EDDY ARNOLD DEAD AT 89
Country music icon EDDY ARNOLD has died a week before his 90th birthday.
The Country Music Hall of Fame member would have hit the landmark on 15 May (08).
Reports suggest Arnold died on Thursday morning (08May08) at an assisted living centre near Nashville, Tennessee.
Thanks to a string of hits throughout his career, Arnold, dubbed the Tennessee Plowboy, is considered country music’s biggest hitmaker on the Billboard charts.
His hits include Make The World Go Away, I Want To Go With You and I Really Don’t Want To Know. Billboard.com reports Arnold enjoyed 28 number one country singles from 1947 until 1968, and he had 92 top 10 hits, including 67 in a row - more than any other artist.
Arnold’s 1947 song I’ll Hold You in My Heart spent 21 weeks at number one, and, in 1948, only one other artist spent time at the top of the charts as the singer clocked up one hit after another.
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