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Honoring
the B-western Stars
and Songwriters
from Yesteryear
RL Hall (top row in right corner) with The Sons of the Pioneers
(picture provided by Bill McCann)
© PineTree Productions
Contents
B-western songs and songwriters on DVD
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.
Scroll down this page for a special multimedia B-western collection and other news.
Here's hoping you continue to enjoy those fine ol' western songs!
-- R L Hall, Foreman of the CSC (Cowboy Songs Corral)
Send your comments to the
NEW!
Multimedia DVD:
"The Angels Handed Me A Rose" -
Favorite B-western songs and songwriters
Get your copy of this multimedia collection, playable on your computer, with 20 B-western songs, including music by Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter, plus rare music highlights from Hopalong Cassidy movies, and a new song by songwriter Roger Lee Hall, "The Angels Handed Me A Rose" (instrumental version).
In addition to this music album of B-western songs, there are also these eight titles in the B-western song series:
"Back in the Saddle" - Gene Autry
"Dust" - Roy Rogers
"Following the Stars" - James Ellison and Hopalong Cassidy
"High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlin')" - Tex Ritter
"The Last Round-up" - Billy Hill, songwriter
"On the Banks of the Sunny San Juan" - Eddie Dean
"River of No Return" - Ken Darby-Lionel Newman, songwriters
"True Grit" - Elmer Bernsetin-Don Black, songwriters
This limited edition multimedia collection with singer and songwriter tributes, image gallery, and music album, is available as a Bonus Feature on a multimedia DVD disc, playable on your computer. This DVD contains no video files but does have lots of good music for enjoyable listening and information about selected B-western singers, songs, and songwriters.Read how to get your copy of this collection at this link:
"Peace-Lovin' Blues" - Songs For Survival
For Hoppy fans there is a new multimedia CD available at this link:
Hopalong Cassidy Music Round-Up
B-western Music News
"Following the Stars" -
Music & Memories of Hopalong Cassidy
(PineTree Press, 3rd edition, 2010)
"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, about music featured
in Hoplaong Cassidy westerns at this link:Music and Memories of Hopalong Cassidy
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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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Web Radio
Do you want to hear some very enjoyable western music on the Internet?
Then go to this link for programs at BostonPete.com,
hosted by that friendly cowpoke, O.J. Sikes.His program is titled: Western Music Time
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Western Music and Films
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 Silver Screen Cowboy Project
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 of the 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]
What western film scores would be on your list?
Send your list of up to 10 western films to:
Favorite Cowboy Songs
For a really fine sheet music collection...
Cowboy Songs: 62 Classic Saddle Songs
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
The Old Corral -- Chuck Anderson's great website on B-western stars
(including music)THE UNFORGIVEN: Five Classic Western Film Scores
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