"Make the World Go Away'" is a country

Country music

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-popular

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 music song composed by Hank Cochran

Hank Cochran

Garland Perry "Hank" Cochran was an American country music singer and songwriter. Starting during the 1960s, Cochran was a prolific songwriter in the genre, including major hits by Patsy Cline, Ray Price, Eddy Arnold and others...

. It has become a Top 40 popular success three times: for Timi Yuro

Timi Yuro

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 (during 1963), for Eddy Arnold

Eddy Arnold

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 (1965), and for the brother-sister duo Donny

Donny Osmond

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 and Marie Osmond

Marie Osmond

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 (1975). The original version of the song was recorded by Ray Price

Ray Price (musician)

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 during 1963.

History

Hank Cochran

Hank Cochran

Garland Perry "Hank" Cochran was an American country music singer and songwriter. Starting during the 1960s, Cochran was a prolific songwriter in the genre, including major hits by Patsy Cline, Ray Price, Eddy Arnold and others...

 composed the song during 1963. Cochran was already a successful songwriter, having written two successes for Patsy Cline

Patsy Cline

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: "I Fall to Pieces

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" (with Harlan Howard

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) and "She's Got You

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". "Make the World Go Away" was recorded first by Ray Price

Ray Price (musician)

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 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 "For the Good Times

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". Price's album scored #2 on the country charts and #100 on the popular music charts.

Versions

During 1963, Timi Yuro

Timi Yuro

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 released a soul music

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 version of the song from her album of the same name. A moderate success, the single scored #24 on the Billboard U.S. Top 40 popular music chart and as much as #11 on the Canadian charts.

"Make the World Go Away" became a greater success for Eddy Arnold

Eddy Arnold

Richard Edward Arnold , known professionally as Eddy Arnold, was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a so-called 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...

 during 1965, scoring #1 on the country music charts and also scoring #1 on the adult contemporary charts. It scored #6 on the popular music chart. "Make the World Go Away" was part of the so-called Nashville Sound

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, 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.

Elvis Presley's 1970 version of "Make the World Go Away" was the closing track of his album Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old)

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.

During 1975, Donny Osmond

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 and Marie Osmond

Marie Osmond

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 cover-versioned "Make the World Go Away", scoring the Top 40 charts in Great Britain

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 and the United States. The song was recorded by the pair on the MGM album of the same title.

During 1978, country music singer Charly McClain

Charly McClain

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 cover-versioned "Make the World Go Away" for her second album, Let Me Be Your Baby. The single, with "Leanin' on the Bottle" on the B-side, scored #73 on the country charts.

In October 2004, Mickey Gilley

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's version of "Make the World Go Away" was featured on the fictional radio station K-Rose in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

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.

During 2005, Martina McBride

Martina McBride

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 covered "Make the World Go Away" for her album Timeless.

Other popular singers who have covered the song include Engelbert Humperdinck

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, Jimmie Rogers

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, Jim Reeves

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 and Tom Jones

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At the 2008 Academy of Country Music Awards program, Carrie Underwood

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 and Brad Paisley

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 sang the song as a duet to honor Eddy Arnold

Eddy Arnold

Richard Edward Arnold , known professionally as Eddy Arnold, was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a so-called 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...

 for his long career in country music. "Make the World Go Away" is the song playing on the radio of the car in Underwood's 2008 music video for her single "Just a Dream".

Chart positions (Eddy Arnold version)

Chart (1975)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	6
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	1
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary	2
UK Singles Chart	8