Marty Robbins

Martin David Robinson (known as Marty Robbins) ( Glendale (Arizona) , September 26th 1925 - Nashville (Tennessee) , December 8 1982 ) was an American country music singer , songwriter and musician. He is considered one of the most popular country musicians of his time. He received regularly the top of country charts and also wrote pop hits.



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 ==[Biography  edit ] == Robbins was born in Glendale (Arizona) in a family of 10 children. The difficult situation at home made ​​sure he left home in 1937 and in the United States Navy was employed. During World War II he was stationed on the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean where he learned to play guitar and began writing music.
 * 1 Biography
 * 2 Movies
 * 3 NASCAR
 * 4 Discography
 * 4.1   Hot Country Songs No. 1 singles

After his military service ended in 1947, he began performing locally in Phoenix and got his own television show on KPHO-TV in Phoenix. When country singer Little Jimmy Dickens was a guest on his show, it gave him a recording contract with Columbia Records . This was the start of a forty-year career with many number 1 hits and performances at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.

Robbins married on September 27, 1948 with Marizona Baldwin (11 September 1930-10 July 2001) whom he later song My Woman, My Woman, My Wife commanded.They had two children, Janet and Ronny.

In December 1982, Robbins got his third heart attack in thirteen years and died in the hospital from complications after heart surgery.

Robbins was incorporated in 1975 into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1989 in the Western Music Association Hall of Fame in 1982, the Country Music Hall of Fame and in 2009 in America's Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame ==Movies [  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Robbins played between 1957 and 1982 in several films and television series including Guns of a Stranger in 1973. In 1967 he played in a racing movie Hell on Wheels. In 1982 he played Smoky, a musician in the film Honkytonk Man by Clint Eastwood . He died a few weeks before the film came out in the halls. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1] ==NASCAR <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Robbins was a big NASCAR -fan and drove regularly between 1966 and 1982 races where he finished in the top ten six times. After his death in 1983, the Coors 420honoring Robbins renamed the Marty Robbins 420. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2] ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Discography  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Marty Robbins released 52 studio albums, 13 compilation albums and 100 singles. Robbins reached 17 times in his career, the first place on the Billboard Hot Country Songs and reached 82 times the single top 40. ===Hot Country Songs No. 1 singles <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * I'll Go on Alone - 1952
 * Singing the Blues - 1956
 * A White Sport Coat - 1956
 * The Story of My Life - 1957
 * Just Married - 1958
 * El Paso - 1959
 * Do not Worry - 1961
 * Devil Woman - 1962
 * Ruby Ann - 1962
 * Begging to You - 1963
 * Ribbon of Darkness - 1965
 * Tonight Carmen - 1967
 * I Walk Alone - 1968
 * My Woman, My Woman, My Wife - 1969
 * El Paso City - 1975
 * Among My Souvenirs - 1976