Per wikipedia: Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs is an album released by Marty Robbins on the Columbia Records label in September 1959, peaking at #6 on the U.S. pop albums chart. It was recorded in a single eight-hour session on April 7, 1959, and was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1965 and Platinum in…
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Coloring Club Plus 5/29/19
This Time is the fifth album by American country music artist Dwight Yoakam, released 3/23/93. Three of its tracks barely missed the top spot on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts, each peaking at No. 2: “Ain’t That Lonely Yet,” “A Thousand Miles from Nowhere,” and “Fast as You,” the latter being his last Top…
Coloring Club Plus — 5/28/19
I bought Cat Stevens’ “Foreigner” album when it first came out. One of my friends had bought me, “Tea for the Tillerman” as a Christmas gift (I bought her a James Brown album) and I loved it so got this one. It’s one I listened to incessantly until it was burned into my grey matter….
Coloring Club Plus — 5/27/19
Today is another cut from Sting’s, “Dream of the Blue Turtles.” Read yesterday’s post which gives more information about the album here. Even though the song is about the cold war with Russia in the 1980’s, the scope is much wider. When we fight wars, do our enemies love their children? The innocent children always…
Coloring Club Plus — 5/26/19
The “P” coloring today is for Poppies. I colored it for poppies. The Dream of the Blue Turtles is the first solo album by English musician Sting, released in the United States on 1 June 1985. The album reached number three on the UK Albums Chart. It reached number two on the Billboard 200. In…
Coloring Club Plus — 5/25/19
I first heard JP Hoe’s music on myspace.com and loved his voice right from the get-go. JP is based in Manitoba, Canada. Manitoba Music did a nice write-up on him here. which has several of his music videos at the page. His official website is here. I bought his debut, self-published, “The Dear John Letters”…
Coloring Club Plus — 5/24/19
I first heard “Message to Martha” on a Burt Bacharach compilation album. I adore the song and I love the way Jerry Butler, Jr. sings it. The song was first recorded as “Message to Martha” by Jerry Butler in the 1962 session in New York City which produced Butler’s hit “Make It Easy on Yourself”….
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