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"What Is Life Without Love" is a 1947 song by Eddy Arnold. The song was Arnold's first number one on the country chart in the US, spending one week at the top and a total of twenty-two weeks on the chart. [1]

Eddy Arnold American country music singer, songwriter

Richard Edward "Eddy" Arnold was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a Nashville sound innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more than 85 million records. A member of the Grand Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame, Arnold ranked 22nd on Country Music Television's 2003 list of "The 40 Greatest Men of Country Music."

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 29.