Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs is the fifth studio album by Marty Robbins, released on the Columbia Records label in September 1959 and peaking at number 6 on the U.S. pop albums chart. It was recorded in a single eight-hour session on April 7, 1959,[1] and was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1965[2] and Platinum in 1986.[3] 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]
A follow-up album of cowboy songs, More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, was released in 1960. In 2017, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[1]
^ ab"National Recording Registry Picks Are "Over the Rainbow"". Library of Congress. March 29, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
^RIAA Gold and Platinum Database. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
^RIAA Gold and Platinum Database. Retrieved 07 February 2019.
^Feldman, Brian (13 February 2019). "How the 60-Year-Old Country Song 'Big Iron' Became an Enduring Meme". Intelligencer; New York. Vox Media, Inc. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
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