Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins

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Notes Chapter 1. In the Hall of fame 1. Country Music Association awards show, October 11, 1982, video excerpt in Marty Robbins: Super Legend (1989). 2. Bill Anderson, email to author, November 4, 2009. 3. Charlie Louvin, telephone interview with author, November 14, 2006. 4. Michael Erlewine, Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, and Stephen Thomas Erlewine, ed., All Music Guide to Country (San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books, 1997), 398. 5. Louie Roberts, telephone interview with author, December 11, 2006. 6. Bobby Allison, telephone interview with author, November 10, 2006; James Hylton, telephone interview with author, March 6, 2007. 7. Cotton Owens, telephone interview with author, December 7, 2006. 8. Al Reinert, “What Makes Marty Robbins Race Against Richard Petty?” Country Music, October 1973. 9. Marty Robbins, Miller and Company, with host Dan Miller, TNN, 1981. 10. Marty Robbins, The Ralph Emery Show, WSM Radio, October 26, 1981. Chapter 2. Child of the Arizona Desert 1. Lillie Robinson Nevitt, “Mom’s Book,” unpublished manuscript. 2. Andrew Means, Some Memories: Growing Up with Marty Robbins (Booklocker .com, 2007), 32–34. 3. Ibid., 41. 4. Nevitt, “Mom’s Book”; and Means, Some Memories, 45. 5. Nevitt, “Mom’s Book.” 6. Means, Some Memories, 49. 7. Nevitt, “Mom’s Book.” 8. Ibid. 9. Ibid.; Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930 Population Schedule, April 21, 1930. 10. Nevitt, “Mom’s Book.” 240 11. Means, Some Memories, 17, 71, 58. 12. Ibid., 50; Ann Todd, letter in Marty Robbins fan club newsletter, “The Drifter,” Fall/Winter 1971; “Marty Robbins 75th Birthday Tribute,” hosted by Eddie Stubbs, WSM Radio, Nashville, September 26, 2000. 13. Nevitt, “Mom’s Book”; Means, Some Memories, 59. 14. Marty Robbins, The Ralph Emery Show, WSM Radio, December 20, 1979, September 16, 1976; Means, Some Memories, 60. 15. Nevitt, “Mom’s Book”; Means, Some Memories, 55. 16. Nevitt, “Mom’s Book”; Means, Some Memories, 57–58. 17. Ibid; Means, Some Memories, 63; Marty Robbins, Miller and Company, with host Dan Miller, TNN, 1981. 18. Nevitt, “Mom’s Book”; Means, Some Memories, 63, 64. 19. Nevitt, “Mom’s Book”; Means, Some Memories, 21. 20. Means, Some Memories, 17–19. 21. Ibid., 56. 22. Marty Robbins, The Ralph Emery Show, December 16, 1977. 23. Nevitt, “Mom’s Book”; Means, Some Memories, 71, 73. 24. Means, Some Memories, 88–89. 25. Ibid., 75; Nevitt, “Mom’s Book.” 26. Nevitt, “Mom’s Book”; Marty Robbins, interview with Bob Allen, Nashville, February 12, 1981; Marty Robbins, interview, Country Music Foundation Oral History Project, Nashville, November 26, 1975. 27. Earl Romine, telephone interview with author, November 11, 2008. 28. Means, Some Memories, 76–77, 26. 29. Ibid., 84. Chapter 3. A Drifter 1. Marty Robbins, Miller and Company, with host Dan Miller, TNN, 1981. 2. Marty Robbins, guest of Bill Mack, WBAP Radio, Fort Worth, TX, February 11, 1982. 3. Marty Robbins, Miller and Company; Marty Robbins, guest of Bill Mack. 4. Marty Robbins, “Gene Autry My Hero,” BMI Work #459610, Mariposa Music Inc. 5. Andrew Means, Some Memories: Growing Up with Marty Robbins (Booklocker .com, Inc., 2007), 90. 6. Marty Robbins, The Ralph Emery Show, WSM Radio, August 12, 1980; Marty Robbins, interview with Bob Allen, Nashville, February 12, 1981. 7. Marty Robbins, The Ralph Emery Show, December 17, 20, 1979; Marty Robbins, Miller and Company; Linda Cornett, “Marty Robbins: Something Unique in Country,” The Record Delta, June 4, 1980. 241 [ NOTeS ] to Pages 9–21 8. Means, Some Memories, 97; Marty Robbins, The Ralph Emery Show, August 14, 1980; Manuel Martinez, telephone interview with author, October 31, 2008. 9. Marty Robbins, interview, Country Music Foundation Oral History Project, Nashville, November 26, 1975. 10. Stella Rodriguez, conversation with author, Glendale, AZ, October 1, 2008; Marty Robbins, Talking Country, with Charlie Cooke, KLAC Radio, Los Angeles, November 18, 1982; Martinez, telephone interview with author, October 31, 2008. 11. Marty Robbins, interview with Bill Black, Country Sounds, Radio Clyde, Glasgow, Scotland, 1978; Marty Robbins, interview with Bob Allen, February 12, 1981. 12. Means, Some Memories, 97–98. 13. Marty Robbins, interview with Bob Allen, February 12, 1981. 14. Marty Robbins, The Ralph Emery Show, September 21, 1973. 15. Marty Robbins, interview with Bob Allen, February 12, 1981. 16. Means, Some Memories, 102–3. 17. Marty Robbins, Miller and Company; Marty Robbins, The Ralph Emery Show, September 13, 1976. 18. Marty Robbins, interview with Bob Allen, February 12, 1981. 19. Marty Robbins, guest of Bill Mack, February 11, 1982...