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Champagne Ladies and Blue Ribbon Babies

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Champagne Ladies and Blue Ribbon Babies
Studio album by
Released1974
StudioWoodland (Nashville, Tennessee)
GenreCountry
LabelABC
ProducerDon Grant
Ferlin Husky chronology
Freckles and Polliwog Days
(1974)
Champagne Ladies and Blue Ribbon Babies
(1974)
Foster and Rice Songbook
(1975)

Champagne Ladies and Blue Ribbon Babies is an album by American country music singer Ferlin Husky, released in 1974 by ABC Records. The album reached #43 in the US Country Charts. The title track single "Champagne Ladies and Blue Ribbon Babies" reached #34 in the US Country Charts and the single of "Burning" reached #37. These were his last chart-making singles. "Wings of a Dove," a gospel song, was a No. 1 country hit in 1960 and was one of his signature songs.[1]

Track listing

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Side A

  1. "Champagne Ladies and Blue Ribbon Babies" (Dallas Frazier, A.L. "Doodle" Owens) – 2:41
  2. "How Is Your Love Life" (Troy Shondell, Chuck Wadley) – 2:27
  3. "Wings of a Dove" (Bob Ferguson) – 2:14
  4. "Walls Instead of Bridges" (Barbara Shockley) – 2:59
  5. "I Feel Better All Over" (Ken Rogers, Leon Smith) – 2:33

Side B

  1. "Burning" (Jerry Foster, Bill Rice) – 2:39
  2. "Good News" (Rory Bourke) – 2:43
  3. "Ghost Story" (Joe Allen) – 2:34
  4. "A Touch of Yesterday" (Dallas Frazier, A.L. "Doodle" Owens) – 2:14
  5. "Gone" (Smokey Rogers) – 2:13

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Musicians

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Background Vocals

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  • The Jordanaires (Hoyt Hawkins, Neal Matthews, Jr., Gordon Stoker, Ray Walker)
  • The Nashville Sound (Louis Nunley, Dotty Dillard, Gil Wright, Jeannine Walker, Ernest West)
  • Marvin Husky

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Production

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  • Producer: Don Grant
  • Recorded at: Woodland Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
  • Mixing Engineer: Rex Collier
  • Mastering Engineer: Bob Sowell
  • Album Photography: Ken Kim

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References

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  1. ^ "Ferlin Husky Biography". ferlinhusky.com. Archived from the original on 2016-02-17. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
  2. ^ a b c d Original album sleeve notes