Posted on 11/22/2017 12:13:56 AM PST by beaversmom
They don't make them like this anymore. This is country.
Everyone loves when I sing this classic love song of Mexico
Paloma
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bZjkV4qOK34
Actually, it's western.
Love it.
I prefer “Big Iron” by Marty Robbins.
RLTW
I wandered around Nuevo Laredo once about 20 years ago. I sure was dumb. I was lucky.
Out in the backseat of Rosie’s Cortina, I made a play for a Mexican girl.
I have a Marty Robbins signed copy of “Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs”
autographed to my name (John, not reallyVerbosus).
I got it in the ‘71-’73 timeframe from a radio station he was being interviewed at in Houston and I was a caller to the show.
He had to leave before I got to the station to pick up the LP, but he did personalize the autograph to me (which I am thankful for.)
Gosh, beaversmom - Laredo was not on that LP, but the song sure brings back memories. My favorite of his was “El Paso”, which is on that LP.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
What is the most famous recording of Streets of Larado? I hadn’t heard this version, but I know it isn’t the one I’m familiar with.
I’m not sure what other versions there are. I’d have to look up on YT.
You are welcome.
I was at a Johnny Cash concert that featured the musician who did the guitar work in Marty Robbins’ El Paso. He might have been the best guitarist I ever heard.
BIG HAIR
I was in a Cabinet meeting
With the FLOTUS by my side,
When striding in on camera
Miss America stopped and cried,
“You can’t flee the past forever
With “It’s all ‘he said, she said,””
And I’ll be there as a witness
With my Big Hair on my head, Big Hair on my head.”
“Big Hair, Big Hair,
Whether backseat or in bed,
You will pay for every bimbo
With the Big Hair on her head.”
Before I got my breath back,
One stepped up to take her place.
She said, “ I’m Katie Willey.
Don’t you recognize my face?”
“All you see in starstruck women
Is hot lips and boobs. Instead,
Look upon your waking nightmare
With my Big Hair on my head. Big Hair on my head.”
Big Hair, Big Hair, I wished that I was dead.
God, there must have been a hundred
With the Big Hair on their head.
That’s when they all came trooping in,
Interns, Flowers, and Jones.
Shelia Lawrence, grey as death,
With Larry’s mobile bones.
Lewinsky’s blown, like Ladybird,
All bouffant as she said,
“My affidavit’s full of air
As Big Hair on my head. Big Hair on my head.”
Big Hair, Big Hair, The last thing Rodham said,
Was “I hope your prison cellmate
Will have Big Hair on his head.”
Big Hair, Big Hair, I’m just fresh meat for the convict
With the Big Hair on his head, Big Hair on his head.
Very neat on guitarist.
It’s such a pretty song.
Grady Martin, legend, and member of Nashville’s A-team.
Looks like Tex Ritter sang it, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uBGYxgsMTA
Also, from Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_of_Laredo_%28song%29
“Streets of Laredo” (Laws B01, Roud 23650), also known as the “Cowboy’s Lament”, is a famous American cowboy ballad in which a dying cowboy tells his story to another cowboy. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
Derived from the English folk song “The Unfortunate Rake”, the song has become a folk music standard, and as such has been performed, recorded and adapted numerous times, with many variations. The title refers to the city of Laredo, Texas.
The old-time cowboy Frank H. Maynard (1853–1926) of Colorado Springs, Colorado, claimed authorship of the revised Cowboy’s Lament, and his story was widely reported in 1924 by the journalism professor Elmo Scott Watson, then on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
And this from Wiki:
Recordings of the song have been made by Eddy Arnold, Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, Burl Ives, Jim Reeves, Roy Rogers, Marty Robbins, Chet Atkins, Arlo Guthrie, Norman Luboff Choir, Rex Allen, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and many country and western singers, as well as avant garde rocker John Cale, the British pop group Prefab Sprout, Snakefarm, Mercury Rev, Jane Siberry, Suzanne Vega and Paul Westerberg. There is also a version on RCA’s How The West Was Won double album, Bing Crosby – 1960. Harry James recorded a version on his 1966 album Harry James & His Western Friends (Dot DLP 3735 and DLP 25735).
Grady Martin Plays Marty Robbins El Paso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AHJwqKUV0k
Published on 26 Sep 2009
Grady Martin provided the great guitar work on Marty Robbins masterpiece ‘El Paso’ and this is one version of two that Grady recorded. One of the all time great American guitarists, he preferred to stay in the background personally, but professionally he was right to the fore playing on many, many great records such as ‘Oh Pretty Woman’, ‘Help Me Make It Through The Night’ and ‘Don’t Worry.’ He recorded with legends like Bing Crosby, Elvis, Patsy Cline, Johnny Horton, Brenda Lee and many more. His best work, he said himself was probably when he played on Marty Robbins recording sessions. A true guitar legend who embellished many records throughout his career.
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