I love the music to this one. I can still hear it when I was growing up. It would make you come into the room to watch it. All the westerns had great openings. My kids love Good Bad and the Ugly and movies like that, but I never introduced them them to these. Maybe now that everythings on video I can. Glad to see there are many other followers like me.
I miss westerns, especially the big ones like High Chaparral, The Big Valley, The Virginian, and of course Bonanza and Gunsmoke. Right now I would even settle for a Kung Fu, Alias Smith and Jones or The Guns of Will Sonnett. And sorry, Deadwood and Hell on Wheels...pfffft.
I am only 36 but used to love this, along with rawhide bonanza cough **little house on the priaire** cough and even the waltons when they showed it on TV.
Those were real heroes to look up to, not like the crap there is today.
This was the last of the real Western TV shows..and the best and i just turned 50..looks like a common age. Too bad the youg generations don't have a feel for this kind of show.
Mondays, BBC2, 8 o'clock was the time I remember this programme was aired in the UK in the late 60's/early 70's.. Such great characters for a 8 year old kid to watch and copy.
The progressive rock band Yes; used the High Chaparral theme as inspiration for their song ‘Yours Is No Disgrace’ from ‘The Yes Album’ in 1970, according to drummer Bill Bruford…
hi kevin casey in the 60s a school friend of mine used to always talk about this programme havnt heard or seen him for over 35 years since we said goodbye at owen brien long ago i hope i hear from him again pb manchester.
This series blended history and fiction together. The perfect example was the episode of the Buffalo Soldiers, the 10th Black Calvary Unit. They showed the courage and valor of this courageous group. This is what the show so rewarding, not to mention that the beautiful Linda Crystal was easy on the show, and she made the sow worth watching.
Brings back good memories. This was one of my favorites when I was a kid. I always thought Buck was pretty cool and he was my favorite character. I especially liked the episode where they went back in time to where Buck was a Confederate soldier and John was a yankee lawman.
This tune makes me think of my granddad. He used to watch this. He got hit with a stroke and saw out the rest of his days in a chair, go out and live your lives as fully as you can. Be strong don't let life take you.
@Rick123691. That was a very touching comment and I very much share your comments about your Father as mine was similar in that respect too. Strange how these TV series from the 70s and early 80s pull us back into another world. I wonder what the kids of today will remember in 30 or 40 years time? At least no one can take our fond memories away...
In the 1970s and early 80s this was always shown on Sunday afternoons on BBC TV, just after the 1pm news. if it wasn't on, then Bonanza would be shown instead! Memories of my lost youth.
TV has devolved to where every other new show is a goddamned spinoff of an earlier show..think CSI, NCIS, LAW and Order..and then the so-called reality shows where everything is scripted like a bad political ad...I want TV shows that are original, have care and craftsmanship such that even the theme music is remembered 50 years from now...
I wonder if "Telstar"composer Joe Meek had not committed murder/suicide in 1967 he would have sued David Rose for plagiarism -- the High Chaparral theme is pretty much his song.
I used to beg my Dad to to let me stay up late and watch this, he loved westerns and had a soft heart. He almost always let me :-) he knew I loved westerns too ! These shows will never die, their memories and themes will live on forever in our hearts and minds. I miss you Dad !
Maybe Westerns were PC incorrect - but they were a damned sight more enjoyable than some of the dross we have to watch now. Funny how I can still remember most of the themes,
Bugs Bunny cartoons are now being edited for violent content because we don't want our children who are being shown at school how to apply condoms and watching in-your-face TV reality shows to be offended by old fashioned harmless humor while their openly gay parents have foursomes in their presence.
They showed this around 10 in the morning when I was a kid, and by that time I was at school. Sometimes, though, I'd skip class just so I got to watch this awesome series. XD
This was a great show. I remember the original actor who played Blue Boy died in an accident involving a garbage disposal of all things and they had to replace him.
I loved watching the HC real cowboy pictures, good actors, we had a color TV set
either the picture was to red or to green we could never adjust the picture to make it look just right. B&W was the best. I so enjoyed the cowboy picture of that era. Wish they could come back.
kenfig- yes of course you are right but i liked Star Trek a bit more than this, so my memory is a little obscured.P.S i am 45 so maybe you are a little bit older than me.Respect to you as a fan of a great TV program.
My mum and dad had a black and white telly and I remember how blown away I was by the vivid colours of the opening titles when I saw it on my married sisters colour TV. I used to go to her house on a Sunday just to watch this. My friend was madly in love with Manolito, another friend liked Blue, but I'm strange and I liked Uncle Buck, the Cameron Mitchell character.
My mum and dad had a black and white telly and I remember how blown away I was by the vivid colours of the opening titles when I saw it on my married sisters colour TV. I used to go to her house on a Sunday just to watch this. My friend was madly in love with Manilito, another friend liked Blue, but I'm strange and I liked Uncle Buck, the Cameron Mitchell character.
