TEXAS MUSIC IS LOVED ERNEST TUBB For DECEMBER 20th 2014 Ernest Tubb ‘The Texas Troubadour’ (Singer and Member of the Country Music Hall of Fame) was born in 1914 on a cotton farm near Crisp, in Ellis County, Texas (now a ghost town) His father was a sharecropper and Tubb spent his youth working on farms throughout the state. The song Soldiers Last Letter was a country music song released in the United States in 1944. It was written By Redd Stewart and Ernest Tubb. In 1941, following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Redd was drafted into the U.S. Army and sent to the South Pacific. While stationed there with the rank of sergeant, Redd wrote A Soldiers Last Letter, which Ernest Tubb worked on and recorded in 1944, making it a No.1 hit staying at the top for four weeks out of a seven month stay on the Country charts, and crossing over to the Pop chart Top 20. The B-side of the Ernest Tubb recording of Soldiers Last Letter a song entitled, Yesterdays Tears peaked at number four on the Juke Box Folk chart. Merle Haggard later had a hit single with the song in 1970.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 12:06:37 +0000