Wink Martindale - I Was That Soldier

Cat. no: JASCD1093
Format: CD
Barcode: 604988109320
Release Date: 29 Oct 2021
Genre: Easy Listening

This compilation presents the very best of Wink Martindale’s early record career, mainly for Dot Records between 1958-62, but kicking off with a pair of almost unfeasibly rare R&R 45s recorded for a tiny indie label, OJ, in 1957. Many of these sides are hard to find elsewhere on CD.

In Britain, Wink Martindale is known solely for his signature hit, the multi-platinum ‘Deck Of Cards’, which has made the UK charts on three separate occasions, 1959, 1963 and 1973. However in the US, where Martindale has enjoyed a seven-decade career, he is an acknowledged high profile multi-media personality, having had successes as a disc jockey, radio personality, television game show host, and TV producer.

His spinoff recording career yielded a dozen or so further 45s, which included further US hits, ‘Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address’ and ‘Black Land Farmer’ and a couple of big-selling, now highly collectable LPs, “Deck Of Cards” and “Big Bad John”. Although now in his late eighties, Wink is still active as a TV presenter in the US.

Tracks: Love’s Got Me Thinkin’ / All Love Broke Loose / Deck Of Cards / Now You Know How It Feels / The Shifting Whispering Sands / Peace In The Valley / Trees / Beyond The Sunset / Little Boy Blue / Moon River / Melody Of Love / Steal Away / Life Gets Tee-Jus, Don’t It? / I Never See Maggie Alone / Blue Bobby Sox / Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address / I Wanna Play House / Black Land Farmer / Make Him Happy / Man Needs A Woman / Three Steps To The Phone / Big Bad John / I’m Movin’ On / On The Banks Of The Old Pontchartrain / Mommy Please Stay Home With Me / The Thing / Sweet Little Loveable You / The World’s Greatest Man / Vision At The Peace Table / I Saw Me