@SgtPecker Funny now how we can remember it as if we had watched it first in colour when we hadnt ; i know thats how i remember old shows from the late 60s ; i forget they were all in B & W on our tele ! I had the same experience in about 1971 when i went to a friends house after school and they had a colour, it was amazing ! Most if you remember used to have the colour turned up too much then , Lol ; made it look really garish and trippy !
@kenfig Hi kenfig. Oh the good old days of black and white TV and having to get up and cross the room to change the channel and standing in the corner waggling the aerial about to get a better picture, they just don't know they're born today (LOL). I wanted a colour TV so bad (mum & dad couldn't afford one) that I got fixated about it and started looking into people's houses from the school bus to see if they had a colour TV. I got quite a buzz when I spotted one - sad really!
@SgtPecker Ha ha,remember on the back of the tv set, 'Vertical Hold' & 'Horizontal Hold' knobs ? which,depending on how much you adjusted them, would increase or decrease the speed of which the unwanted striped lines would whizz up and down the screen instead of the picture,the return of which was the main objective of the exercise !, Lol .Our first colour set was rented, not owned, in 1974 for the World Cup football and so we kept it then,but i saw colour repeats of The Monkees in about 1971 !
@jwillis5039 ill turn 51 in a couple of month and his was also my favorite western in late 1960. Here in sweden it was in black and white we had no color until a couple of years later. After the show ended late in the evening I remember I was so excited I could not sleep, I put on my holster and the Apache Indians where everywhere in my room
@jwillis5039 Except for the turning 51 part, I've said that same thing a lot over the years. I can only say 'turning 50', later this month, but I'm catching up!
Es la mejor serie de toda la historia de la televisiòn. muchas gracias por publicarla. y espero que las cadenas televisivas la retrasmitan de nueva cuenta
Wow,Leif Erickson lived a long time,He and his Viking buds found America back around 1000 and then he lived long enough to star in the High Chaparral around 1965 !
@britecho Also the Magnificent Seven, notice that they're not just pulling out the banjo and playing a waltz time diddy. This is supposed to sound like grand stuff.
No western anyone would want to watch would be made today. Our "betters" are busy re-writing history - revisionism canceling Euro-american history and achievement.
@Zebred2001 Nobody's 'canceling' Euro-american history. It's just giving others a chance to shine. Can't other people be 'first among equals' or is that reserved for euro ancestry? Please point out to me the fine print that GUARANTEES Euro-american hegemony until the end of time? Nothing lasts forever. That's the problem when you have folks with an over-developed intellect - you can send people to the moon yet you see ghosts and goblins behind every sun-dappled blade of grass.
@Blurgle3 Don't worry. History has a way of repeating itself. The pendulum swings from one extreme to another. Reading your comment I can see you are a juvenile product of the big city big brother brainwash society. That world actually did exist not so long ago. Self reliance is still a virture in rural America, doing things the right way aren't lies. But it seems you are young enought to be alive when the pendelum of history and public oppinions swings the other way.
@LadyMask01 "Big Brother"?? Let's see now, that to me would be... Patriot Act, right? Homeland Security??? Yep, that what it is. That fact that you make masks tells me you enjoy hiding behind them as well. I suppose you make masks out of teabags as well, do you...? ;)
One of the best tv themes ever - sprawling, brawling, pungent, sweeping, the thundering drums underscoring the primal urges pitting man against the harsh land, other humans, and himself.
@chapelierfoudre Thank you. It helps that this is a crackerjack recording. I have heard other samples of the opening theme where the drums were muted or timid and leaching the heft and brawn from the arrangement. Cheers.
Because Westerns are now "political incorrect" . it shows men with guns believing in their freedom, shows women in distress and not in charge. Men are not homosexual , don't wear pink shirts. western tell about sel reliance, standing up for whats right,,,all this is wrong now. It won't fit in the brainwash scheme of Big Brother
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Its true there were no Niggers but some Fine ass espnolies ! LOL ! I love big John who was banging Victoria ! Blue boy that was being taught to be a Man . Uncle Buck with his Ho Ways that let Blue boy see a different side from Dad !
@Claretcross Victoria's father was played by frank silvera a black man. her brother manlo was played by henry darrow a a hispanic from new yor. victoria aka linda crystal was from Brazil.this was one of tv's most multicultal casts in tv history. sorta like America.
You hit the nail on the head there. I was very young when I watched HC in Ireland back in the seventies. We only had one television channel back then and there was a lot more interesting shows on that one channel than the drivel thats on the 1000 channels we have now. Even if they decided to make a good western now I don't think they could round up any decent actors to play the parts as they would be afraid of getting their clean clothes dirty.
@cattlewrangler you said everything I totally feel about Present Day TV, all these channels and not a decent program on them. Thankfully like you I saw the best of them in the 60 & 70 on RTE
@cattlewrangler I,M FROM NORTHERN IRELAND, AND I REMEMBER WATCHING HC WHEN I WAS ABOUT 7,8 OR SO, OHHHHHHH HAPPY DAYS. YOUR SO RIGHT , SO MUCH CRAP ON MODERN T.V
You are mistaken. with the gender roles reversed and women now kicking the snot out of snivelling weak men they would make excellent cowboy actors. Just being sarcastic.
