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    • May 15, 1918
    Eddy Arnold is born in Henderson, Tennessee. Originally touted as the Tennessee Plowboy in his solid country recordings, he shifts into string-laden recordings in the 1960s on his way to membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame
    May 15, 1929
    Eddy Arnold's father, Will, dies, the same day Eddy celebrates his 11th birthday
    Dec 11, 1930
    Nineteen months after Eddy Arnold's father died, the family's property is bought at auction in Jackson, Tennessee, by Obe and M.B. Latham, who re-sell it eight days later to Allan Arnold, Eddy's half-brother
    Dec 19, 1930
    Allan Arnold, Eddy Arnold's half-brother, purchases the family farm from Obe and M.B. Latham, who had bought it at auction eight days prior. Eddy's family becomes tenants, instead of landowners
    Jan 3, 1938
    Eddy Arnold makes his Memphis radio debut on WMPS. The live show, which pairs him with Speedy McNatt, lasts less than two weeks
    Jan 14, 1938
    Eddy Arnold and Speedy McNatt are fired from their jobs as live performers on Memphis radio station WMPS less than two weeks after they started the gig
    Jan 15, 1938
    Looking for a new employer, Eddy Arnold and Speedy McNatt visit WMC in Memphis. The program director has them record four songs at the Hotel Gayoso for their audition, marking the first time Arnold's voice is recorded
    Jan 16, 1938
    Eddy Arnold arrives in St. Louis, where he finds work on radio station KWK
    Jan 21, 1938
    Eddy Arnold and Speedy McNatt make their St. Louis radio debut on KWK as Mac And Ed, The Tennessee Harmony Lads. Among the songs they perform from the Hotel Chase is "Home On The Range"
    Jan 31, 1940
    Fiddler Speedy McNatt joins Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys. The band already features one of McNatt's friends, Eddy Arnold, as lead vocalist
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