Marty Robbins 20th Century Drifter - The MCA Years (2-CD)

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Marty Robbins: 20th Century Drifter - The MCA Years (2-CD)

(Hump Head) 37 tracks - Marty Robbins successful recording career, which saw him score 16 country number ones and a further 30 top ten entries, lasted for 30 years.

Most die-hard country music fans are familiar with the music of Marty Robbins. His gunfighter ballads are legendary, whilst songs like Singing The Blues, Devil Woman, Begging To You, Tonight Carmen and
Don't Worry have long been recognised as country classics. His successful recording career, which saw him score 16 country number ones and a further 30 top ten entries, lasted for 30 years. For 27 of those years he was signed to Columbia Records, but for a brief three-year period, from 1972-75, he recorded for Decca/MCA Records. This is often referred to as his 'lost years.'

He had recorded successfully for Columbia from 1952 through until the end of 1971 when he shocked the country music fraternity with the announcement he was to change labels. For years Marty had
been one of the biggest country music stars signed to Columbia. He was still very much at the top of his game: He'd hit number one with the Grammy winning My Woman, My Woman, My Wife in 1970 and scored a further five consecutive top 10 hits over the next two years. But the singer was far from happy with Columbia, feeling that he was being sidelined as all the major promotion efforts appeared to be
for label-mates Johnny Cash, Ray Price and Lynn Anderson.

The contract he landed with MCA/Decca offered Marty complete artistic freedom, including producing his own recordings—several years prior to Waylon Jennings achieving this with RCA—and also possible film roles via Universal Pictures. Marty's first session for his new label took place on June 15, 1972 and over the next three years he released 39 titles and also recorded a further 15 titles which were not released.
For the first time 37 of those released titles are collected on this special two-CD set.

Two titles—Shotgun Rider and These Are My Souvenirs—reverted back to Marty along with the 15 unreleased ones when his MCA contract expired. He took all 17 of those recordings with him when he
signed a new contract with Columbia in late 1975.

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Interpret: Marty Robbins
Album titlle: 20th Century Drifter - The MCA Years (2-CD)
Genre Country
Label Hump Head Records
Artikelart CD
EAN: 5060001275543
weight in Kg 0.13

Robbins, Marty - 20th Century Drifter - The MCA Years (2-CD) CD 1
01	Twentieth Century Drifter	Marty Robbins
02	I Heard The Bluebirds Sing	Marty Robbins
03	The Way I'm Needing You	Marty Robbins
04	You're An Angel Disguised As A Girl	Marty Robbins
05	Georgia Blood	Marty Robbins
06	Don't You Think	Marty Robbins
07	Mother Knows Best	Marty Robbins
08	Darling Come Home	Marty Robbins
09	Love Needs	Marty Robbins
10	I Couldn't Believe It Was True	Marty Robbins
11	Queen Of The Big Rodeo	Marty Robbins
12	I'm Wanting To	Marty Robbins
13	Two Gun Daddy	Marty Robbins
14	Crawling On My Knees	Marty Robbins
15	Franklin, Tennessee	Marty Robbins
16	She's Too Good To Be True	Marty Robbins
17	Life	Marty Robbins
18	If There's Still Another Mountain	Marty Robbins

Robbins, Marty - 20th Century Drifter - The MCA Years (2-CD) CD 2
01	The Taker	Marty Robbins
02	Love Me	Marty Robbins
03	This Much A Man	Marty Robbins
04	Funny Face	Marty Robbins
05	You Don't Really Know	Marty Robbins
06	Guess I'll Just Stand Here Looking Dumb	Marty Robbins
07	A Man & A Train	Marty Robbins
08	Las Vegas, Nevada	Marty Robbins
09	Pretend	Marty Robbins
10	Up To My Shoulders In A Heartache	Marty Robbins
11	Walking Piece Of Heaven	Marty Robbins
12	Martha, Oh Martha	Marty Robbins
13	Leaving Is A Whole Lot Harder	Marty Robbins
14	Overhurt & Underloved	Marty Robbins
15	It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)	Marty Robbins
16	Eyes	Marty Robbins
17	Making The Most Of A Heartache	Marty Robbins
18	San Francisco Teardrops	Marty Robbins
19	It Takes Faith	Marty Robbins

Marty Robbins Marty Robbins was a deeply private man: although he spent nearly thirty years... more

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"Marty Robbins"

Marty Robbins

Marty Robbins was a deeply private man: although he spent nearly thirty years in Nashville, Arizona remained his home, and behind the extroverted stage act lay a character who was hard to know, even shy. Born Martin David Robinson on 26 September 1925 near Glendale, Arizona – the twin of his sister Mamie – he identified all his life with his grandfather Texas Bob Heckle, a former Confederate and Texas Ranger.

Statistically his achievement is impressive: from 1952 to 1983 Robbins placed at least one record in the charts every single year, with more than twenty pop hits besides. Yet figures tell only half the story. From a career rooted in country music he made detours into gospel, rockabilly, Hawaiian, Latin and Caribbean music, western ballads and easy listening – and brought his unmistakable imprint to it all.

A Marty Robbins recording was usually identifiable as such within the first few bars. Beyond that, Robbins was one of the first country artists to take the business side of his career into his own hands. Add his passionate enthusiasm for stock-car racing, and one glimpses the many-sided life of this man – a life that began on the edge of the Arizona desert and ended in Nashville on the night of 8 December 1982, when heart disease claimed him.

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