Carl Robert Belew, born on April 21, 1931, in Salina, Oklahoma, was an American country music singer and songwriter. He started his career in the early 1950s performing on Louisiana Hayride. In the late 1950s, he signed with Decca Records and achieved success with "Am I That Easy to Forget", which reached number 9 on the country charts and was covered by several artists. Belew moved to RCA Victor in 1962 and had another hit with "Hello Out There". Throughout his career, he wrote songs for various artists, including Eddy Arnold and Jim Reeves. In the 1970s, Waylon Jennings and Susan Raye recorded versions of "Stop the World and Let Me Off", which also charted. He passed away on October 31, 1990, in Salina, Oklahoma. Posthumously, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2017.
