donnica59 - You Gave Me A Mountain
donnica59
Apr 24, 2024 06:56pm
<p><img src="https://singsnap-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/message-board/threads/CH4B/a4d3fc46db_I94S_media.gif"></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>I think this is the song I first sang that the cowboy noticed about me.</p><p>miss you Cowboy 🤠</p><p><br></p><p>1969</p><p><br></p><p>"<strong>You Gave Me a Mountain</strong>" (sometimes credited as "<strong>Lord, You Gave Me a Mountain</strong>") is a song written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(121, 92, 178);">country</a> singer-songwriter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Robbins" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(121, 92, 178);">Marty Robbins</a> during the 1960s.</p><p> It has been recorded by many artists, including Robbins himself, but the highest-charting version of the song was by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Laine" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(121, 92, 178);">Frankie Laine</a> in 1969. </p><p>This version was included on Laine's album of the same name.</p><h2><br></h2><p>In Laine's autobiography <em>That Lucky Old Son</em>, he stated that, "Marty Robbins once told me that he'd been trying to bring 'You Gave Me a Mountain' to my attention for several years before he finally succeeded in November 1968. </p><p>I wish he'd been quicker about it. </p><p>There were many times in the mid-60s when I longed for a song of its quality."</p><p><br></p><p>The lyrics to the song detail a series of challenges that the singer has endured in his life, including the death of his mother while giving birth to him, </p><p>Deprived of the love of his father was like time spent in prison "for something that I never done" and the singer's wife taking their child and leaving. </p><p>He describes these setbacks as hills that he has scaled in the past, but then states that "this time, Lord, you gave me a mountain / A mountain you know I may never climb". </p><p>The original third line of Robbins' song mentioned that he was "despised and disliked from my father", but Laine requested that this line be changed to "deprived of the love of my father" when he recorded his version, since Laine's father had died shortly before the recording took place</p><h2><br></h2><p>Released as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_(music)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(121, 92, 178);">single</a> in early 1969, Laine's version of the song was a hit single for the 55-year-old singer on U.S. singles charts. It peaked at #24 on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(121, 92, 178);"><em>Billboard</em> Hot 100</a> chart in March of that year, remaining in the Top 40 for seven weeks, and was the final Top 40 hit of Laine's long career. </p><p>That same month, the song spent two weeks atop the <em>Billboard</em> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Adult_Contemporary_Tracks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(121, 92, 178);">Easy Listening</a> chart.</p><p><br></p><p>Thanks Wiki</p>