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The film has two characters from Robbins' western ballads – Felina from El Paso, and Secora from San Angelo. [4] The movie is set in 1800s San Angelo, Texas and premiered in that city on August 21, 1963.
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]
"El Paso" is a western ballad written and originally recorded by Marty Robbins, and first released on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs in September 1959. It was released as a single the following month, and became a major hit on both the country and pop music charts , becoming the first No. 1 hit of the 1960s on both.
It was released in May 1975 as the third single and partial title track from the album Keep Movin' On. Originally, it was the theme song to the 1974-1976 NBC-TV series of the same name and references the lead characters of the series, Sonny Pruitt and Will Chandler, by name.
"That's How I Got to Memphis", sometimes titled "How I Got to Memphis", is a country music standard written by American country music artist Tom T. Hall.The song tells a man's story of coming to Memphis to look for a former lover.
On the disco dance charts, "Movin'" went to number 1 for four weeks and spent a total of twelve weeks on the chart. [4] Outside the US, "Movin'" went to number 23 in the UK in 1976 [ 5 ] and peaked at number 24 as "Movin' 1988" when remixed by PWL's Phil Harding .
Approaching an original song for “The Color Purple” presented its own pressures. They had already worked with Bailey for “Be Yourself,” a Chloe x Halle song included on the soundtrack for ...
[13] [14] "Lips Are Movin" is a retro-tinged doo-wop and pop song, with production that makes use of handclaps, and a post-chorus chant reminiscent of the latter. The lyrics, too, reference it with the line, "I gave you bass/You gave me sweet talk." [15] [16] [17] Trainor assumes a Southern-inflected patois while singing over the song's ...