Jim Reeves ‎– Padre of San Antone / Mother Went A-Walkin

Forgotten Music on 78 RPM Records   S3productions started 10-10-2017

Jim Reeves ‎– Padre of San Antone / Mother Went A-Walkin

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Label: Abbott Record Co. ‎– 168

Format: 10” 78 RPM Shellac

Released: July 1954?

  Genre: Folk, World, & Country

Style: Country

A: Padre of San Antone

Composer Tim Spencer

B: Mother Went A-Walkin

Tom Bearden

Abbott Record Co.

Profile: Record label launched in 1951 by talent scout Fabor Robinson in partnership with drugstore owner Sid Abbott of Abbott Drugs. The label ceased production in 1957.

After serving a stint in the U.S. Army during World War II, Arkansas native Fabor Robison (b. 1911 — d. 1986) settled in Southern California and began to work as a talent scout. Robison took a special interest in singer Jim Reeves, to such extent that Johnny Horton became aggravated with Robison and dropped him as manager; Robison countered by representing Reeves instead. Reeves' records of "Mexican Joe" and "Bimbo" became the first chart hits on the Abbott Label.

James Travis Reeves (August 20, 1923 – July 31, 1964) was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter. With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s, he became well known as a practitioner of the Nashville sound (a mixture of older country-style music with elements of popular music). Known as "Gentleman Jim",