I agree with you. Even the western movies from the 60's like The Good, Bad and the Republicans would never be replicated.
@cattlewrangler Even here in Canada, there's just too much drivel on the air nowadays - many channels with all style, but no substance. Whatever happened to quality television? Most people on TV nowadays look too perfect, there's far too much so-called reality TV, and fluff is often passed for real information. Even the so-called worst shows on TV (My Mother the Car, for example) from that era were far better than most of the stuff airing today.
@cattlewrangler That wouldn't surprise me one bit. The airwaves are just saturated with them, and the novelty of the genre (remember Survivor and Big Brother in their early days?) has, as the cliche goes, worn off. I hope the industry goes full circle and starts airing quality again - it doesn't have to be realistic, intellectual or high-brow, but something original, entertaining and, I hope, memorable.
@LadyMask01 In other words, it shows life as it never was. A wildly unrealistic lie meant only to make conservatives feel superior to the rest of the world.
Lies are lies, and your world has never existed. Deal with it, and stop expecting the world to furnish you with nothing but comforting, filthy, hate-mongering lies.
@Blurgle3 Don't worry. History has a way of repeating itself. The pendulum swings from one extreme to another. Reading your comment I can see you are a juvenile product of the big city big brother brainwash society. That world actually did exist not so long ago. Self reliance is still a virture in rural America, doing things the right way aren't lies. But it seems you are young enought to be alive when the pendelum of history and public oppinions swings the other way.
,,this also terribly offends the muslims or Europe because it represents white imperialism and want the old American shows canceled, isn't that something ?
I enjoyed this western as a kid. Great characters, great settings. Apaches were not just two-dimensional bloodthirsty characters. I would rank this along with Bonanza, Gunsmoke and Big Valley as some of the best western tv of the sixties.
This was the best Western series on TV ever. It had real human characters and made them more believable. I loved it and the music still stirs something inside me.
Thank you to the producers, actors, script writers, and and talented people who worked on the series.
I was also frightened of Leif's astonishingly blue eyes, but the theme tune is so good I still remember the show even if I have recollection of any particular show!
If Carlsberg wrote TV theme tunes then probably....
Habe diese Titelmelodie nach Jahrzehnten zum 1. Mal hier im Internet wieder gehört.Immer noch faszinierend!War damals als Kind ein wenig in Manolito verschossen...
they have a reunion of the surviving cast and crew in tucson in october. i will be there. for details check out the high chapparal website. my all time favorite tv western
Does anyone know where to get hold of this series?
AnnaLarssson 10 hours ago
I love the music to this one. I can still hear it when I was growing up. It would make you come into the room to watch it. All the westerns had great openings. My kids love Good Bad and the Ugly and movies like that, but I never introduced them them to these. Maybe now that everythings on video I can. Glad to see there are many other followers like me.
Tigerbai1 6 days ago
I miss westerns, especially the big ones like High Chaparral, The Big Valley, The Virginian, and of course Bonanza and Gunsmoke. Right now I would even settle for a Kung Fu, Alias Smith and Jones or The Guns of Will Sonnett. And sorry, Deadwood and Hell on Wheels...pfffft.
Gnillob802 4 weeks ago
Why did that old man marry that moserable moaning old spic of a Victoria?
BRUTUALTRUTH 1 month ago
shows of this calibre should be back on tv , why not ? they are class .
Jazzawray 1 month ago
39 seconds of sheer class.
Kelly14UK 1 month ago
I am only 36 but used to love this, along with rawhide bonanza cough **little house on the priaire** cough and even the waltons when they showed it on TV.
Those were real heroes to look up to, not like the crap there is today.
whitewater0034 2 months ago
Leuke serie kwam ook door Manilito waar ik zo gek op was.
marijke52 2 months ago in playlist Meer video's van crazymonkey1958
This was the last of the real Western TV shows..and the best and i just turned 50..looks like a common age. Too bad the youg generations don't have a feel for this kind of show.
bentrain46 3 months ago
Mondays, BBC2, 8 o'clock was the time I remember this programme was aired in the UK in the late 60's/early 70's.. Such great characters for a 8 year old kid to watch and copy.
MrBobby698 4 months ago
Must have been one of the most powerful TV themes from my childhood. Loved the show too!
VinnyMonster1 4 months ago
I think whoever wrote this theme must have got some inspiration from Joe Meek's song "Telstar".
vikingraider1 4 months ago 2
The progressive rock band Yes; used the High Chaparral theme as inspiration for their song ‘Yours Is No Disgrace’ from ‘The Yes Album’ in 1970, according to drummer Bill Bruford…
DrJetty 5 months ago
hi kevin casey in the 60s a school friend of mine used to always talk about this programme havnt heard or seen him for over 35 years since we said goodbye at owen brien long ago i hope i hear from him again pb manchester.
castlebar67 5 months ago
This series blended history and fiction together. The perfect example was the episode of the Buffalo Soldiers, the 10th Black Calvary Unit. They showed the courage and valor of this courageous group. This is what the show so rewarding, not to mention that the beautiful Linda Crystal was easy on the show, and she made the sow worth watching.
