I hope you folks will excuse a bit of thread creep, but this song is very special to me, and I'm going to take a chance.

Back in the 1960's I booked Eddy Arnold to appear in a Pop Concert with the Phoenix Symphony. My wife and I picked Eddy up at the airport and we made small talk on the way to his hotel. We had attended the Phoenix Jaycee's Rodeo a few months prior, and Jimmy Dean was the guest artist at the rodeo. He sang "Be Nobody's Darling," which I knew from the thirties, but was new to Velma. She asked Eddy on the ride back from the airport if he had considered recording that song. He said, "No, but it's a great old song."

Several months later, Eddy released a LP and it had that song on it. Velma was shopping at KMart perusing the LP records, and found it. She called me at my office and said, "Guess what?"

She died several years later absolutely convinced that she was responsible for his recording "Be Nobody's Darling" on that LP. Bill Walker arranged Eddy's rendition of the song, and I think it is excellent.

Sorry for the invasion of what should be just a music thread.

DougR