"Singing the Blues"

 Here’s a song that was very important to a young Marty Robbins back in 1956. Marty was fresh out of the Navy at the end of World War II and working on a local TV show near his home in Arizona. That’s when an established star — West Virginia native Little Jimmy Dickens — discovered him and brought him to Columbia Records. A few years later, Robbins recorded this song and it cemented a career that — over the next quarter century — would see him record more than 500 songs on 60 albums.