RodneyIsCougerMan 5 months ago
Brings back good memories. This was one of my favorites when I was a kid. I always thought Buck was pretty cool and he was my favorite character. I especially liked the episode where they went back in time to where Buck was a Confederate soldier and John was a yankee lawman.
ridgerunner721601 6 months ago
Hey pal, i'm in the group that watched it all the time in the 60"s. Great series/ Manuelito was my favorite and Linda Crystal was hot.
joaquinmurrieta1850 6 months ago
This tune makes me think of my granddad. He used to watch this. He got hit with a stroke and saw out the rest of his days in a chair, go out and live your lives as fully as you can. Be strong don't let life take you.
boudica75 7 months ago
@Rick123691. That was a very touching comment and I very much share your comments about your Father as mine was similar in that respect too. Strange how these TV series from the 70s and early 80s pull us back into another world. I wonder what the kids of today will remember in 30 or 40 years time? At least no one can take our fond memories away...
platinumlook 7 months ago
@platinumlook i agree with you a 100%
Sandiforty 7 months ago
the wife in this series was sooo hot---especially for a teenage boy.
BeLogicalWillU 8 months ago
I think we should all find a way to go back in time and leave this bad tv land.
49ldavis 8 months ago
In the 1970s and early 80s this was always shown on Sunday afternoons on BBC TV, just after the 1pm news. if it wasn't on, then Bonanza would be shown instead! Memories of my lost youth.
marcusantonius90 8 months ago
you should make this a ring tone!!!
love2rumba1 8 months ago
TV has devolved to where every other new show is a goddamned spinoff of an earlier show..think CSI, NCIS, LAW and Order..and then the so-called reality shows where everything is scripted like a bad political ad...I want TV shows that are original, have care and craftsmanship such that even the theme music is remembered 50 years from now...
love2rumba1 8 months ago
Crazymonkey1958, you did a good job.
love2rumba1 8 months ago
i just hear this song an d want get on a horse and RIDE!!!! all day long.
TheRatoncito69 9 months ago
One of my favorite shows and tv theme songs! Man, I hate all this junk they have now.
wvgitpicker 9 months ago
I wonder if "Telstar"composer Joe Meek had not committed murder/suicide in 1967 he would have sued David Rose for plagiarism -- the High Chaparral theme is pretty much his song.
funboy7979 9 months ago
Hairs standing on the back of my neck, listening to the theme, brings back memories.
machree01 9 months ago
This was my Favorite western series
KevinJKtheman 10 months ago
That intro's too short. Too good.
Kelly14UK 10 months ago
Good God - how old was Leif Ericsson then- this had to be, what, late 60s early 70s?
richintalent 11 months ago
Go see the Cohen Brothers' True Grit. Good old fashioned western.!
rohansrider 11 months ago
Every time I see the name "Cameron Mitchell" I think...TOOLBOX MURDERS.
SoEightiesItHurts 11 months ago
I used to beg my Dad to to let me stay up late and watch this, he loved westerns and had a soft heart. He almost always let me :-) he knew I loved westerns too ! These shows will never die, their memories and themes will live on forever in our hearts and minds. I miss you Dad !
Rick123691 11 months ago 33
@Rick123691 My old man was a Bowery Boys fan...Ditto on the miss you dad!
Kharkovkid 11 months ago
@Rick123691 amen brother i did the same thing
dizzypilots1 7 months ago
I've only just noticed that this theme tune is ripped off from Joe Meek's Telstar. He should have sued, if he wasn't dead at the time that is!
StigOHarrison 11 months ago
@StigOHarrison Licensed my friend, licensed....!
HardWarUK 11 months ago
@StigOHarrison Joe Meek copy his "telstar" from "La Marche d'Austerlitz" by Jean Ledrut, from the 1960 film Austerlitz
JakimBoorVuelve 11 months ago
Men who were not homesexual? Didn't they go out of fashion like polyester?
arthur131313 11 months ago
Maybe Westerns were PC incorrect - but they were a damned sight more enjoyable than some of the dross we have to watch now. Funny how I can still remember most of the themes,
rohansrider 1 year ago 2
@rohansrider how true you are, i,m 46 and can remember all the tunes of the t.v shows i enjoyed in the 70,s in northern ireland.
BLACKSHACK16 11 months ago
I used to watch this when I was a kid and my sister had a 33LP vinyl record High Chaparral with music on it from the show
mycatwilatackyou 1 year ago
mmm smell the sunday roast be back from football soon mum honest
vania1013 1 year ago 2
i meant to read that but was not sure now i am.
