Comments on: Country Music Hall of Famer Eddy Arnold Passed Away This Morning

By: Funk

Funk — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:14:33 +0000

Yeah, I might have combined Eddie Albert with Arnold Ziffel. Easy to mix up a pitchfork using banker and a multi-lingual, television watching pig.

By: northtexas

northtexas — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:16:43 +0000

“Carrie Underwear’s” Wow, how juvenile.
Guess Rick won’t be at the Opry this weekend…LOL!

By: roger

roger — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:10:08 +0000

eddy’s passing reminds me of Dale Watson’s song “a real country song”…we are losing the legends left and right lately and thank god people like dale watson and justin trevino are keeping the country tradition going..if i won the lottery i would start a radio station without monetary reasons and play all of the classics and the current artists that play true country and i guarantee i could make it profitable in a few years…the deregulation of radio station ownership was the downfall of real country music…actually not just country music but anything that is truly original…prayers to the Arnold family tonight…we lost another good one

By: Jeremy Potts

Jeremy Potts — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:53:56 +0000

Another sad day for country music. We’ve lost so many legends over this decade - it’s a very depressing time to be a country music fan.

By: Jim Malec

Jim Malec — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:04:46 +0000

Eddy was a legend, icon, and master.

By: Paul W Dennis

Paul W Dennis — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:51:08 +0000

Eddy Arnold (not the fellow that played on Green Acres) is still, to this day, the number Country singles artist of all time. Eddy’s last #1 came in 1968 (his first in 1947) but he continued to chart hits steadily thereout the 1970s and spasmidically thereafter with his last chart entry occuring in 2000

Eddy could sing smooth or he could sing very country, but whatever he sang he sang well

By: Lanibug

Lanibug — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:05:28 +0000

The vote on Carrie over at CU seems to be evenly divided — many people are saying that she was placed too high. I like the one guy who thinks she should have been in the top 20 - which for me is for people like Patsy Cline, June Carter Cash, Loretta Lynn, etc. Women whose music has withstood the test of time — hers has not yet without stood time…and only time will tell.

By: Mike W.

Mike W. — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:00:35 +0000

I dont know, “Gypsy” was a solid enough song. It was ok, but yeah, the songwriting on a number of the songs were uninspired. To say the least.

I do have hopes that Ray’s next album will be better, I mean, a number of the songs on Jamey’s first disc were rather weak (especially all the redneck songs), but his second album was the best album to come out last year, in ANY genre.

By: Hollerin' Ben

Hollerin' Ben — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:58:20 +0000

I don’t know about Ray Scott man. “My Kind of Music” was rad, but I thought the rest of that cd was awful.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:52:25 +0000

I also disagree about Carrie Underwear’s ranking on the Country Universe list as I would not have included her at all. Carrie is a fine pop singer but I can’t stand that nasally voice of hers. She isn’t worthy to shine the shoes of the likes of Kiity Wells or Loretta Lynn…..

That was great of Dierks Bentley to personally invite Sarah Buxton to sing harmony vocals on Good Morning America. GAC recently aired a show hosted by WSM DJ Bill Cody where he interviewed Taylor Swift, Kellie Pickler, and Sarah in 20 minute segments. I Tivo’d it and watched the Sarah segment as she is always a delightful interview subject. Now if Ltric Street would just take Sarah off the shelf and do something with her!!!!!!!!! (Maybe when Dierks starts his own label he can bring Sarah aboard….)

Ray Scott’s “My Kind of Music” should have been a radio hit but it was both “too country” and was potentially offensive to country radio’s female listeners. Ray, like Jamey Johnson, carries on the “Outlaw” country tradition and I wish him success…