On Thursday 30 January 2025, Gene Watson extended 90th birthday wishes to fellow country music artist, Jeanne Pruett.
‘I’d like to wish a Happy 90th birthday to the great singer/songwriter, Ms. Jeanne Pruett, who turned 90 years young Today (Thursday 30 January 2025)’
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Gene Watson recorded Jeanne Pruett’s ‘Count Me Out’ and included the track on ‘My Heroes Have Always Been Country‘ (Fourteen Carat Music, 2014). The original version of this track was recorded by Marty Robbins (Saturday 26 September 1925 – Wednesday 8 December 1982) for Columbia Records in 1966 as a non-album single, reaching No.14 on the Billboard country music singles chart in 1966; the track was subsequently included on Marty Robbins’ ‘No Signs of Loneliness Here’ (Columbia Records, 1975).
Gene Watson‘s ‘My Heroes Have Always Been Country‘ (Fourteen Carat Music, 2014) was officially released by Fourteen Carat Music on Tuesday 10 June 2014, and reached No.48 on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart in 2014.