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806. FIPS code. 48-71060 [2] GNIS feature ID. 1369397 [3] Sundown is a small town in Hockley County, Texas, United States. The community school district is Sundown ISD. The population was 1,283 at the 2020 census, [4] a decrease from 1,397 at the 2010 census.
Vidor, Texas. Categories: Sundown towns in the United States by state. History of racism in Texas.
Sundown (Gordon Lightfoot song) " Sundown " is a song by Canadian folk artist Gordon Lightfoot, from the titular album, released as a single in March 1974. "Sundown" reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and easy listening charts [2] and No. 13 on the Hot Country singles chart, [3] as well as No. 1 in Canada on RPM ' s national singles chart.
He topped the US Hot 100 and/or AC chart with the hits "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown" (1974); "Carefree Highway" (1974), "Rainy Day People" (1975), and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976), and had many other hits that appeared within the top 40. [2] Several of his albums achieved gold and multi-platinum status ...
"Carefree Highway" is a song written by Gordon Lightfoot and was the second single release from his 1974 album, Sundown. It peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent one week at No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart in October 1974. [1] The title comes from a section of Arizona State Route 74 in north Phoenix. He was driving from ...
Released: September 8, 2014. "Diamond Rings and Old Barstools". Released: January 26, 2015. Sundown Heaven Town is the thirteenth studio album by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released on September 16, 2014 by Big Machine Records .
Sundown is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot 's ninth studio album, released in 1974 on the Reprise Records label. It was the only Lightfoot album to reach No. 1 on the pop chart in the US. In his native Canada, it topped the RPM 100 for five consecutive weeks, first hitting No. 1 on June 22, 1974, the same day it reached the top of the chart ...
Alvin Morgan received a land grant from the state of Texas prior to 1891. Alvin was a sundown town in the 1930s, where practically no African Americans were allowed to live. [7] In 1960, the city annexed a 100-foot-wide (30 m) 137-mile-long (220 km) stretch of land to protect Alvin from being annexed by other cities.