At nearly five minutes, Marty Robbins' "El Paso" is the Infinite Jest of early chart-toppers. "El Paso" isn't a dynamic song, exactly; it doesn't swell with instrumentation as it goes along or build ...
Written by Robbins, “El Paso” was first released on his Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs album in September 1959. By January 1960, the song had sold 3.5 million copies and appeared on both country ...