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Marty Robbins - No. 1 Cowboy Audio CD

A fair review of the Marty Robbins "No. 1 Cowboy" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Marty Robbins reviews here, or go back to the Marty Robbins tabs.

Marty Robbins Band: Marty Robbins
Title: No. 1 Cowboy
Rating:
Release Date: 1996-01-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Paso 2: Paso City 3: Hanging Tree 4: Red River Valley 5: Streets of Laredo 6: San Angelo 7: All Around Cowboy 8: Tumbling Tumbleweeds 9: Fastest Gun Around 10: Meet Me Tonight in Laredo 11: Mr. Shorty 12: They're Hanging Me Tonight 13: Cool Water 14: Strawberry Roan 15: Ballad of the Alamo [From the Batjac Production The Alamo] 16: Big Iron 17: Running Gun 18: Five Brothers 19: Cowboy in the Continental Suit 20: Old Red

Marty Robbins is #1
1 Cowboy is Marty Robbins at his best! There are maybe 2 songs on the CD I don't care for, but the others make up for them. No. No one has a voice like Marty Robbins, and these old cowboy songs take me back to my childhood.


missing a cut from the original album
What happened to "Tall Handsome Stranger" ? I would like to order this cd but I notice this version is lacking at least one cut from the original album.


Agree With Very Good; Agree With Incomplete
Shorty. I purchased this CD from Amazon for one cut, the delighful and insightful "Mr. " Alas, like the previous reviewer noted about "El Paso," this song is also woefully diminished by omission of key verses. The original consisted of nineteen verses, of which four are missing here.

Verses 3 and 4

Said he was needin' some wages
Before he could ride for the west
Said he could do most all kind of work
Said he could ride with the best.

There in his blue eyes was sadness
That comes from the need of a friend
And tho' he tried, he still couldn't hide
The loneliness there, deep within.

Verses 7 and 8

The eyes of the little man narrowed
The smile disappeared from his face
Gone was the friendliness that I had seen
And a wild look of hate took its' place.

But the big one continued to mock him
And he told me that I'd better go
Find him a couple of glasses of milk
Then maybe Shorty would grow.

All four essential to complete understanding of the story.

The problem is that this is a "Not-Sold-In-Stores" TV offer compilation, and had to be edited for time to get all the songs on the disk. I would have preferred to see one less song (my choice would have been "Five Brothers") and be complete on the ones included.

All that said, edited Marty is infinitely better than no Marty at all, and the CD as a whole is an enjoyable listen. One star less than perfect for the editing, but recommended for lovers of Marty and his music.

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Enough to Satisfy
It was not a spectacular hit. Just as people called Johnny Cash the "Man in Black" (as to how he usually dressed) and he wrote a song by that name and George Jones was "No Show" Jones (for missing shows) and wrote a song also, Marty Robbins was referred to in a review long ago as the "Cowboy in the Continental Suit" and wrote the song. It's included here. Between the two El Paso songs was the middle of the story ("Feleena, the Girl From El Paso"). It's left out here; it was not a big hit but we learned she DID love only that cowboy in El Paso. Marty sings "Red River Valley" as well as it's ever been sung (nobody is sure who wrote it). Two songs written by a man Marty admired, Bob Nolan of the Sons of the Pioneers, are included. ("Cool Water", "Tumbling Tumbleweeds"). There are also two by Victor Young who wrote movie themes from the early 1930s to 1956, "Strawberry Roan" (previously done by Gene Autry) and "Streets of Laredo". With that history and Marty Robbins doing the vocals, a Western fan can't go wrong. Five stars. .


An excellent introduction to Marty's western material
William Fairchild, the deal with El Paso being edited is that's what's on the stereo album master which is the source Gusto/TeeVee used for this track rather than the mono 45rpm master which has the additional verse. The other reviews have stated what this exactly is: A compilation of 20 of Marty's classic western songs. If you would have bought the Legacy/American Milestones series remaster of Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs or the Bear Family Under Western Skies boxed set, you would have known this already.


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