, Ferlin Husky, Guy Mitchell, and the guy that sang “Gone.” As well as instrumentalists like Duane Eddy and Boots Randolph and Brenda, Theresa and Patsy too. No to most of today’s plastic crossover C&W Singers. Not the same. We had it pretty good, didn’t we?

PssttCmere @ 12:

Eddy Arnold’s “Make The World Go Away” was guaranteed to make me cry almost everytime I heard it. Do not consider myself a country music fan in any way, shape or form, but this song did it for me. RIP Eddy Arnold and thanks for some great music!

Must confess I preferred late Jim Reeves version of make the world go away, but both great….sorry dont have a link for Jim Reeves version

it was eddie albert who played on green acres you hicks