Richard Edward Arnold

When I was just a wee lad (Then they called me Tangerine Julius), I remember having a stack of record LP's (vinyl for those born in the 80s) that my dad let me play on his old record player pretty much when I wanted to. One of those was an album called Cattle Calls. It had a song on it called Cattle Call that I used to love to play and sing along with.

The artist was Eddy Arnold. During his career Eddy had 145 charted songs, 28 of them reaching number one. Second only to George Jones.

Other than Cattle Call, I remember other hits of his....... Just Call Me Lonesome, The You Can Tell Me Goodbye, and probably his biggest hit, Make The World Go Away. That song made him an international star. Of course all that happened before I was even born, but I dug it just the same.

Early in his career, Eddy was managed by Col. Tom Parker, who as most of you know, would go on to manage the King.

I write this today because I just heard on the radio that Eddy Passed away this morning. He was 90 years old. Not bad. RIP Mr. Arnold.

And for those of you that just don't know me and are going, "OJ? Country?" You g**damn right! As a good friend of mine once said, "Every style of music has its own version of a groove. You just got to open yours and find. once it makes you tap your foot, your hooked."

later,

OJJ