Ruby's Answer (Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town)
1967 · Little Darlin' LD-0029 · USA
- 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
- Mel Tillis, Dori Helms
- Genre
- Country · Country
- 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
About the artist
Unknown - "Ruby's Answer (Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town)" was issued on Little Darlin' LD-0029 in 1967, the sleeve crediting 'Sister Dori Helms'; no biographical record has been located for the singer. The Clemson University administrator of the same name was examined and rejected as unconnected. A name variation 'Dori Carroll' also appears in label listings. [Source: Discogs (release only); Little Darlin' label discography]