MyLalinea 1 year ago
I REMEMBER HIGH CHAPARRAL.....I WAS WATCHING THIS WHEN I WAS 10 YEARS OLD AT 1975.....IN GREECE....O MY GOD.....
MrHeaven3 1 year ago
Bugs Bunny cartoons are now being edited for violent content because we don't want our children who are being shown at school how to apply condoms and watching in-your-face TV reality shows to be offended by old fashioned harmless humor while their openly gay parents have foursomes in their presence.
S0lidState 1 year ago
what ever happende to leif erickson? died he?
MyLalinea 1 year ago
@MyLalinea, he died in 1986.
vividwatch47 1 year ago
the apach's would make a wart on the commanch's ass.horse soldiers.
dizzypilots1 1 year ago
Telstar ?!
24MadHatters 1 year ago
They showed this around 10 in the morning when I was a kid, and by that time I was at school. Sometimes, though, I'd skip class just so I got to watch this awesome series. XD
DerrickCole 1 year ago
This was a great show. I remember the original actor who played Blue Boy died in an accident involving a garbage disposal of all things and they had to replace him.
dancinkindofguy 1 year ago
The High Chapparal was on of my favourite shows as a kid. . They just can't make them like they used, so much crap on tv now
GarytheAxe 1 year ago
The theme pretty much rips off Telstar's intro. Everybody borrows from everybody =o)
TheTruthRocks 1 year ago
manolito screwed all wives in the town !!
FSW2000 1 year ago
I loved watching the HC real cowboy pictures, good actors, we had a color TV set
either the picture was to red or to green we could never adjust the picture to make it look just right. B&W was the best. I so enjoyed the cowboy picture of that era. Wish they could come back.
qtip124bm 1 year ago
This was my favorite show as a little girl, when it originally aired.. Wish it would come out on dvd..sheesh
krynnkeep 1 year ago
Wow a TV show from the days when TV shows were REAL TV shows.
vapourmile 1 year ago
Manly music!!
xmfcnrx 1 year ago
A real proper tv show, not like the CRAP of today
christianbeardall 1 year ago
kenfig- yes of course you are right but i liked Star Trek a bit more than this, so my memory is a little obscured.P.S i am 45 so maybe you are a little bit older than me.Respect to you as a fan of a great TV program.
mercian7 1 year ago
trippy titles...yeah blue left in season 3 over money/billing dispute.
MrCrispian 1 year ago
Takes me right back to Sunday afternoons in the 70's. Much better than Bonanza! God, I feel old!!
Apophisguard 1 year ago
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My mum and dad had a black and white telly and I remember how blown away I was by the vivid colours of the opening titles when I saw it on my married sisters colour TV. I used to go to her house on a Sunday just to watch this. My friend was madly in love with Manolito, another friend liked Blue, but I'm strange and I liked Uncle Buck, the Cameron Mitchell character.
SgtPecker 1 year ago
My mum and dad had a black and white telly and I remember how blown away I was by the vivid colours of the opening titles when I saw it on my married sisters colour TV. I used to go to her house on a Sunday just to watch this. My friend was madly in love with Manilito, another friend liked Blue, but I'm strange and I liked Uncle Buck, the Cameron Mitchell character.
SgtPecker 1 year ago
@SgtPecker Funny now how we can remember it as if we had watched it first in colour when we hadnt ; i know thats how i remember old shows from the late 60s ; i forget they were all in B & W on our tele ! I had the same experience in about 1971 when i went to a friends house after school and they had a colour, it was amazing ! Most if you remember used to have the colour turned up too much then , Lol ; made it look really garish and trippy !
kenfig 1 year ago
@kenfig Hi kenfig. Oh the good old days of black and white TV and having to get up and cross the room to change the channel and standing in the corner waggling the aerial about to get a better picture, they just don't know they're born today (LOL). I wanted a colour TV so bad (mum & dad couldn't afford one) that I got fixated about it and started looking into people's houses from the school bus to see if they had a colour TV. I got quite a buzz when I spotted one - sad really!
SgtPecker 1 year ago
@SgtPecker Ha ha,remember on the back of the tv set, 'Vertical Hold' & 'Horizontal Hold' knobs ? which,depending on how much you adjusted them, would increase or decrease the speed of which the unwanted striped lines would whizz up and down the screen instead of the picture,the return of which was the main objective of the exercise !, Lol .Our first colour set was rented, not owned, in 1974 for the World Cup football and so we kept it then,but i saw colour repeats of The Monkees in about 1971 !
kenfig 1 year ago
Oh my, what memories this brings and tears from my childhood. manolito was my favourite too.
