Editing Duane Eddy (section)

==Early life==
Eddy was born in [[Corning, New York|Corning]], New York, on April 26, 1938.<ref name="The Book of Golden Discs" /> His parents were Lloyd and Alberta (née Granger) Eddy.<ref name="Guardian obituary">{{cite web |last1= |first1= |date=January 31, 2025 |title=Pennsylvania, U.S. Birth Certificates, 1906 - 1915 for Lloyd Delmas Eddy |url=https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/60484/images/46629_520306900_0068-00451?pId=796757 |access-date=January 31, 2025 |work=Ancestry.com}}</ref> Eddy's father drove a bread truck and later became the manager of a grocery store.<ref name=times_5_2024/><ref name="Guardian obituary"></ref> He began playing the guitar at the age of five,<ref name="Guardian obituary"></ref> after hearing the cowboy singer [[Gene Autry]]. In 1950, at the age of 12, Eddy made his first on-air radio appearance when he performed "''The Missouri Waltz''" on a station in Hornell, New York. <ref>{{Cite book |last=MacAlpine |first=Richard |title=Yates County Chronicles: Stories from Penn Yan, Keuka Lake and the Heart of the Finger Lakes |date=April 29, 2014 |publisher=History Press Library Editions |isbn= 978-1540222916 |location=Charleston, South Carolina |pages=147 |language=English}}</ref>

In 1951, his family moved to [[Tucson, Arizona|Tucson]], and then to [[Coolidge, Arizona]].<ref name="The Book of Golden Discs" /> He formed a duo, Jimmy and Duane, with his friend Jimmy Delbridge, who later recorded as Jimmy Dell.<ref name="history">{{cite web |url=http://www.history-of-rock.com/duane_eddy.htm |title=Biography at HistoryofRock.com |website=History-of-rock.com |access-date=March 7, 2012 |archive-date=March 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303183737/http://history-of-rock.com/duane_eddy.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Eddy left school at sixteen and played in local bars.<ref name="times_5_2024" />