Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: BCD16741
- Format: CD
- UPC: 4000127167415
- Street Date: 01/02/07
- PreBook Date: 01/01/01
- Label: Bear Family Records »
- Genre: Country
- Run Time: 78 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2007
- Box Lot: 25
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
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Tom Tall & Ginny Wright - Are You Mine
1 CD with 36-page booklet, 31 individual tracks, playing time 78:32 minutes
- List Price: $24.99
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The story of Tom Tall and Ginny Wright is inextricably bound up with one of the music business's larger-than-lifecharacters: Fabor Robison. In addition to Tom Tall and Ginny Wright, he also discovered Johnny Horton, Jim Reeves, theDeCastro Sisters, Mitchell Torok, the Browns, Bonnie Guitar, and Ned Miller. That would be enough talent for any label,but Fabor managed to alienate them all (in fact, it's rumoured that Jim Reeves wanted to shoot him).
Ginny Wright came to Fabor Records to cut a duet with Jim Reeves , and I Love You was a big country hit, peaking at#3 in 1953/4. In November 1954, Ginny Wright recorded Are You Mine with Tom Tall, and it became a #2 country hit, andmakes its first-ever appearance on CD here. But then, with the record high in the charts, Ginny Wright just simply quit. Shewent back to Texas. Years later, she recorded again and even made some more records with Tom Tall, but mostly shecared for her family in Texas. In 2003, she reappeared briefly to become a Louisiana Hayride Hall of Fame inductee.
Tom Tall (no, not Tom T. Hall, but Tom Tall) was also from Texas, although his family migrated to California whenhe was a kid, and that's where he met Fabor Robison. For a couple of years in the early/mid 1950s, Tom Talllooked like a contender. He made sharp west coast country music with a hint of rockabilly (like the classic HotRod Is Her Name), and appeared on all the top shows?'Ozark Jubilee,' 'Town Hall Party,' and 'The Grand OleOpry,' and even toured Texas with Elvis. He was a talent who just didn't get the breaks. Later, after leavingFabor, he befriended Eddie Cochran and hung around the Los Angeles music scene before moving to LasVegas, where he is to this day. Now Bear Family tells the unique and fascinating story of Tom Tall and GinnyWright with Fabor Robison pulling the strings in the background. Longtime fans will remember our Ginny Wrightand Tom Tall LPs, and now they're on CD.
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