It used to be on before Star Trek on the BBC in the mid 70s when I was about...
very young!
mercian7 1 year ago
@mercian7 Yeah but those were repeats ; i remember this on as early as about 1967 and it had ended by about 1970 / 71 originally
kenfig 1 year ago
great to be able to see this old film again.. grew up watching it in black and white..
atutahiwahanga 1 year ago
monolito was my hero. what memories hearing this tune again
victoria was so pretty
i miss that show v much
newall7 1 year ago
ill turn 51 tomorrow and this was my favorite western theme from the 1960s,i wish they would show it on tv land and give gunsmoke and bonanza a rest.
jwillis5039 1 year ago 10
@jwillis5039 ill turn 51 in a couple of month and his was also my favorite western in late 1960. Here in sweden it was in black and white we had no color until a couple of years later. After the show ended late in the evening I remember I was so excited I could not sleep, I put on my holster and the Apache Indians where everywhere in my room
matforsbon 8 months ago 3
@jwillis5039 amen brother!
dizzypilots1 6 months ago
@jwillis5039 Except for the turning 51 part, I've said that same thing a lot over the years. I can only say 'turning 50', later this month, but I'm catching up!
PtolemyJones 6 months ago
brings a tear to my eye. Sitting on the sofa with my Grandad late 1970's. bring me some kleenex!
dazzyboy74 1 year ago
i remember see this series in my childhood age, damn a lot of happy fellings and emotions bring it back, thanks for posting mate
sergio007x 1 year ago
AWESOME
parker00pen 1 year ago 2
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Es la mejor serie de toda la historia de la televisiòn. muchas gracias por publicarla. y espero que las cadenas televisivas la retrasmitan de nueva cuenta
parker00pen 1 year ago
High Chaparral was my favorite Western series. Loved the opening musical score.
mojaveman1 1 year ago
Blue boy was a mardarse.
toph41 1 year ago
@toph41 Maybe so,but he sure was pretty.Man,what a pair of eyes that boy had.D***!!!
crowleysridgegirl 1 year ago
The credits and theme song were great for this show, but the show itself sucked... too bad
TracyAndersonFoxhunt 1 year ago
Wow,Leif Erickson lived a long time,He and his Viking buds found America back around 1000 and then he lived long enough to star in the High Chaparral around 1965 !
walleyrt69 1 year ago
@walleyrt69 And he aged well too!!!!! Phil
philchen63 1 year ago
Oh, I remember "Blue" and his stunning eyes! LOL....
guzzpuzz 1 year ago
You know, this tune is very similar to Telstar, by The Tornadoes. Do a comparison and see what you think.
britecho 1 year ago
@britecho Also the Magnificent Seven, notice that they're not just pulling out the banjo and playing a waltz time diddy. This is supposed to sound like grand stuff.
powergirl901 1 year ago
I havent heard that tune since I was about eight or nine years old on a Monday evening with school in the morning.
nicedog1 1 year ago
beautiful memories
emotional stuff, i loved this show and i always thought monolito was brill
what a fab cast
newall7 1 year ago
No western anyone would want to watch would be made today. Our "betters" are busy re-writing history - revisionism canceling Euro-american history and achievement.
Zebred2001 1 year ago
@Zebred2001 Nobody's 'canceling' Euro-american history. It's just giving others a chance to shine. Can't other people be 'first among equals' or is that reserved for euro ancestry? Please point out to me the fine print that GUARANTEES Euro-american hegemony until the end of time? Nothing lasts forever. That's the problem when you have folks with an over-developed intellect - you can send people to the moon yet you see ghosts and goblins behind every sun-dappled blade of grass.
hork111 1 year ago
This is the best version on YT,also.
crowleysridgegirl 1 year ago
One of the best songs ever!!!
flamen493 1 year ago
buck was my man but loved everyone!
grannydyess 1 year ago
One of the greatest western themes - gives me SHIVERS !
omegamann71 1 year ago 2
@omegamann71 Really powerful tune!
VinnyMonster1 1 year ago
@VinnyMonster1 I' ll go along with that ... best wishes !
omegamann71 1 year ago
dam! what a flashback, thanks for uploading mate
sergio007x 1 year ago
@Blurgle3 Don't worry. History has a way of repeating itself. The pendulum swings from one extreme to another. Reading your comment I can see you are a juvenile product of the big city big brother brainwash society. That world actually did exist not so long ago. Self reliance is still a virture in rural America, doing things the right way aren't lies. But it seems you are young enought to be alive when the pendelum of history and public oppinions swings the other way.
LadyMask01 1 year ago
@LadyMask01 "Big Brother"?? Let's see now, that to me would be... Patriot Act, right? Homeland Security??? Yep, that what it is. That fact that you make masks tells me you enjoy hiding behind them as well. I suppose you make masks out of teabags as well, do you...? ;)
robvig60 11 months ago
I loved the high Chapparal. programmes today just aren't the same.
bananasplitsable 1 year ago
one of the best opening themes
SounzNice 1 year ago 2
@SounzNice
Powerful tune!
VinnyMonster1 1 year ago
Yup the theme must have been ripped off from the Voyagers who recorded their instrumental hit Telstar in 1962, five years before this.
