Sunday Morning Country Classic Spotlight To Feature Marty Robbins

Join me Sunday November 23rd at 11 am for the Sunday Morning Country Classic Spotlight featuring Marty Robbins.

Marty was born in Glendale, Arizona in 1925.  There he taught himself how to play guitar while serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II.  After the war, he started performing in clubs in and around the Phoenix area.  He had his own radio and TV shows by the end of the 1940's.

Marty scored his first number one country song in 1956 with Singing the Blues.  In 1959, Robbins released his signature song El Paso, for which he won a Grammy Award.

The Story of my Life is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and it became a 1957 hit for Marty.  It stayed at number one for four weeks on the Country Chart.  Big Iron, a country ballad written by Robbins,  was originally released as an album track on the Gun Fighters: Ballads and Trail Songs in September 1959 and then as a single in February 1960.  Ruby Ann, a follow up to Devil Woman, was released in 1962 and peaked at number one.

Marty Robbins enjoyed one of the most illustrious careers in the history of country music.  He recorded more than 500 songs and 60 albums and won two Grammy Awards.  What makes this so remarkable, according to Marty, was that he accomplished all this without any special musical talent.  In an interview near the end of his life he said

I'm not a real good musician, but I can write songs.

Marty passed away on December 8, 1982 in Nashville, Tennessee.

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