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<h1>Make the World Go Away</h1><p>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p><p><br></p><p>"<strong>Make the World Go Away'</strong>" is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_pop" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">country pop</a> song composed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Cochran" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hank Cochran</a>. It has become a Top 40 popular success three times: for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timi_Yuro" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Timi Yuro</a> (during 1963), for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Arnold" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Eddy Arnold</a> (1965), and for the brother-sister duo <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donny_Osmond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Donny</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Osmond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marie Osmond</a> (1975). The original version of the song was recorded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Price_(musician)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ray Price</a> during 1963. It has remained a country <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crooner" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">crooner</a> standard ever since.</p><p><br></p><h2>History</h2><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Cochran" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hank Cochran</a> wrote the song while he was on a date at a movie theater in 1960 when the film inspired him. He left the theater quickly, and by the time he got home fifteen minutes later had composed "Make the World Go Away".</p><p>Ray Price recorded the song, and it scored No.2 on the <em>Billboard</em> country charts in 1963. The next year Eddy Arnold would make the song his signature hit, scoring No. 1 on the country music charts and then in 1965 No. 6 on the overall <em>Billboard</em> Hot 100 chart (his highest rated song ever). Arnold would also record the song "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Want_to_Go_with_You" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">I Want to Go with You</a>".</p><p>Cochran was already a successful songwriter, having written two successes for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patsy_Cline" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patsy Cline</a>: "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Fall_to_Pieces" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">I Fall to Pieces</a>" (with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_Howard" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harlan Howard</a>) and "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She%27s_Got_You" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">She's Got You</a>". "Make the World Go Away" was recorded first by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Price_(musician)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ray Price</a> and was one of Price's first songs to feature an orchestra and female chorus, a trend that continued with other songs like "Burning Memories" and "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_Good_Times_(song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">For the Good Times</a>".</p><p>Price's album peaked at No. 2 on the country chart and No. 100 on the album chart.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_the_World_Go_Away#cite_note-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[1]</a></p><p>"Make the World Go Away" was a greater success for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Arnold" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Eddy Arnold</a> during 1965, scoring No. 1 on the country music chart<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_the_World_Go_Away#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[2]</a> and also scoring No. 1 on the adult contemporary chart. It reached No. 6 on the singles chart. "Make the World Go Away" was part of the so-called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_sound" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nashville sound</a>, an early mixture of popular with country music, and it became one of the most popular recordings of 1960s country music. It is generally considered to be Arnold's best-known song. The musicians on the Arnold session were Grady Martin, Velma Smith (guitars), Henry Strzelecki (bass), Jerry Carrigan (drums), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Cramer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Floyd Cramer</a> (piano), Bill Walker (vibes), Harvey Wolfe (cello), Pamela Goldsmith, Ruby Ann Story (violas), Brenton Banks, Solie Fott, Lillian Hunt, Martin Kathan, Shelly Kurland (violins), and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Kerr_Singers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Anita Kerr Singers</a> (vocal chorus). In 2020, this version was selected by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Library of Congress</a> for preservation in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Recording_Registry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">National Recording Registry</a> for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_the_World_Go_Away#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[3]</a></p>