High Noon - Frankie Lane

[FMS1950]

Tex Ritter's version is THE original & the movie theme,

[sylviajorgentorolaf]

A cast to die for, real star quality, plus the great voice of Frankie Laine

[davidfoxtrot]

Amazing voice and probably the best version of this song

[Dalileadalilei]

Katy Jurado que bonitaaa!!

[aldovernon]

HIGH NOON GREATEST WESTERN OF ALL TIME!!!!!

[rebelrandle]

@aldovernon  Amen

[shawnhegedus1]

rather be a live coward than a dead hero

[fatbowe]

@shawnhegedus1 ...Of course you do...

[Hoopermazing]

Fuck Frankie Lane. He wasn't man enough to sing this song.

[Hoopermazing]

@juv7 Go fuck yourself, cocksucker. What's it to you if I don't like this shitty inferior version of this song. Tex Ritter was the only man who had any business singing it. Frankie Lane sounds like his testicles hadn't descended yet.

[juv7]

@Hoopermazing as i said your a prick now go fuck ur mamma

[Hoopermazing]

@juv7 What does that gibberish mean, you illiterate fucktard? "Ur???" "Your a prick???" You're and your are two different words, you drooling moron. It's no wonder that you can't appreciate the sublimity of Tex Ritter's basso-profondo crooning. You're as dumb as a bag of hammers.

[Canadianeh100]

Frankie Laine's "High Noon" was the first record I ever owned. My brother bought it for me after a difference between us. I was 17. Time has passed. Frankie Laine has gone - my brother has gone - and I'm on borrowed time.

[tourama]

@Canadianeh100 God bless yo,u your brother and Frankie,

[soapycakebear]

Wonderful movie theme written by Dimitri Tiomkin and sung by the great Frankie Laine!

[victorbellodevalle]

The credit of this song should go to Dimitri Tiomkin, what a composer!!!

[patoo1000]

One of of the best songs to come from our out of the west

[karenmelia]

My Dad use to get me and brother sing this every sunday before our lunch, today I play it as his beloved Manchester City play in the FA Cup final Saturday 14th may, In my heart for ever Come on You Blues

[rileyjeffs]

@karenmelia Well done THE BLUES, and good luck from a fellow Frankie Laine fan from Manchester,cheers,, Ernie

[wotsgonon1]

THEY SHOOT HORSES DONT THEY ? FRANKIE WAS A DANCE OFF CHAMP,AN AWFUL WAY TO MAKE A BUCK OR TWO.

[richarddalebailey]

Tasting the sword is literal men. You feel real pain in your teeth. I,ve felt it and I've heard it, and I've read it.

[richarddalebailey]

Agreed. I have been a soldier and fireman and I'll tell you that courage comes in any size or gender. I've seen men shiverring scared but still pressed on without slowing. The decision to act is taken long before the act is required so when the time comes, your thinking is already done, you just move.

[fogologo100]

I'm only brave when I have to be. ...

[madbob5a]

Another briliant voice, can't be matched! By todays standards!

[fatheroflatus]

It's one thing to fight someone whom you know means you harm, quite another to do so because some politician (or his uber-rich handler) tells you that man is your enemy. If you don't trust the system to administer health care, why trust it when it comes to other matters of life and death?

[Sellrain]

As far I know the title song you hear here was actually never used in the film. The films opening score was performed by Tex Ritter!

[MrSkiwicz]

Tex Ritter is second to Frankie Lane on this one. Frankie's rich vocals just overcome anyone else's versions.

[Sellrain]

Tex Ritter is better!

[rebbeccanne]

 A coward dies many deaths but a hero dies but once....That was my captains last words before we went into the tet offensive....

[Hartford1992]

Like this if Red Dwarf brought you here.

[arthur777ist]

sorry, but Tex Ritter is the BEST.

[WildmanBorneo]

Classic love it !

[vetnep1968]

Boy this brings back memorys of my father that has been dead sinds 1990. i was listening this as a kid in the 1970's it brings tears in my eyes and good memory's. THX for posting this

[zaaritha]

Good--but Tex Ritter´s version is also very good!

[pressantos]

Hei gente...avevo 5 anni e due pistole ai fianchi...vedevo il film e poi sparavo tutto il giorno...che bei tempi ! Tutti i cattivi di quà...tutti i buoni di là... e poi NON ERA VERO NIENTE:

[fatoomstcha]

My mum and dad(and me)played this to death when i was a nipper!!!Brings a tear to the eye!!Frankie Laine....Legend!!!

