Marty Robbins - El Paso / Running Gun album flac

El Paso" is a country and western ballad written and originally recorded by Marty Robbins, and first released on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs in September 1959. It was released as a single the following month, and became a major hit on both the country and pop music charts, reaching number one in both at the start of 1960. It won the Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording in 1961, and remains Robbins' best-known song.

Written-By – Robbins. B. Running Gun. Written-By – Tim Glaser, Tom Glaser. From the album "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs". Other Versions (5 of 15) View All. Cat.

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Marty Robbins was an established country act by 1959, but this album made him a household name. His rich, agile voice had as much in common with Top 40 crooners as country singers, and his charismatic delivery helped land a number of these cuts on the pop charts. Big Iron" and "El Paso"-both penned by Robbins-were huge hits, offering dramatic narratives full of danger and romance. And traditional tunes like "Billy the Kid" and "Utah Carol" fit perfectly into the mythic Western world Robbins conjured up. Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs Marty Robbins.

Running Gun. 2:10. 11. 30. In The Valley (Album Version). so vivid was this iconic tale of fierce gunplay and dying with your boots on, it topped both the pop and the country charts back in 1959.

Coincidentally, "El Paso" was followed in the Hot 100 No. 1 position by Johnny Preston's "Running Bear", another song in which the protagonist of the song dies For his 1979 TV special Comedy is Not Pretty!, Steve Martin created a music video for the song, in which he plays the cowboy.

The history of Marty Robbins' "El Paso," his signature song and the classic epic Western gunslinger ballad that changed pop radio forever. The Story of Marty Robbins' "El Paso". The history of the epic gunslinger ballad that changed radio forever. Single: Columbia 4-41511 (October 26, 1959; b-side, "Running Gun") Album: Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, Columbia CL 1349 (September 1959). Marty Robbins was already one of the nation's most popular country singers in late 1959, having scored four C&W hits, including the first hit version of "Singing the Blues" and his own composition "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation" (which became a huge pop hit as well).

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