See also Tom Tall and Ginny Wright individual entries.
Tom Tall replaced Jim Reeves as a duet partner for Ginny Wright on Fabor Records. Ginny was at the beginning of her career working with Fabor Robison and Jim Reeves was at the end of his period of working at Abbott Records for Fabor Robison. Robison was enormously talented in picking artists, getting their careers started—and then either dropping them or, more likely, being dropped by them.
Many things have been said about Robison personally, but keeping it on a business level, Robison was an independent in the era of major labels. He often had the goal of getting his artists to bigger labels than his and for that reason was often their managers as well as producers and owner of the labels they recorded for.
This led to tension and conflicts of interest, but in some ways it meant that Robison groomed his artists for others and almost expected them to outgrow him and his homegrown operation.
After Jim Reeves and Ginny Wright has their No. 3 hit, “I Love You,” Reeves left the duo, Fabor Robison and the label altogether. Robison put Wright together with Tom Tall, whom he had found in a talent contest held by disc jockey Squeakin’ Deacon at River Rancho, California. Tom Tall and Ginny Wright worked only a short time together before Ginny quit to get married. It was not something planned and worked out with Tall or Robison. She just disappeared and stopped working with Tall as a partner and Robison as the label owner and producer. According to Wright, Robison would not release her for eight years, hoping she would come back. But she never did and later felt guilty for leaving Tom Tall in the lurch. She concluded, however, “I worked with two of the greatest men—Jim Reeves and Tom Tall.”