[dearmalika]

I love this film!

[sparklesparkling]

thank you for sharing.... linking~~~connecting..

[shaka1521]

By far and away the BEST version of this song, I just love his voice a real mans voice

[MrJamesacouto]

Why does it need to applied to war like situations? The lesson is to stand tall in the face of adversity. Anyway it's a classic cowboy song enjoy

[pris613]

MrJamesacouto: I agree that this is a great song about courage and doing the right thing. A classic song, a classic movie and actors.

[TheHIT47MAN]

this song taught me to be BIG and fear no PERSON!

[wheelgunjoe]

Its not as much not to fear, but rather to know that there are worse things in life than death, and that if one is a coward he dies many times, where a hero tastes of death but once.

[firebaseslider]

Bravo, It has been a long time since I read or heard this statement. A teacher once said it to me, the brave taste of the sword but once, a coward ties a thousand times. I always remembered this. Carried it in my helmet through 17 months in SE Asia.

[ErnstBecker]

Was it Muy Tok Son, Namo or Sento?

[1905compton]

what year were you at fire-base slider?

[pris613]

firebaseslider: I read your comment about bravery and was happy that you made it back to the US, able to write it on YT. Too many brave men didn't. I wish more people realized how many types of courage there are and how most just go unnoticed by people.

[BlackandTan1950]

@pris613

Thank you. You are right, courage has a thousand faces. Whether you face an enemy in combat, confess your sins to a priest, or live on in the face of cancer you are brave.

[pris613]

@BlackandTan1950 Since you and I are in the same age group and were raised in a non pc world where honor, courage etc were expected to be valued. I feel sorry for those who have no idea of what we are talking about and view us as old fashioned etc as it is a strenght we will all need at sometime in our lives. Hang in there and take good care of yourself.

[mrstevehartman]

@BlackandTan1950 And, cowards die a thousand deaths !

[sociald666]

@firebaseslider

I don't get it.....how do they "taste? the sword? I know they don't mean it literally, but please explain if you'd be so kind. Thanks

[BlackandTan1950]

@sociald666

I believe Shakespere was alluding to the physical, emotional, and psychological experience of facing mortality. To go forth and face the possibility/experience of mortal wounding entails you'll experience it but once. To turn from it entails re-living it with the possibility of shame and self recrimination over and over.

[patoo1000]

@firebaseslider Glad you came home Hero!

[bosnmate820]

@firebaseslider Thanks for your service and welcome home, brother I was a Navy tin can sailor and never got to go. Tonkin Gulf was too hot for me!

[paulostroff99]

wheelgunjoe-There are better alternatives than being a live coward or a dead hero. Life and most situations are normally not a matter of black or white,but several shades of gray. This hero/coward way of thinking promotes most wars.

[wheelgunjoe]

Paul...The truth still remains in the saying, I am not arguing that any hero wishes to die, but rather that he or she understands that the bigger picture sometimes calls for the sacrifice of a courageous human life. I would also dispute that it is often the "good vs. evil" or "Right vs. Wrong" mentality that starts most wars. Hero or coward are often titles earned/given to a smaller more specific group or individual for the deeds the individual or group does or fails to do in the line of duty.

[pris613]

wheelgunnjoe A great statement, unfortunately there does not seem to be too many people who believe in honor anymore. I respect those who do.

[wheelgunjoe]

@pris613 Thanks, I've just always felt that a man should be measured by the way he lives (or in some sad cases dies). A man with honor sees how small he is in the vastness of eternity, and hopes that he can better serve others and change the face of eternity. A man without honor sees only himself, and his heart is empty filled only with selfserving ways.

[pris613]

wheelgunjoe: I agree with the way you think. I suspect that you are the kind of person who , in different situations in life, has stood in the breech in order to help those in need and never realized how many you have touched in some way because you never looked for the credit. We all have to fight some dragons in life, sometimes we lose (I hate that!) but sometimes we do win, even when we don't know it. Honor comes in many forms, too bad it's not pc in our present world.

[ColdStab]

@wheelgunjoe: Quote: Well you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.

