# Eddy Arnold- The World's Gone Away. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 8, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddy-arnold-the-worlds-gone-away/448567 "2008-05-08T14:56:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddy-arnold-the-worlds-gone-away/448567/1 "2008-05-08T14:56:44Z")
Age 89, almost 90. His wife passed away in March. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/05/08/national/a065031D83.DTL&tsp=1](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/05/08/national/a065031D83.DTL&tsp=1) In the past couple years, I’ve heard him almost weekly on commercials for handmade orthopedic “Living Shoes” made in Louisville, KY. Even in the commercials, his voice was so smooth. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddy-arnold-the-worlds-gone-away/448567/2 "2008-05-08T15:02:07Z")
How can anyone not love [Cattle Call](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG0I32IUP10&feature=related)? [Here he is doing it live.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE6rdpMV2Dg) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddy-arnold-the-worlds-gone-away/448567/3 "2008-05-08T15:36:13Z")
He was (is) one of the few C&W singers I can stand to listen to. **For The Good Times** has to be one of the best ballads ever recorded. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddy-arnold-the-worlds-gone-away/448567/4 "2008-05-09T01:17:03Z")
I always remember him for his comment about why he voted for Olivia Newton-John as best female country artist in the 1973 Grammies(which she won, causing a rift in the country music scene). He said something like, “I’m old, and I’m rich, and I can do whatever the hell I want to.” He was the Bing Crosby of the Country Music scene. Smooth. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddy-arnold-the-worlds-gone-away/448567/5 "2008-05-09T09:34:25Z")
His song “These are the Thanks I Get (for loving you)” is one of the earliest non-kiddie songs I remember hearing in my life (nursery school, 2-3 years old). As a kid I enjoyed his album of old folkie standards (the one with “Wanderin’”, “The Roving Gambler”, and everyone-knows-it stuff like “Home on the Range” and “Down in the Valley”). ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddy-arnold-the-worlds-gone-away/448567/6 "2008-05-09T15:20:33Z")
> **[Eddy Arnold, 89, Country Singer With Pop Luster, Dies (Published 2008)](https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/music/09arnold.html?ref=music)** > > Mr. Arnold was a gentleman crooner who took country music uptown and sold more than 85 million recordings over seven decades. A golden voice - I used to listen to him when I was a wee tad, my mom playing his LPs on her automatic Magnavox turntable all day while she cleaned house… I, for one, will miss him. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddy-arnold-the-worlds-gone-away/448567/7 "2008-05-09T15:36:59Z")
I merged **Dirk’s** thread with the older one. **samclem** ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddy-arnold-the-worlds-gone-away/448567/8 "2008-05-09T17:00:03Z")
[QUOTE=Chefguy] He was (is) one of the few C&W singers I can stand to listen to. **For The Good Times** has to be one of the best ballads ever recorded. [/QUOTE] Did Eddy Arnold record that? Ray Price had the big hit with it. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddy-arnold-the-worlds-gone-away/448567/9 "2008-05-09T17:10:49Z")
I loved Eddy Arnold. RIP