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I like his song El Paso and when I saw it on his Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs cassette in 1984 and I bought it. Turned out I liked all the songs on that cassette and I played it for years. About 10 years later, I bought a CD box set of his, Marty Robbins - 1951-1982, with 51 of his songs.

His biggest hit was probably El Paso but what I liked about the CD box set was he had two songs related to the song El Paso. Felenna is a beautiful song about the Mexican maiden the cowboy fell in love with in El Paso. The other song is El Paso City in which a man is in a plane flying over El Paso and reminiscences about hearing song about a cowboy and a Mexican maiden in El Paso.