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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]
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]
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.
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 ...
Pages in category "Songs written by Marty Robbins" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... Big Iron; D. Devil Woman (Marty Robbins song) Don ...
El Paso: Marty Robbins Story;1952-1960 (2012) My Woman, My Woman, My Wife/Marty After Midnight (2012) Rocks (2012) Return to Me : Columbia Country Hits; 1959-1982 (2013) Legends/Come Back to Me (2013) El Paso City/Adios Amigo (2013) 101 Devil Woman: Best of Marty Robbins (2013) Just a Little Sentimental/Devil Woman (2013)
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 ]
"A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation)" is a 1957 country and western song with words and music both written by Marty Robbins. It was recorded at the Bradley Studios in Nashville, Tennessee on January 25, 1957, and released on the Columbia Records label on March 4. [2]