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Topic: El Paso City |
Pat Carlson
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Posted 8 Jul 2004 8:54 pm |
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Would Marty Robbin's great hit,El Paso been considered country Music or pop when it first came out probably about 1960?
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The Lone Prairie Steeler Pat
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Earnest Bovine
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Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 8 Jul 2004 9:31 pm
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Dave Boothroyd
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Staffordshire Moorlands
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Posted 8 Jul 2004 10:34 pm
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Don't be silly! El Paso is the other sort of music- Western!
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Jerry Hayes
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Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 9 Jul 2004 6:48 am
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Hey Patrick,
Which song do you mean? El Paso as you mentioned or the title of this topic El Paso City which is another song entirely by Marty Robbins................Have a good 'un..JH
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Livin' in the Past and the Future with a 12 string Mooney Universal tuning.
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Bob Blair
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Posted 9 Jul 2004 8:28 am
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| Yeah Jerry, I was wondering the same thing. The sequel was a pale shadow of the former, in my view. |
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Tim Whitlock
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Colorado, USA
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Posted 9 Jul 2004 10:13 am
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I believe El Paso (not the sequel El Paso City) was considered country & western (your choice) as opposed to some of his more crossover stuff like "White Sport Coat". I could be wrong.
Great song from a great, great album called Gunfighter Ballads (definitely on my all-time top 10 list). I love the wonderful guitar fills throughout the record, which I'm told are courtesy of Grady Martin. [This message was edited by Tim Whitlock on 09 July 2004 at 11:14 AM.] |
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Ray Minich
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Posted 9 Jul 2004 11:13 am
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My mom & dad bought us kids the 45 RPM record when it (El Paso)first came out, I believe 1959. Played it on the old RCA a lot. It was the first 45 we got for the little record player.
There is a website somewhere that has more than enough info on this tune to fill a mack truck. I think El Paso played on both the Country Stations and the Top 40 types too. Maybe not Cousin Brucie or Larry Lujak, but Joey Reynolds played it on WKBW Buffalo.
Check out [URL] http://www.tsimon.com/elpaso.htm [This message was edited by Ray Minich on 09 July 2004 at 01:23 PM.] |
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Pat Carlson
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Sutton, Nebraska, R.I.P.
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Posted 9 Jul 2004 1:46 pm
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Out in the West Texas town of El Paso I fell in love with a Mexican Girl.Remember hearing this song on Pop radio back then.Thats all my older sisters listened to, they certainly would not have been listening to country & Western.Also was Marty Robbins singing about his grandfather in Big Iron on his hip? 
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[This message was edited by Patrick Carlson on 09 July 2004 at 03:44 PM.] |
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Pat Carlson
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Sutton, Nebraska, R.I.P.
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Posted 9 Jul 2004 1:58 pm
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Ray thanks for that great link  I should have checked it out before my last post! |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 11 Jul 2004 5:40 am
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Country. Country music fans embraced anything Marty did. I think some pop music listeners even liked the song because Marty had a great voice, and it didn't feature either of those two terrible hill-billy instruments, the banjo or the steel guitar. The TV horse-opera was even more popular back then than reality shows are now, and that helped the song's popularity tremendously, too.
Personally, I classified it as western or "cowboy" music, and grouped it with other cowboy music songs by artists like Tex Ritter, Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, and Rex Allen. |
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