Champagne Ladies and Blue Ribbon Babies
| Champagne Ladies and Blue Ribbon Babies | ||||
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| Released | 1974 | |||
| Studio | Woodland (Nashville, Tennessee) | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | ABC | |||
| Producer | Don Grant | |||
| Ferlin Husky chronology | ||||
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Champagne Ladies and Blue Ribbon Babies is an album by American country music singer Ferlin Husky, released in 1974 by ABC Records. The album reached #43 in the US Country Charts. The title track single "Champagne Ladies and Blue Ribbon Babies" reached #34 in the US Country Charts and the single of "Burning" reached #37. These were his last chart-making singles. "Wings of a Dove," a gospel song, was a No. 1 country hit in 1960 and was one of his signature songs.[1]
Track listing
[edit]Side A
- "Champagne Ladies and Blue Ribbon Babies" (Dallas Frazier, A.L. "Doodle" Owens) – 2:41
- "How Is Your Love Life" (Troy Shondell, Chuck Wadley) – 2:27
- "Wings of a Dove" (Bob Ferguson) – 2:14
- "Walls Instead of Bridges" (Barbara Shockley) – 2:59
- "I Feel Better All Over" (Ken Rogers, Leon Smith) – 2:33
Side B
- "Burning" (Jerry Foster, Bill Rice) – 2:39
- "Good News" (Rory Bourke) – 2:43
- "Ghost Story" (Joe Allen) – 2:34
- "A Touch of Yesterday" (Dallas Frazier, A.L. "Doodle" Owens) – 2:14
- "Gone" (Smokey Rogers) – 2:13
Musicians
[edit]- Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Ron Oats - piano
- Buddy Harman, Jim Isbell - drums
- Billy Linneman, Jack Williams - bass guitar
- Weldon Myrick, Jeff Newman - steel guitar
- Dave Kirby, Grady Martin - electric guitar
- Ray Edenton, Bobby Thompson, Jim Colvard, Jimmy Capps - rhythm guitar
- Harold Bradley, Tommy Allsup, Kelso Herston - electric bass guitar
- Buddy Spicher, Shorty Lavender, Johnny Gimble - fiddle
- Farrell Morris - percussion
Background Vocals
[edit]- The Jordanaires (Hoyt Hawkins, Neal Matthews, Jr., Gordon Stoker, Ray Walker)
- The Nashville Sound (Louis Nunley, Dotty Dillard, Gil Wright, Jeannine Walker, Ernest West)
- Marvin Husky
Production
[edit]- Producer: Don Grant
- Recorded at: Woodland Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
- Mixing Engineer: Rex Collier
- Mastering Engineer: Bob Sowell
- Album Photography: Ken Kim
References
[edit]- ^ "Ferlin Husky Biography". ferlinhusky.com. Archived from the original on 2016-02-17. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
- ^ a b c d Original album sleeve notes