| Marty was born in Glendale, Arizona, and grew up around music. His father played
harmonica and his grandfather, who used to travel with a medicine show
taught the young Marty how to sing the old time cowboy songs while telling him tales of
the old west.
Marty began singing in public, and actually make a few dollors in Phoenix clubs. This lead him to regular appearances on the local TV and radio stations. It was during one of these performances that Little Jimmy Dickens heard and met Marty. Dickens was so impressed with the youngster's talent and the wide range of cowboy songs that he went back to his record label Columbia and urged them to bring this young man on board. Columbia took Dickens advise, and in the spring of 1953 they released the song "I'll Go On Alone". After that Marty scored hit after hit on both pop and country charts. Some of the best known are "White Sports Coat", "Devil Woman", and of course [who will ever forget?] "El Paso". Marty Robbins passed away December 8th, 1982 |
| My thanks to Colin Alderson from South Australia for supplying this article. If you have anything like this and would like to share it with Marty Fans around the World then please I would appreciate an email and I will add it to the page with much delight and many thanks. |
Posted 15th August 2000
