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This was a fun little diversion...

OK - I am of years but I thought I remembered this tune so I got busy with a web search (I have learned to do that...). Gibson apparently wrote the tune in 1956 and recorded it in 1957, and, according to the City of Abilene (KS) website, wasn't thinking of either TX or KS but a woman?? The co-author, John Loudermilk wrote a number of songs for Hamilton, who recorded his version of Abilene in 1963, after several others had already done so. The following links seem to confirm all of this. Don't ask me what I had for breakfast yesterday though...!

http://www.countrypolitan.com/bio-georg ... ton-iv.php

http://www.abilene.com/visitors/visitor ... esong.html

http://members.chello.nl/~k.vanderhoeven/JDL.html#abi

Bob Gibson late 1950s - banjo picker.

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