Vaughn Monroe: songs from Singing Guns film 1950

[cripplious]

actually in the movie the band moved off to his side because the bad guy threatened to shoot them if they started to sing the song singing my way back home for the woman saloon owner.

[downhill240]

I wonder if this is the ony movie in history where the "Good cowboy" sang to the "bad Cowboy"?! I saw Roy sing to Trigger, I saw Gene sing to Champion and I saw Rex Allen sing to Cocoa. Heck I even saw Cisco sing to Poncho! But I ain't never seen anybody sing to the bad-guy. live and learn!

[GooglFascists]

@downhill240 Yes, and the bad guy seems to be charmed by it! Must've

severely messed up his groove when Monroe shot the glass out of his hand.

SO MUCH FOR HIS ROMANTIC EVENING!

The "phantom back-up band" is hilarious!

Almost as funny as the one guy with a wristwatch on his upraised arm

in the movie "Ben Hur", (dated 3,000 years before wristwatches were invented).

[fatjud1]

i would love to have the movie but can't find it anywhere

[foxvienna1]

@fatjud1 On the Western Channel from time to time. Jeff Corey, Billy Gray, and Elinor Donahue have minor roles. Walter Brennan , Ella Raines and Vaughn Monroe star.

[grannydyess]

great song and singer. loved vaughn monroe. he was a good actor also. saw most of his cowboy movies

[VideosTimes2]

I believe he only made 2 westerns.

[grannydyess]

he could sing and was not a bad actor. God bless u vaughn monroe!

[VideosTimes2]

Look closely...there's no band behind Vaughn at 44 seconds, but at 1:43, there the band is! Then at 2:16 the band has curiously disappeared again.

[lennhart]

Respectfully --you can see the music stands of the band as early as :44. You can see them again at 1:22.

Then ---at 1:30 --you get another angle in which the band is directly behind Monroe.

[flxible52]

The band is there, just the angle of the shot. Not wanting to be a spoiler, there is a reason shown earlier in the movie why the band is moving about. Great post, superb movie. Vaughn just didn't like the movies, preferred band engagements and the East Coast.

[VideosTimes2]

What a band...they can dodge bullets, move away from the bandstand leaving it empty, and not miss one note in the arrangement as they back up Vaughn! I still think it's an editing problem, which often happened in B westerns.

[homeontherock]

I always loved this song and the movie as well - thanks for posting this

[flxible52]

Monroe does a grand job in this film and the other to his credit "Toughest Man in Arizona" really don't know if he didn't like the movies, but with his great voice, the films are both excellent and have superb casting and interesting stories.

[gordonp34]

sweet

[djmugan]

If there is a better cowboy ballad than "Mexicali Trail", I have yet to hear it. Good job VM!