Cold Songs Top Ten: Ice Cold Love (#9)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86812)
United States
December 20, 2022 10:56am CST
You know it’s going to be cold when they’re issuing cold warnings in Mobile, Alabama! 
I’m enjoying the sunshine and relative warmth (37F is about 38 degrees warmer than it’s going to be. Hot chocolate is the order of the weekend, along with songs with “cold” in the title. Linda? No. 
#9 Ice Cold Love - Benny Martin
One difference in bluegrass and country music is how the legends of the past are honored. Benny Martin could fiddle. OH! how could he fiddle. That’s his great work on Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper’s hit “Come Walk With Me.” (Okay, who am I kidding, you have no idea who Wilma Lee & Stoney are, either! 
)
Martin also wrote and sang. This is one of his best-remembered songs.
Unfortunately, in country music he’s one of a million (along with Wilma Lee and Stoney) thrown on the trash heap of “that’s old country, and we don’t want to talk or think about it.” Bluegrass, however, is a different subject (albeit similar music style), and Martin’s music is fondly remembered. A number of acts have covered this song.
I sure remember him!
Ice Cold Love
Written by Benny Martin
Recorded by Benny Martin
Released as a single, 1956
I wish I knew:
I’m enjoying the sunshine and relative warmth (37F is about 38 degrees warmer than it’s going to be. Hot chocolate is the order of the weekend, along with songs with “cold” in the title. Linda? No.
#9 Ice Cold Love - Benny Martin
One difference in bluegrass and country music is how the legends of the past are honored. Benny Martin could fiddle. OH! how could he fiddle. That’s his great work on Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper’s hit “Come Walk With Me.” (Okay, who am I kidding, you have no idea who Wilma Lee & Stoney are, either! )
Martin also wrote and sang. This is one of his best-remembered songs.
Unfortunately, in country music he’s one of a million (along with Wilma Lee and Stoney) thrown on the trash heap of “that’s old country, and we don’t want to talk or think about it.” Bluegrass, however, is a different subject (albeit similar music style), and Martin’s music is fondly remembered. A number of acts have covered this song.
I sure remember him!
Ice Cold Love
Written by Benny Martin
Recorded by Benny Martin
Released as a single, 1956
I wish I knew:
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9 responses
@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
20 Dec 22
Never heard this one, but surely I had heard him before? What a scrambler he was..a mighty good song..
I also think I had plenty of ice cold love
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@FourWalls (86812)
• United States
21 Dec 22
Yeah, I’m sure a lot of people can identify with ice cold loves. There’s another song with this theme later in the countdown.
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@Deepizzaguy (122269)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
20 Dec 22
Even though Benny Martin is an artist that I have never heard of before, I enjoy his style of music.
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@FourWalls (86812)
• United States
21 Dec 22
I’m glad you liked it. Bluegrass is a lot of fun, to me. There’s another bluegrass song later in the countdown.
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@Deepizzaguy (122269)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
21 Dec 22
@FourWalls I like listening to music from the past era.
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@RasmaSandra (98072)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20 Dec 22
Definitely not one I have heard before. There is one I do remember Are we having Cold Cold Heart?
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@FourWalls (86812)
• United States
21 Dec 22
That was the teaser (well, the Homer & Jethro parody).
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@dgobucks226 (37621)
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24 Dec 22
That's a fun selection, unfortunately she's "Cold as Ice." Bluegrass music is so catchy even when their singing about a cold heart. Not directly mentioning the word cold but love the song by Gord called "Song for a Winter's Night." Gordon's mellow voice is so relaxing, and those background bells just add to the peaceful feel. One thing these songs do have in common is a longing for their lovely ladies 
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@FourWalls (86812)
• United States
24 Dec 22
Don’t you worry, Gord put “cold” in the title of a couple of songs, and he’ll be along shortly. 
Bluegrass is so cool because they have all those murder songs that you’re stomping your feet to because of the tempo!
Bluegrass is so cool because they have all those murder songs that you’re stomping your feet to because of the tempo! 1 person likes this
@dgobucks226 (37621)
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25 Dec 22
@FourWalls Well put! Glad to hear Gord will be on this countdown. It would be like getting the Cold Shoulder without one of his tunes, lol. Having a song by that Canadian Minstrel on your countdown is better than any ball drop countdown to New Year's. And way more fun 
Well put! Glad to hear Gord will be on this countdown. It would be like getting the Cold Shoulder without one of his tunes, lol. Having a song by that Canadian Minstrel on your countdown is better than any ball drop countdown to New Year's. And way more fun 1 person likes this
@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
20 Dec 22
You have songs for all situations and for seasons. Stay warm and enjoy the music.
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@FourWalls (86812)
• United States
20 Dec 22
I try to find songs for all situations.
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
21 Dec 22
@FourWalls I am like that. I have a Hindi song for all situations
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@FourWalls (86812)
• United States
21 Dec 22
@arunima25 — that’s what makes music “the universal language.” It speaks to everyone, somehow!
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@FourWalls (86812)
• United States
21 Dec 22
Hooray for your dad! Somewhere I have a photo of Wilma Lee and me together.
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@FourWalls (86812)
• United States
20 Dec 22
I absolutely cannot believe that!!!!!! 
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@FourWalls (86812)
• United States
21 Dec 22
Relax, today’s song isn’t country. You won’t know it, but it doesn’t come with a warning.
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