Charley Waite - Open Range

[tobyjo57]

@wheelgunjoe

To dye without dignity is to dye without pride

That's what divides a real man from a junior with no meaning in life

We only dye once

Make it mean something for humanity]

[theshadow1932]

OK, sooner or later, you'll get your touccas podiatristly impacted. (Your ass kicked, for those in Rio Linda!) This is the DUMBEST western ever made. To make, back then, one had to be one third lizzard, one third wolverine and one third I dunno WHAT! This whole town full of wusses can't stand up to four ex-cons? PLEEAASSSEEEE!!!!!

And Cooper? He doesn't take his Winchester up into the church steeple and pop Miller and his pals,. when the get off the stage? Yeah, RIGHT!

[fntime]

theshadow, I understand your point completely. You are a coward, and you

look for the 'cowards code' in a movie.

BUT, this was a movie for people who are

heroes or wish to be heroes.

I really understand your point, too bad

for you, you don't. Delusion in the end

my friend, get us all!

[theshadow1932]

Coward, huh? I've got a word for you; DARWIN! Those who do idiotic things like these aren't heroes, they're guys with SERIOUS issues. Either they've got something to "prove" or they're troubled guys who really don't WANT to live. No soldier would pull such a stunt. If he did, he'd be court martialed. There's only 1 record of a thing like this happening in the old west, between Doc Holiday and a man who taunted him over losing a poker game. People have always been smarter than this.

Norm

[ShotX2]

@theshadow1932 Norm-- It is Darwin , not you who is/ was the idoit. Evolved ?

What a crock. And we all have something to prove, even if it's that we have nothing to prove. That is about as "evolved" we are. Get a chart and study something "simple". Like the ear. Yours, a dog's, a cow's. Yeah, that came out of the goo. Sx2

[cf1934]

@theshadow1932 YOU SOUND LIKE AN IDIOT!

[eddiemac303]

great song

[zaaritha]

This was a fantastic movie!

[PhillipCreeper]

Tex Ritter was great singing the title song but Frankie is terrific too. Frankie also was great singing the 1950s version of 3:10 to Yuma and Gunfight at the OK Coral.

[johnmason2354]

Tex Ritter's version was perfect for the time that the movie depicted. The song helped make the movie and Tex Ritter was the perfect "cowboy" singing and not some girly man"...

Thanks Arnold!

[eugenecraddock]

Laine pas Lane

[MrJudie80]

Haha, a bit dramatic ...soon i fear he begins to cry..

It was an awesome film, "HIGH NOON"; THE STATION and THE CLOCK and the most beautiful woman on earth GRACE !!

[dioclese]

the title song you hear here was actually never used in the film, the films opening score was i believe (and correct me if i,m wrong here) performed by tex ritter....who was the father of john ritter who became famous on the "three,s company" tv show

[MasterJackAubrey]

dioclese - True. Not sure why they didn't use Frankie Lane's version for the movie. Perhaps he didn't record this version until much later? There's another version that's even better than THIS one. It's slower, quieter...haunting, almost nostolgic. In any case, if you listen to the Tex Ridder version, you might wonder why they ever bothered. It's a bizarre rendition made worse by a bizarre THUMPING in the background (drums? horses? Someone falling down stairs?)

[iowa61]

They didn't use it, 1) because it didn't exist yet, and 2) It's a totally slicked-up, white bread version that would be totally, insanely inappropriate for the mood and ambiance of the movie. BTW High Noon was deliberately shot in black and white for the same artistic reasons: atmosphere, context, mood, tone, etc.

[MasterJackAubrey]

iowa61, It's obvious you didn't read my comment. Typical Youtube trolling. I suspected Frankie's version was done "much later" and even said so. More importantly, I said that there was ANOTHER version of this that was MUCH quieter, slower and more in keeping with the feel of the movie. I still think Tex Ridder's version is all wrong. Clunky and recorded in a bath-tub. You confuse "artistic" with incompetent. Whatever the hell is thumping in the background should've gotten SOMEBODY'S attention!

[iowa61]

Fortunately the verdict of history is on my side... Tiomkin DELIBERATELY sought a primative, spare, haunting sound. Something that could have been credibly played in the period. A guitar, accordian and your nemesis, a crude tom-tom, support Ritter. It is Lane's slicked up version that would have been completely inappropriate for the movie and utterly implausible for the period. Ironically, the other version you may be referring to was Ritter's slicked up re-recording for commercial release.