RayCathode1 1 year ago
I used to love this programme. I loved it when Victoria and Manolito had a row in Spanish!
bananasplitsable 1 year ago 2
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what they didn't show us is that Blue Boy was banging Victoria every day
RifledBarrel 1 year ago
classic used to watch it all the time when i was a kid great tune
roger131067 1 year ago
Just spent two weeks in southern Peru,South America and this was the only good thing on TV,even in spanish :o
hamtrak 1 year ago
I just love that!!
xmfcnrx 2 years ago
top classe le grand chaparral
ostrogho 2 years ago
One of the best tv themes ever - sprawling, brawling, pungent, sweeping, the thundering drums underscoring the primal urges pitting man against the harsh land, other humans, and himself.
hork111 2 years ago 2
@hork111 Great and sharp analysis of a great theme music ! Bravo !
chapelierfoudre 1 year ago
@chapelierfoudre Thank you. It helps that this is a crackerjack recording. I have heard other samples of the opening theme where the drums were muted or timid and leaching the heft and brawn from the arrangement. Cheers.
hork111 1 year ago
I wonder why I havent ever seenn any reruns
over the years ? This was my favorite when I was a kid .
Claretcross 2 years ago
if you ever get the chance go to old tucson film studios you can go horseriding at the high chaparall, it is amazing
garrychelsea 1 year ago
Any idea why there havent been any reruns ?
Claretcross 1 year ago
@Claretcross i wonder if its because westerns havent been big box office for a few years, its sad because the episodes really are timeless classics
garrychelsea 1 year ago
I saw bonanza, Virginian reruns for years but dont remember any High chapparal. It probably wasnt politically correct !
Claretcross 1 year ago
Because Westerns are now "political incorrect" . it shows men with guns believing in their freedom, shows women in distress and not in charge. Men are not homosexual , don't wear pink shirts. western tell about sel reliance, standing up for whats right,,,all this is wrong now. It won't fit in the brainwash scheme of Big Brother
LadyMask01 1 year ago 12
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Its true there were no Niggers but some Fine ass espnolies ! LOL ! I love big John who was banging Victoria ! Blue boy that was being taught to be a Man . Uncle Buck with his Ho Ways that let Blue boy see a different side from Dad !
Claretcross 1 year ago
@Claretcross Victoria's father was played by frank silvera a black man. her brother manlo was played by henry darrow a a hispanic from new yor. victoria aka linda crystal was from Brazil.this was one of tv's most multicultal casts in tv history. sorta like America.
fred5399 1 year ago
You hit the nail on the head there. I was very young when I watched HC in Ireland back in the seventies. We only had one television channel back then and there was a lot more interesting shows on that one channel than the drivel thats on the 1000 channels we have now. Even if they decided to make a good western now I don't think they could round up any decent actors to play the parts as they would be afraid of getting their clean clothes dirty.
cattlewrangler 1 year ago 28
@cattlewrangler you said everything I totally feel about Present Day TV, all these channels and not a decent program on them. Thankfully like you I saw the best of them in the 60 & 70 on RTE
mickeyh1961 1 year ago
@cattlewrangler I,M FROM NORTHERN IRELAND, AND I REMEMBER WATCHING HC WHEN I WAS ABOUT 7,8 OR SO, OHHHHHHH HAPPY DAYS
BLACKSHACK16 1 year ago
@cattlewrangler I,M FROM NORTHERN IRELAND, AND I REMEMBER WATCHING HC WHEN I WAS ABOUT 7,8 OR SO, OHHHHHHH HAPPY DAYS. YOUR SO RIGHT , SO MUCH CRAP ON MODERN T.V
BLACKSHACK16 1 year ago
@cattlewrangler
You are mistaken. with the gender roles reversed and women now kicking the snot out of snivelling weak men they would make excellent cowboy actors. Just being sarcastic.
I agree with you. Even the western movies from the 60's like The Good, Bad and the Republicans would never be replicated.
VisionarysDomain 1 year ago
@cattlewrangler Even here in Canada, there's just too much drivel on the air nowadays - many channels with all style, but no substance. Whatever happened to quality television? Most people on TV nowadays look too perfect, there's far too much so-called reality TV, and fluff is often passed for real information. Even the so-called worst shows on TV (My Mother the Car, for example) from that era were far better than most of the stuff airing today.
markojameow 1 year ago
@markojameow In the not too distant future I think audiences will get fed up with reality tv.
cattlewrangler 1 year ago
@cattlewrangler That wouldn't surprise me one bit. The airwaves are just saturated with them, and the novelty of the genre (remember Survivor and Big Brother in their early days?) has, as the cliche goes, worn off. I hope the industry goes full circle and starts airing quality again - it doesn't have to be realistic, intellectual or high-brow, but something original, entertaining and, I hope, memorable.
markojameow 1 year ago
@cattlewrangler don't forget, woman wore dresses back in those days, and man was man and a woman was a woman
midnightcaller200 1 year ago
@cattlewrangler ....you hit the nail on the head.....Thank you........Respectively.......Becky
TheBec56 11 months ago
@cattlewrangler You are dead right.
kazantzakis01 10 months ago
@LadyMask01 In other words, it shows life as it never was. A wildly unrealistic lie meant only to make conservatives feel superior to the rest of the world.
