Dori Helms

Ruby's Answer (Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town)

1967 · Little Darlin' LD-0029 · USA

Ruby's Answer (Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town) – Dori Helms (A-side label)

Artist
Dori Helms
Title
Ruby's Answer (Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town)
Release
Ruby's Answer / I'll Keep Them From Laughing
Year
1967
Label
Little Darlin' # LD-0029
Format
7" · Single
Language
English
Country
USA
Songwriter
T. Dee, Mel Tillis
Genre
Country · Honky Tonk
Primary theme
Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective

Annotation

Ruby's Answer (Helms, Dori) (Little Darlin' Records # LD-0029) Country pop. Nashville, Tennessee. Answer song to Johnny Darrell's single Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town (February 1967), written by Mel Tillis. Later released in 1969 by Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

Little Darlin' LD-0029 (U4KM-1309), "Promotional Copy"; "Ruby's Answer (Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town)" (T. Dee–M. Tillis), 2:50, Cedarwood Publ., BMI; produced by Aubrey Mayhew; "A Product of Little Darlin' Corporation". [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes

Soldier's Perspective · Answer to Ruby

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