[MasterJackAubrey]

iowa61 - I don't think I've ever heard anybody refer to 1950's ballads as "slicked up". Frankie Lane belted out several versions of this song with this being the worst. The other one was quiet and had a sense of regret and nostalgia. Tex Ridder always sounded like your uncle singing in the shower (i've always hated your uncle). Little chance of mistaking that for the dulcet voice of Frankie Lane. Besides, I'll never forgive Tex Ridder for fathering one of the WORST actors TV ever knew.

[iowa61]

Well, I never liked my uncle either, but that's beside the point...

And John Ritter. Hooboy. RIP.

But your subjective like or dislike of the original version of High Noon notwithstanding, Kramer, Zinneman, Tiomkin and Cooper got exactly what their great American motion picture deserved and needed to complete the masterpiece. High Noon remains one of the greatest, arguably the greatest, American motion picture of all time... theme song and all.

[MasterJackAubrey]

iowa61 - Well, we agree on at least one thing. Your uncle sucks! This movie is a MASTERPIECE. One of the few in a genre that seemed to dwell on the cartoonish aspects of cowboys and indians, lovable sidekicks and bad guys. It was the first "psychological" western, seriously exploring the uneasy questions of cowardice, fear and duty (bravery had nothing to do with Cooper's character). It's up there with The Searchers, My Darling Clementine and Blazing Saddles ("Mongo just pawn in game of life").

[iowa61]

I'll see that and raise ya, pardner... With all do respect to Alex Karras, I think it's far above the others, one of the greatest American films of any genre. BTW, David Crosby's (of CSN&Y) dad was the cinematographer...

[Bus6845]

Thank you for pointing out the Ritter father and son connection. I enjoyed 3's company show.

This particular song was in the 78 record my father bought shortly after he took the whole family to see the movie.

[mal334455]

wonderfull song ....no one did it better than Frankie

[sunwarrior88]

Ok...lol, I'll add my .2 cents worth; One of the best Westerns ever made, GREAT acting and the theme song by Laine is TOPS!

[001tonka]

@sunwarrior88

The theme song from the film was by Tex Ritter, Frankie Laine had the hit with the song

[zaaritha]

Great movie--great titlesong!!

[dadajockamo]

I seen this movie on my 19 birthday, love the song Grumpy 33

[Apollogranforte]

In my opinion a great movie and the best version ever recorded of this song.

[Shitkoolie]

Great film! The business owners (rich)are the cowards of the world, as in this story. Always remember, the right, is not!

[xmurli]

Democrats are the cowards.

[1946mc]

en français : "le train sifflera trois fois"

[54spiritedwill54]

Excellent! I loved it.

[harrylaneshow]

its LANE me!

[livndream4u2]

This songs reflects the cowards, the craven cowards in America that won;t stand up for the right and put polticians right, REAL RIGHT. REPLACEMENT

[johnny9148]

standing alone this movie is about life. How many of you out there when it came down to it had to stand alone this way . johnny

[jimmied01]

This was a twist on a Commie theme. I loved the movie anyway. Katy Jurado was a beauty....

[cf1934]

You sound like John Wayne.

[jimmied01]

If you read about the sub-plots regarding this flick, you'll see why I said what I said.

[ObamaRules4Ever]

The best Communist movie.

[idatomhue]

Why communist?

[ObamaRules4Ever]

Carl Foeman was a crad-carrying Communist and Stalinist. You know how much Wayne hated this film.

[idatomhue]

ObamaRules4Ever, The message of the movie does not come over as communist. It is about taking on injustice and how people back off when it really comes down to it. I prefer High Noon to all of the wayne Westerns.

[ObamaRules4Ever]

Will Kane was meant to be Foreman himself, going up against the evil HUAC (Miller and his gang) while nobody in the town of Hadleyville (Hollywood) would help him.

As it was, only Cooper tried to help him.

[unclescrumple1]

what a fantastic track(theme track)all this modern shite aint got a patch on this

[RILEYJEFF]

I agree 100%. this theme has a haunting effect each time I listen to it. A great singer too, cheers

[lilliviale]

do not forsake ever this start of this great song of my youth , thank you very much

[clockwatcher1661]

SUPERSONIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lloydhl]

Frankie did an excellent cover of Tex Ritter's famous song! Great movie!

[lilliviale]

una voce unica degli anni '50 che creava un'atmosfera particolare piena di emozioni, grande frankie il canatante della mia giovane vita

[rezcrash88]

Great western , a real classic now with real class actors. Joins small list of movies that can be called ,  Great

[skut90]

one of the best Western.

[Poldark3]

Excellent! I loved it.