Lies are lies, and your world has never existed. Deal with it, and stop expecting the world to furnish you with nothing but comforting, filthy, hate-mongering lies.
Blurgle3 1 year ago
@Blurgle3 Don't worry. History has a way of repeating itself. The pendulum swings from one extreme to another. Reading your comment I can see you are a juvenile product of the big city big brother brainwash society. That world actually did exist not so long ago. Self reliance is still a virture in rural America, doing things the right way aren't lies. But it seems you are young enought to be alive when the pendelum of history and public oppinions swings the other way.
LadyMask01 1 year ago
,,this also terribly offends the muslims or Europe because it represents white imperialism and want the old American shows canceled, isn't that something ?
S0lidState 1 year ago
@LadyMask01 amen compadre!
dizzypilots1 1 year ago
@LadyMask01 man your words describes exactly the sick society we are living in..
matatan69 1 year ago
@LadyMask01 ........Thank You...It is nice to know that real people still exist......You told it like it was and is..... Respectively..Becky
TheBec56 11 months ago
beautiful song!
love04love05 2 years ago
But it sounds a little like they copied "the Magnificent Seven".
toobyu2859 2 years ago
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A W E S O M E
emily555a 2 years ago
@emily555a Fully agree, TOTALLY - A W E S O M E -
jrt2009 10 months ago
One of the best theme tunes ever
geowyn 2 years ago 2
I wish such productions could still be made. Hollywood producers of caliber are missing nowadays.
Yaqidh 2 years ago
I loved this programme. Didn't realise that the actor who played Manolito wasn't really Mexican [Henry Darrow] until years later!!
Osloloser 2 years ago
the,and bonanza,and rauchende colt the best!!westseries......
wodka270 2 years ago
I enjoyed this western as a kid. Great characters, great settings. Apaches were not just two-dimensional bloodthirsty characters. I would rank this along with Bonanza, Gunsmoke and Big Valley as some of the best western tv of the sixties.
HerrEllsworth 2 years ago
manolito was my heroe !!!
piadinaconmortadella 2 years ago
theres no e in hero. blame drink
999widgey 2 years ago
This was the best Western series on TV ever. It had real human characters and made them more believable. I loved it and the music still stirs something inside me.
Thank you to the producers, actors, script writers, and and talented people who worked on the series.
Kiwifrank 2 years ago 2
it was great they sold buck cannon bullet arm straps in the uk. what fools we must have looked wearing them at ten years old!
999widgey 2 years ago
d+ espetacular,eu amo esse seriado.parabens
VanderleiLima1 2 years ago
Fantástico esse seriado!
brazsouza 2 years ago
Primetime bbc2 at the time
cu16855 2 years ago
What the hell's a "chaparral" anyway? lol
TheGringoLoco 2 years ago
High desert scrub brush
adbartels 2 years ago
The Name Of The Ranch Was "The High Chaparral"
JudyLiza123 2 years ago
great program, wonder what happened to victoria big johns wife
wonforall 2 years ago
i liked manolito in this series
VISSIONPLUS 2 years ago 9
Classic days of watching this and Bonanza with my Grandad. Great!
dazzyboy74 2 years ago 5
I was also frightened of Leif's astonishingly blue eyes, but the theme tune is so good I still remember the show even if I have recollection of any particular show!
If Carlsberg wrote TV theme tunes then probably....
tdxi124 2 years ago 2
most amazing series ever
NovaCyprus 2 years ago 3
Manolito,Hombre el Mundo
kevlarkid2 2 years ago
Yeah grannydress, we'll be right on that !
jsilence418 2 years ago
I wonder what happened to their two flunky injuns,Sourdough and Saddleblanket????
OldMrMemories 2 years ago
i never liked this show--didn't like leif ericson
melollylolly 2 years ago
awesome
emily555a 2 years ago
great theme + show
1400deadwood 2 years ago 4
Classic!
Ganbareg 2 years ago 2
Habe diese Titelmelodie nach Jahrzehnten zum 1. Mal hier im Internet wieder gehört.Immer noch faszinierend!War damals als Kind ein wenig in Manolito verschossen...
tweetyvogel 2 years ago
this song sounds very near exactly the same as "telstar", by the tornados.. I often wondered if there was a conection.
Mikakk2 2 years ago 2
they have a reunion of the surviving cast and crew in tucson in october. i will be there. for details check out the high chapparal website. my all time favorite tv western
grannydyess 2 years ago
Man I used to watch this with my dad on NBC on Saturday nights after STAR TREK. Loved the show and the theme.
ryoushii 2 years ago
Very memorable theme song and I remember watching this on sunday afternoons, was too young to understand it but i knew it was quality.
Topboy32 2 years ago