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Best Country Songs from the 50s

May 8 2008
Sad news for Country Music Fans
Eddy Arnold, country music's "Tennessee Plowboy" whose rendition of "Make the World Go Away" was an international hit in the 1960s, died Thursday May 8 at age 89 in Nashville after a lengthy illness.

Anytime - Eddy Arnold
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Although musicians had been recording fiddle tunes (known as Old Time Music at that time)
in the southern Appalachians for several years, It wasn't until August 1, 1927 in
Bristol, Tennessee, that Country Music really began. There, on that day, Ralph Peer
signed Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family to recording contracts for Victor Records.

These two recording acts set the tone for those to follow - Rodgers with his unique
singing style and the Carters with their extensive recordings of old-time music.

Post-war prosperity made possible country music's first real boom.

The Grand Ole Opry, on network radio every Saturday night, reached 10 million listeners.
Barn dances all over the country prospered, and in the early '50s country music made its
first forays onto national television.

Enter Just A Lil Bit Country
And those great Fabulous 50s Country Songs

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