Sold Date: August 24, 2020
Start Date: August 17, 2020
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MARTY ROBBINS Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs 1959 Stereo Vinyl CS 8158

The record sleeve is great shape, with both sides in fine condition. The vinyl itself is perfect and sounds superb! A real treat for those who have not heard the album!

Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs is an album released by Marty Robbins on the Columbia Records label in September 1959, peaking at #6 on the U.S. pop albums chart. It was recorded in a single eight-hour session on April 7, 1959, and was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1965 and Platinum in 1986. It is perhaps best known for Robbins' most successful single, "El Paso", a major hit on both the country and pop music charts, as well as for its opening track "Big Iron," a song that gained a resurgence in popularity on the Internet as a meme It reached #1 in both charts at the start of 1960 and won the Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording the following year. A follow-up album of cowboy songs, More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, was released in 1960. In 2017, the album was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or artistically significant."

Condition is Used. Sold as is. Shipped with USPS Media Mail.