Champagne Ladies and Blue Ribbon Babies

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.

Track listing

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

Musicians

• Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Ron Oats - piano
• Buddy Harman, Jim Isbell - drums
• Billy Linneman, Jack Williams - bass guitar
• Weldon Myrick, Jeff Newman - steel guitar
• Dave Kirby, Grady Martin - electric guitar
• Ray Edenton, Bobby Thompson, Jim Colvard, Jimmy Capps - rhythm guitar
• Harold Bradley, Tommy Allsup, Kelso Herston - electric bass guitar
• Buddy Spicher, Shorty Lavender, Johnny Gimble - fiddle
• Farrell Morris - percussion

Background Vocals

• 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

Production

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

References