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Cowboy Songs Corral
Honoring the B-Western Film Stars,
Singers and Songwriters
from Yesteryear
R.L. Hall (top row in right corner) with The Sons of the Pioneers
(picture provided by Bill McCann)
© PineTree Productions
Contents
DVD: "Peace-Lovin' Blues" and Cowboy Songs Corral Round-Up NEW
Multimedia Book: "Following the Stars" - Music & Memories of Hopalong Cassidy
Hopalong Cassidy Song Series NEW
Are you a fan of early movie serials and B-westerns?
Here are two CD recommended collections with that music...
Cliffhangers: Music From The Classic Republic Serials
Shoot 'Em Ups! Music From The Classic Republic Westerns
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Welcome to the CSC - celebrating vintage B-western film stars and music.
The CSC is mainly to give you some information about B-western singers and songwriters and makes no claim to cover it all. That's too big a herd to round-up!
Scroll down this page for a special multimedia B-western collection on DVD and other news.
Here's hoping you continue to enjoy those fine ol' B-western songs!
-- R. L. Hall, Foreman of the CSC (Cowboy Songs Corral)
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NEW!
Two for One Combo from PineTree Press!
Get your copy of this illustrated multi-media DVD, playable on your computer, inclduing a memoir by songwriter, Roger Lee Hall, about his early years including meeting Hopalong Cassidy and also his favorite singing cowboys.
This multi-media DVD collection has tributes to B-western singers and songwriters, picture galleries, several music albums, and more. It contains over 200 files and is for non-commercial use only and available exclusively from Cowboy Songs Corral.
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- "Peace-Lovin' Blues" - Survival Songs - a frank and honest memoir by songwriter Roger Lee Hall about his early years of struggle using specific songs to help him survive his difficult youth, with a music album of 15 vintage songs, including a few of the author's own songs, including "The Angels Handed Me A Rose (Hoppy's Song for Grace)."
- Cowboy Songs Corral Round-Up - with tributes to popular singing cowboys and songwriters and a music album of B-western songs. The separate files include:
Gene Autry
Roy Rogers
Tex Ritter
James Ellison (Hopalong Cassidy)
Billy Hill, songwriter
Eddie Dean
Ken Darby, songwriter
John Wayne - did he sing in his early westerns?
You get both titles (a memoir and a music collection)
for a reduced price!
This special multi-media DVD (articles, pictures and music)
is available only here at Cowboy Songs Corral.
It is playable on your computer
but not on a separate DVD player or television, except
for the jpeg pictures.
This DVD is available for a limited time only.Order your copy today!
The cost is just $25.00 (a 25% discount for both titles)
by credit card, payable to PineTree Productions,
through safe and secure PayPal.
Free shipping is included.
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After you have placed your order
please mention this DVD and
send your mailing address to:
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"Following the Stars" -
Music & Memories of Hopalong Cassidy
(PineTree Press)
"A nice supplement to the two current HC [Hopalong Cassidy] books
with material not contained in either."
-- Boyd Magers, Western Clippings (July/August 2009)Read about this illustrated multimedia book by Roger Lee Hall with music examples and picture gallery and information about music featured in Hoplaong Cassidy westerns at this link:
Music and Memories of Hopalong Cassidy
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B-western Music News
Hopalong Cassidy, Peggy Lee and Bing Crosby
Order your copy of this enjoyable CD at this link,
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Greatest Western Songs
As reported in the Sep/Oct 2010 issue of Western Clippings, here are the "Greatest Western Songs of All Time" as selected by the Western Writers of America at their annual convention in Knoxville, Tennessee:
1. "Ghost Riders in the Sky"
2. "El Paso"
3. "Cool Water"
4. "Streets of Laredo"
5. "Back in the Saddle Again"
6. "High Noon"
7. "Oh Shenandoah" [a sea chantey, not really a western song]
8. "Tumbling Tumleweeds"
9. "Home on the Range"
10. "Red River Valley"
Do you have any favorite western songs that are not on this Top ten list?
