RARE 1961 MARTY ROBBINS 78 JIMMY MARTINEZ / GHOST TRAIN S.A. CBS CC 423 E/E+
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A VERY HARD TO FIND 1961 78rpm PRESSING OF THIS WONDERFULL COWBOY CLASSIC FROM MARTY ROBBINS ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN CBS LABEL
JIMMY MARTINEZ
b/w GHOST TRAIN
No artist in the history of country music has had a more stylistically diverse career than Marty Robbins. Never content to remain just a country singer, Robbins performed successfully in a dazzling array of styles during more than 30 years in the business. To his credit, Robbins rarely followed trends but often took off in directions that stunned both his peers and fans. Plainly Robbins was not hemmed in by anyone's definition of country music.
Although his earliest recordings were unremarkable weepers, by the mid-'50s Robbins was making forays into rock music, adding fiddles to the works of Chuck Berry and Little Richard. By the late '50s, Robbins had pop hits of his own with teen fare like "A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation)." Almost simultaneously, he completed work on his Song of the Islands album. In 1959, Robbins stretched even further with the hit single "El Paso," thus heralding a pattern of "gunfighter ballads" that lasted the balance of his career.
Robbins also enjoyed bluesy hits like "Don't Worry," which introduced a pop audience to fuzz-tone guitar in 1961. Barely a year later, Robbins scored a calypso hit with "Devil Woman." Robbins also left a legacy of gospel music and a string of sentimental ballads, showing that he could croon with nary a touch of hillbilly twang.
JIMMY MARTINEZ reached # 24 on the US Country charts and #51 on the billboard hot 100 - it also made it into the charts in Canada and Australia but to my knowledge was only issued on 78 in South Africa
DISC DETAILS:-
SOUTH AFRICA CBS CC 423 10" 78rpm
COMES IN ORIGINAL SLEEVE
the store label sticker on the B side has lost it's writing (see scan) but the record is obviously not affected by that
CONDITION:- E+ / EXCELLENT
VERY NICE!!
DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS VERY SCARCE 78
BUY NOW!
10" 78 RPM RECORDS NEED CAREFULLY PACKING, AND I CLAIM TO HAVE THE BEST PACKAGING IN THE WORLD FOR DISPATCHING THEM!
THE GREG'S GREAT'S SYSTEM CONSISTS OF A SPECIALLY DESIGNED INNER BOX MADE OUT OF 1" THICK POLYSTYRENE
THIS THEN GOES INSIDE A DOUBLE CORRUGATED STIFF OUTER CARDBOARD CARTON. THE BOXES CAN TAKE UP TO 21 RECORDS
I SEND OUT ON AVERAGE ABOUT 30 PARCELS A WEEK AND DISPATCH IS NORMALLY DONE ONCE A WEEK
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