When I was 19, I sang on TV in Bulawayo, and wore a check shirt with a scarf around my neck. I grew up with cowboy comics, and loved the idea of the wild west. I used to have an air pistol and shoot at tin cans like I saw in the cowboy comics. So Marty Robbins songs like El Paso and Running gun appealed to me. I used to sing Running Gun a lot when I was a teenager.
Red River Valley has always been one of my favorite love songs. I heard my mother sing this when I was little. “From this valley they say you are leaving. I shall miss your bright eyes and sweet smile.” It reminds me of a girl I used to know.
Marty Robbins – a favourite love song about a Devil woman
I loved to sing the line: “Running along by the seashore, running as fast as a can, even the seagulls are happy, ‘cause I’m coming home again.” That tied in with my love for the sea.
“A hundred and sixty acres full of sunshine, a hundred and sixty million stars above.” In the 70’s I had a tape of favourite love songs by Marty Robbins, and this one was my favourite. I also remember another song about a guy riding a bucking bronco in a continental suit.
At a friend’s house I also heard Marty Robbins sing a gospel song which I still remember after all these years: “Blessed Jesus should I fall, don’t let me lay, if I stumble and go down along the way.”
I have heard this song on the radio, and it is very touching. It makes me think of my wife and the troubles she has been through, but she is a real saint.
I have seen this song on TV and heard it on the radio. One line really stands out to me: “Love can’t be explained.” It can’t be denied. Everyone needs love. Even the stray cats around our home need love, and come for head pats.
I first head Elvis Presley sing this song, but I think on the radio they said that Marty Robbins wrote it. I notice that he died in 1982, and I remember him singing in Hamilton Ontario that year, but didn’t manage to see him. Nobody lasts forever. Whatever good you can do for anybody, do it now.
SOME OF MY FAVOURITE LOVE SONGS THAT I HAD ON THIS PAGE HAVE BEEN TAKEN OFF THE NET. SAD.
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