Send in your favorite song titles to the
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Western Newsletter
Are you looking for an informative publication about cowboy films and stars?
Then you should subscribe to Western Clippings, the newsletter edited and published by Boyd Magers, with Donna Magers as Associate Editor.
Boyd has also written several respected books, incluing a great one with many fine illustrations titled...
Gene Autry Westerns:
America's Favorite Cowboy
(Empire Publishing, 2007)
Western Clippings is chock full of interesting articles and news about vintage cowboy films and people. There are also regular columnists, including a music review section by O.J. Sikes.
To order the Gene Autry book or subscribe to the fascinating and fact-filled newsletter, click on this link for Western Clippings
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CD Reviews
THE WESTERNS
Music and Songs From Classic Westerns (2 CDs)
The Silver Screen Cowboy Project - a great collection!
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Greatest Western Film Scores
What are the Greatest Western Films and Scores?
In the October/November 2008 issue of American Cowboy, there were lists of 10 or 20 greatest western movies as selected by film critic Leonard Maltin, the Western Writers of America, academic Paul Hutton, and Jesse Mullins Jr, Editor-in-Chief of American Cowboy.
Well, how about the Best Western Film Scores?
Here is a list of western movies with 10 of the greatest western film scores, as selected by Roger Hall, Foreman of Cowboy Songs Corral:
Ten Great Western Film Scores
(arranged in alphabetical order)
The numbers in brackets are from
the 100 Essential Film Scores of the 20th Century
THE ALAMO -- music by Dimitri Tiomkin [No. 65]
THE BIG COUNTRY -- music by Jerome Moross [No. 21]
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HIGH NOON -- music by Dimitri Tiomkin [ No. 7]
(No. 1 in the WILD WEST magazine's Special Collector's Edition:
100 Greatest Westerns).
HOW THE WEST WAS WON -- music by Alfred Newman & Ken Darby [No. 35]
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN -- music by Elmer Bernstein [No. 15]
ONCE UPON THE TIME IN THE WEST -- music by Ennio Morricone [No. 100]
RED RIVER -- music by Dimitri Tiomkin [No. 45]
RIO BRAVO -- music by Dimitri Tiomkin [No. 53]
THE SEARCHERS -- music by Max Steiner [No. 33]
SHANE -- music by Victor Young [No. 70]
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NEW!
Hopalong Cassidy Song Series
This series written by songwriter, Roger Hall,
and featured in the fan club newsletter, HOPPY TALK.
The first song in the series is: "Hills of Old Wyoming" -
title song from the Hopalong Cassidy film with the same title.
It was included in HOPPY TALK, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Summer 2012)
The second song is "Twilight on the Trail" - the title song
sung by Brad King
with The Jimmy Wakely Trio (Winter 2013)
The third song is "The Funny Old Hills" - made popular by
Bing Crosby in the 1938 film, PARIS HONEYMOON -
sung in TWILIGHT ON THE TRAIL by Brad King with
The Jimmy Wakely Trio
To join the Hopalong Cassidy Fan Club and receive the
HOPPY TALK newsletter with lots of interesting news, write to:Friends of Hopalong Cassidy
6310 Friendship Drive
New Concord, Ohio 43762-9708
A new song with music by Roger Hall and lyrics by Susie Coffman -
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"The Angel Handed Me A Rose"
(Hoppy's Song For Grace) ©
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In Memory of Grace Bradley Boyd
A Tribute to Grace Bradley Boyd (1913-2010)
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Here is very useful sheet music collection...
Cowboy Songs: 62 Classic Saddle Songs
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Book Reviews
Follow Your Stars by Susie Coffman
The Hollywood Book of Death by James Robert Parrish
Hopalong Cassidy: An American Legend by Grace Bradley Boyd
and Michael CochranJingle of the Silver Spurs: The Hopalong Cassidy Radio Program (1950-1952)
by Bernard A. Drew
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You are invited to pick some favorite western unes
in the annual event known as
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A Few Links Worth A Look
The Old Corral -- Chuck Anderson's great website on B-western stars and music
Western Clippings -- online site by Boyd Magers
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