Anytime - Eddy Arnold

 

Anytime

Anytime

Eddy Arnold and His Guitar

RCA Victor LPM 1224

1956

From the back cover: Eddy has loved country music since he was a little boy in Chester County in western Tennessee. Youngest son of a cotton and corn farmer, he liked music better than farm work – but that did not keep him from working behind the plow. He had his full share of work to do, and he did it well. The nearest town was six miles away ("I walked both ways"), and Eddy had his schooling in a one-room frame building where the only teacher taught all eight grades.

When he was eight, he got hold of an old mouth harp; "the only toy," Eddy recalls, "I ever owned." He taught himself to play it, while sitting before a battered old phonograph listening to Jimmie Rodgers sing T For Texas and T For Tennessee.

A turning point in his life came when a cousin lent him an old guitar. His mother could play a little, but soon Eddie had taught himself to be a better player than she was. Eddy's dreams of a musical career were cut short by his father's death, which made it necessary for him to quit school an to work full time on the farm.

But when he was eighteen he got a job playing with a band in Jackson – which later played at the local radio station. Two years later the band went to play on a larger station in Memphis, but the job lasted only a few weeks. Eddy went to St. Louis – to visit a married sister – and landed a job at KWK. It was from there that he went to his vocalist job with Pee Wee King.

He began his stellar career with his own outfit, "Eddy Arnold and His Tenessee Plowboys." As his fame spread, he signed a contract with RCA Victor and made his first record – since a favorite of his fans – Mommy, Please Stay Home With Me. Within a year after he began recording, he had no less than three records on the juke box hit parade at one time.

Now known to millions more from his movie, radio and TV appearances, Eddy has come a long way from the little farm in Chester Country.

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