HE WAS INDUCTED INTO THE COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME IN OCTOBER 1982. HIS LAST HIT WAS CALLED “SOME MEMORIES JUST WON’T DIE.” EIGHT WEEKS LATER, HE WAS GONE. “I’ve done what I wanted to do.” In 1982, everything came together for Marty Robbins — and then ended. October brought the Hall of Fame. His latest single, “Some Memories Just Won’t Die,” was climbing the charts. He’d just run his final NASCAR race. 500 songs. 60 albums. 16 number ones. Two Grammys. Then on December 2, his third heart attack hit. Surgery couldn’t save him. Six days later, he was gone. He was 57. The title of his last song wasn’t chosen as a farewell. But after December 8, 1982, it became one — the kind no songwriter could have planned. Some memories just won’t die. Neither will his.
admin Marty Robbins and the Song That Became a Farewell In the final months of 1982, Marty Robbins seemed to be standing in a rare kind of light — the kind…