Eddy Arnold ~ Similar Artists

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Jim Reeves - 100% match to Eddy Arnold

James Travis Reeves, 20 August 1923, Galloway, Texas, USA, d. 31 July 1964, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. (Reeves' plaque in the Country Music Hall Of Fame mistakenly gives his date of birth as 1924). Reeves' father died when he was 10 months old and his mother was left to raise... Read more

Lefty Frizzell - 91% match to Eddy Arnold

William Orville Frizzell, 31 March 1928, Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas, USA, d. 19 July 1975, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The eldest of eight children of an itinerant oilfield worker, Frizzell was raised mainly in El Dorado, Arkansas, but also lived in sundry places in Texas... Read more

Charlie Rich - 80% match to Eddy Arnold

14 December 1932, Colt, Arkansas, USA, d. 25 July 1995, Hammond, Louisiana, USA. One of Rich's country hits was "Life Has Its Little Ups And Downs", and the ups and downs of his own life were dramatic. Rich's parents were cotton farmers and he heard the blues from the pickers... Read more

Sons Of The Pioneers - 75% match to Eddy Arnold

This legendary country group was founded in 1933 by Leonard Slye (5 November 1911, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, d. 6 July 1998, Apple Valley, California, USA), when he recruited two friends - Bob Nolan (b. Robert Clarence Nobles, 1 April 1908, Point Hatfield, New Brunswick, Canada, d.... Read more

Marty Robbins - 69% match to Eddy Arnold

Martin David Robinson 26 September 1925, near Glendale, Arizona, USA, d. 8 December 1982, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Robbins later maintained that his father hated him and that his early childhood was unhappy. Reports indicate that John Robinson (originally a Polish immigrant... Read more

Charley Pride - 66% match to Eddy Arnold

18 March 1938, Sledge, Mississippi, USA. Charley Pride was born on a cotton farm, which, as a result of his success, he was later able to purchase. Pride says, "My dad named me Charl Frank Pride, but I was born in the country and the midwife wrote it down as Charley". Harold... Read more

Conway Twitty - 65% match to Eddy Arnold

Harold Lloyd Jenkins, 1 September 1933, Friars Point, Mississippi, USA, d. 5 June 1993, Springfield, Missouri, USA. His father, a riverboat pilot, named him after a silent-film comedian and gave him a guitar when he was five years old. The family moved to Helena, Arkansas, and... Read more

Tom T. Hall - 65% match to Eddy Arnold

25 May 1936, Olive Hill, Kentucky, USA. Hall was one of eight children and his father was a bricklayer and part-time minister. Hall described the family home as "a frame house of pale-grey boards and a porch from which to view the dusty road and the promise of elsewhere beyond... Read more

Anne Murray - 60% match to Eddy Arnold

20 June 1946, Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada. Sometimes known as "The Singing Sweetheart Of Canada", Murray graduated from the University of New Brunswick with a degree in physical education, and then spent a year as a teacher. After singing simply for pleasure for a time, in... Read more

Faron Young - 58% match to Eddy Arnold

25 February 1932, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA, d. 10 December 1996, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Young was raised on the farm his father bought just outside Shreveport and learned to play the guitar and sing country songs as a boy. Greatly influenced by Hank Williams (in his early... Read more