Make The World Go Away –Eddy Arnold, RIP
Every little bit of income helped his widowed mother, as the Arnolds lost their family farm to foreclosure and became sharecroppers after his father’s death in 1929. By the time Arnold turned 17, he was singing part-time on radio and at venues in and around Jackson, Tenn., where he worked for an area funeral parlor. Leaving his home country for larger entertainment markets, Arnold moved on to radio work in Memphis and St.
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