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Last week, Eddy, who calls himself the Tennessee Plowboy, was in Manhattan, the one place in the U.S. where he doesn't seem to be a big hit. Says he: "Dawgonnit, this is the only place my records don't sell." But elsewhere, Eddy's records were selling fast enough for RCA Victor to rush out a few more before Petrillo puts a stop to it (see above...
...symphonic bigwigs from Leopold Stokowski to Sergei Koussevitzky have offered to teach him how. Self-consciously modest, yet with a touch of the fire-&-brimstone revivalist, he refuses to be rushed. Says he: "Up until the past year I felt more like a cheerleader than a choral director. Dawgonnit! I don't feel I have any manifest destiny...
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