After World War II, Country Singer Eddy Arnold found the song by accident and convinced RCA to let him record it. Lawson's creation had pretty much been filed away and almost forgotten.

Eddy Arnold, country music's "Tennessee Plowboy," whose rendition of "Make the World Go Away" was an international hit in the 1960s, died on Thursday at age 89 in Nashville after a lengthy illness.

Host Renee Montagne has a remembrance of singer Eddy Arnold. He died Thursday, days short of his 90th birthday. One of his most famous songs is Make the World Go Away.