RIBBON OF DARKNESS

Created on 16/03/2006
Latest update on 13/04/2024

Artist: Marty Robbins
Author: Gordon Lightfoot
Label: Columbia
Year: 1965

N°1 C&W.

Covers:

1965:

Gordon Lightfoot [author on debut album]

1966:

Jan Howard

1966:

Conway Twitty

1967:

Pozo-Seco Singers

1969:

Connie Smith

1969:

Jack Greene

1969:

Roy Drusky

1969:

Glenn Yarbrough

1971:

Hank Snow

1982:

Poco

2001:

Don McLean

2003:

Bruce Cockburn [on Lightfoot tribute]

2015:

Jack Scott

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1956
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1956
SINGING THE BLUES
1956
YOU DON'T OWE ME A THING
1957
STORY OF MY LIFE, THE
1959
THEY'RE HANGING ME TONIGHT
1960
BALLAD OF THE ALAMO, THE
1963
MAN WALKS AMONG US
1966
YOU GAVE ME A MOUNTAIN

Covers from artist:

1954
ALOHA OE
1954
THAT'S ALL RIGHT
1955
IDA RED
1956
LONG TALL SALLY
1956
LONG GONE LONESOME BLUES
1956
PAPER OF PINS, A
1956
MY MOTHER WAS A LADY
1957
I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY
1957
LOVESICK BLUES
1957
I HANG MY HEAD AND CRY
1957
BOUQUET OF ROSES
1957
LEILANI (WREATH OF HEAVEN)
1957
LITTLE ROSEBUD CASKET
1957
LETTER EDGED IN BLACK, THE
1957
SUGAREE
1958
BEYOND THE REEF
1959
BILLY THE KID
1959
COOL WATER
1959
DREAM OF THE MINER'S CHILD
1959
STRAWBERRY ROAN
1959
LITTLE GREEN VALLEY, THE
1959
WHEN IT'S LAMPLIGHTING TIME IN THE VALLEY
1960
OH BURY ME OUT ON THE PRAIRIE
1961
ARE YOU SINCERE
1961
TO EACH HIS OWN
1962
I'LL WALK ALONE
1963
KE KALI NEI AU
1964
IT'S A SIN
1964
MARIA ELENA
1965
WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN (BY AND BY)
1965
EVENING PRAYER, AN
1965
HAVE THINE OWN WAY, LORD
1965
WHOOPIE TI YI YO (GIT ALONG LITTLE DOGIES)
1966
WHEN THE WORK'S ALL DONE THIS FALL
1966
THERE IS POWER IN THE BLOOD
1968
AS TIME GOES BY
1968
THEY'LL NEVER TAKE HER LOVE FROM ME
1968
BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX
1968
THAT OLD FEELING
1968
AM I THAT EASY TO FORGET
1968
AMOUR EST BLEU, L'
1968
SHE THINKS I STILL CARE
1969
YOU GAVE ME A MOUNTAIN
1969
HALF AS MUCH
1970
PADRE DON JOSÉ
1970
ST. JAMES INFIRMARY
1970
ARMY BLUE
1972
IT'S NOT LOVE (BUT IT'S NOT BAD)
1973
EIGHTEEN YELLOW ROSES
1973
LAURA (WHAT'S HE GOT THAT I AIN'T GOT)
1973
AMOR
1974
I HEARD THE BLUEBIRD SING
1975
LIFE
1976
SOUVENIRS
1977
RETURN TO ME
1977
TREE IN THE MEADOW, A
1977
I DON'T KNOW WHY (I JUST DO)
1977
CAN I SLEEP IN YOUR BARN TONIGHT MISTER
1978
ROVING GAMBLER, THE
1978
I'VE NEVER LOVED ANYONE MORE
1981
I'M HERE TO GET MY BABY OUT OF JAIL
1981
TEARDROPS IN MY HEART
1982
THAT'S ALL SHE WROTE
1984
GHOST RIDERS IN THE SKY (A COWBOY LEGEND)
1987
IF WE MAKE IT THROUGH DECEMBER
1995
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Some originals by author:

1965
EARLY MORNING RAIN
1965
FOR LOVIN' ME
1965
I'M NOT SAYING
1966
WAY I FEEL, THE

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