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June 17th 2008 23:04
Christopher Edward Tanner, 47, of Anaheim, Calif., is asking a Nashville court to order DNA testing he believes will prove the late singer Eddy Arnold was his father. Tanner said that he submitted the request last week for paternity testing on Arnold's remains. "I really don't want to have to exhume the body, but we've got no choice now," Tanner said.
Everybody sing along!!
An upstate New York man was arrested twice in less than an hour for driving drunk.Oneida County deputies stopped the man at 1:26 a.m. for an improper lane change.His blood alcohol level was .25 percent, more than triple the state's legal limit of .08 percent, but he was released to another person.
They arrested him about 30 minutes later for failing to keep right. Can't say as I blame the guy. There aint nuthin to do upstate except get hammered.
No! not another AA meeting?? PLEASE!
YYYYEEEEEEEEEEOWWWW!!!
YIKES!
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Comment by Stacy Harris
(from www.countrymuiscreport.com)
There has been so much erroneous reporting on this subject that would be largely missing if those interested following the events in chronological order.
I set the matter straight, weeks ago, when I wrote in Stacy’s Music Row Report Really Long Link the following:
Every time a major country artist dies it’s become the norm for the publicists of other artists to issue statements in their clients’ names. In Eddy’s case, some of the artists probably only heard of Arnold after his death, as the statements issued in their names were more about themselves than Eddy.
It doesn’t seem that it could be worse than that, but pre-funeral and post-funeral media coverage of Arnold’s passing has been absolutely abysmal. How many examples do you want?
I didn’t even know CLIFF AYERS was still alive until I saw him on a Fox 17 newscast identified by the reporter as Eddy’s “friend.”
Then there’s The Tennessean’s captioning a photo of SALLY and Eddy’s son: “Eddie Arnold Jr.”!
And Catholics are not the only ones cringing at a bit of hyperbole, courtesy of BOB OERMANN, who likened Arnold’s passing to the “death of a pope.” (Oermann’s enthusiasm is admirable and is easily forgiven due to Bob’s amiable nature. Once he examines his double-standard application of both praise and criticism, Bob’s expertise will be on par with his [selective] passion).
Nowhere in any posthumous coverage of Eddy’s life, other than my own, has their been any mention of Arnold’s autobiography and my past reporting on the protected legacy was borne out on Channel 50 on the evening of May 14th, just as I predicted earlier in the day it would during an afternoon conversation with the station’s CHERILYN CROWE.
Guests Oermann and Arnold biographer DON CUSIC closed ranks when a 71-year-old caller named Sarah, remarking that Arnold’s life seemed to be controversy-free, asked if there had been any scandal. Both Bob and Don said there had not.
I could have gone the hour without hearing the question. I prefer to remember, as Bob did, Eddy’s acting as a caregiver for his son, DICKIE.
One week after his college graduation, Dickie’s car was hit head-on.
News reports at the time left the impression the younger Arnold might not live following a head injury that left him unconscious for nearly ten weeks. Dickie’s right side was paralyzed and, once released from the hospital, his care proved to be too much for a male nurse.
So it was up to Eddy to provide the in-home care that included diaper and catheter changes. And Arnold did so with, if the word applies, enthusiasm.
But the question was asked and, in the absence of a refusal to comment, it demanded a truthful answer.
As I have previously written, the answer first surfaced in rumor form during a regular feature of the syndicated JOAN RIVERS SHOW titled “Gossip, gossip, gossip.” (I know this because I was to be hired following what turned out to be the show’s final season. When the cancellation came, I received a surprise invitation to the cast “wrap” party, which I have kept to this day.)
The show debuted in 1989 and sometime before final episode there was a mention of Eddy’s siring a love child during an extramarital affair. If there were any details, I don’t remember them. I couldn’t imagine this rumor being true and I wondered why Eddy didn’t sue for libel.
Fast forward to a few years ago when CINDY ADAMS named names and indicated that Eddy’s legal representative(s) were putting pressure on a New York woman to refrain from writing any tell-all mentioning Arnold’s name. I never heard anything more about the book until May 12th when, in a tasteless revelation following Eddy’s death but before his burial, an emboldened Adams reiterated what she claimed was a 1992 conversation with the then 54-year-old ARLENE TANNER GLYNN of Astoria, Queens. (Adams touts this as a scoop but, again, that credit/or blame rests with the Rivers show.)
In any event, Cindy reports that the “one-time auburn-haired knockout in the music business” told Adams that she gave birth to a son by Eddy (who will be celebrating his 48th birthday in November). Since “Arnold wanted nothing to do with his son,” Arlene named the boy who became a decorated Marine, CHRISTOPHER EDWARD TANNER. (Christopher? Why not Richard?)
Stacy Harris
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