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"Big Iron" is a country ballad song written and performed by Marty Robbins. Originally released as an album track on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs in September 1959, it was released as a single in February 1960 with the song "Saddle Tramp" as the B-side single. [ 2 ]
Pruett, Barbara J. Marty Robbins: Fast Cars and Country Music. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. 2007. ISBN 0-8108-6036-8; Diekman, Diane. Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins (Music in American Life). 2012. Fallout: New Vegas – Big Iron is used on Radio New Vegas, Mojave Music Radio, and Black Mountain Radio.
It is perhaps best known for Robbins's 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 online as an Internet meme after its inclusion in the 2010 video game Fallout: New Vegas. [4]
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Marty Robbins – Medley (Big Iron, Running Gun, El Paso) From Season 1, Episode 17, originally aired January 28, 1970. Johnny Cash – Come Along And Ride This Train; Johnny Cash – As Long As The Grass Shall Grow; Johnny Cash – Man in Black; James Taylor – Sweet Baby James From Season 2, Episode 20, originally aired February 17, 1971.
Michael Martin Murphey (born March 14, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter. He was one of the founding artists of progressive country. [3] A multiple Grammy nominee, Murphey has six gold albums, including Cowboy Songs, the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs by Marty Robbins in 1959.
The name of the character Feleena [2] was based upon a schoolmate of Robbins in the fifth grade, Fidelina Martinez. [3] Members of the Western Writers of America chose "El Paso" as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. [4] In 1998, the 1959 recording of "El Paso" on Columbia Records by Marty Robbins was inducted into the Grammy Hall of ...
It was released in 1960 by Columbia Records as a sequel to Robbins's 1959 hit album Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs. In Billboard magazine's annual poll of country music disc jockeys, More Gunfighter Ballads was rated No. 9 among the "Favorite C&W Albums" of 1960. [ 2 ]