Artist: Marvin RainwaterHere are two songs from a 4-track 7" EP from one of my favorite old-time country singers. Marvin Rainwater was born on July 2, 1925 and celebrated his 84th birthday this year! He's ¼ Cherokee (Rainwater is his mother's maiden name) and was the 73rd inductee into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. You can find more info on Marvin Rainwater here, read his bio on the Rockabilly Hall of Fame page here and visit his website here— where you can sign his guestbook and find out what he's up to nowadays. These notes are from the back of the "Meet Marvin Rainwater" 7" EP, which was made and released in the UK:
MARVIN RAINWATER, who is partly of Cherokee Indian descent,
comes from Wichita, Kansas. One of nature's own musicians,
he has penned hundreds of folk style and religious songs and
recently aroused nation-wide attention in America with his
record of "Gonna' Find Me a Bluebird."
Marvin studied veterinary medicine in Washington and is
supremely fond of horses. Tall and handsome, he has, in a
knock-about character, worked in logging camps and in the
U.S. Navy and at the beginning of his career his friends nick-
named him "Starvin' Marvin." Marvin soon put an end to such
talk when his original song "I Gotta Go to Get My Baby" was
covered by six artists on records and made his name a power
to reckon with in the field of country music. Marvin turned the
corner on the road to fame when he won first place on Arthur
Godfrey's talent scouts which led to regular work at CBS in
New York and ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee in Springfield, Mo.
Marvin already has many friends in this country and is
making no small contribution to the growing interest that
exists in country music of which he is, indeed, one of
America's supreme exponents.
comes from Wichita, Kansas. One of nature's own musicians,
he has penned hundreds of folk style and religious songs and
recently aroused nation-wide attention in America with his
record of "Gonna' Find Me a Bluebird."
Marvin studied veterinary medicine in Washington and is
supremely fond of horses. Tall and handsome, he has, in a
knock-about character, worked in logging camps and in the
U.S. Navy and at the beginning of his career his friends nick-
named him "Starvin' Marvin." Marvin soon put an end to such
talk when his original song "I Gotta Go to Get My Baby" was
covered by six artists on records and made his name a power
to reckon with in the field of country music. Marvin turned the
corner on the road to fame when he won first place on Arthur
Godfrey's talent scouts which led to regular work at CBS in
New York and ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee in Springfield, Mo.
Marvin already has many friends in this country and is
making no small contribution to the growing interest that
exists in country music of which he is, indeed, one of
America's supreme exponents.
[ Marvin Rainwater ]
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