Late 1950s TV western themes

[diptwares]

A noble effort, but these are pretty sad versions of these songs, and a couple I don't even remember. Two that come to mind that were classics is "The Rebel" and "Have Gun Will Travel"

[rangeclerk]

YEEE HAW! Check out The Haunted Saloon hosted by Terry 'Ike Clanton' as think ya might enjoy 'em pard! Thanks fer postin'!

[arew234]

never knew the Gunsmoke theme had lyrics. great collection you got there!

[TheSV3]

Wow! In my 53 years, I never knew "Gunsmoke" had LYRICS. Thanx for sharing this.

[EyesofMarkWick]

I still have a 33-1/3 album with many of these exact recordings on it but I haven't heard them in years because I have no way of playing it. Thanks for posting this.

[thelosthills]

Brings back a lot of memories. I used to talk to Dale Robertson. He had horses at Santa Anita.

[thenegas2008]

love it brings back some good memories

[1951jmc]

brings back memories me and my brothers rode many a mile on the arms of the sofa shooting baddies

[rh2006fan]

Awesome video!! :)

[johnboy12ish]

You are just awesome for doing this, thanks so much! Real nice! I just discovered The Restless Gun series, that's pretty good! John

[Cabinessance]

Great fun and great memories. Thanks for posting.

[jolsonstories]

This is my kind of bizarre but fabulously fun collectible. I envy you your collection, but thank you for sharing it here. Great visuals and music!

[MrHamrick53]

Nice hearing these again ! Been a Long time .

[MrHamrick53]

Nice - long time of not hearing these !

[MacGrurry]

4 black guys in cowboy hats, that's priceless

[WOWJBEOWULF]

I love the Western television shows; they display the pacifist in U.S. Congress, look it is Jim Bowie, outlaw the Bowie knife while interpreting the Constitution of the "right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" is a matter of personal interpretation. Watch a celebrated American Heritage in a western, and watch them outlaw it; I sense identity with the outlaws, who claim firearms get in the way of home invasions and should be restricted--the Chicago mayor statement.

[mrgeorgebanjoman]

Who recorded this song?

[Rachella38]

Bet ur hips won't stop shaking starting from 0:07 to 1:38

[gsdrex]

Anyone remember "Temple Houston"? Looking for the intro. Jeffrey Hunter & Jack Elam. One of them sets the other's spurs spinning with trick pistol shot?

[meangene1000]

Ah, the memories. Thanks for putting this up. Takes me back to a time when I had no worries and all I cared about was baseball. By the way, Cheyenne was my all-time favorite. Clint Walker was and still is, something else.

[jason75]

Gees I havnt heard this since the 70

s

[mjp2501]

Boy, I had forgotten some of these,,thanks for posting, sure brought back some memories.

[roshanahmadzai]

can any one tel me name of the first song

[MONTYMGMT]

My babt loves the western movies by the Olympics.

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

What a great era it was for TV.

Classics that made you dream and wish you were in the west.

So many shows and so many years of fun.

Send me back in time.

George Vreeland Hill

[group4taker]

I agree with you, but can you see any tv company making the likes of these classics today. It's a shame but I think those days are gone forever

[mmedeviance]

sugarfoot sugarfoot easy lopin cattle ropin sugarfoot

[pegomyheart1]

I do agree that there were many popular western heros,and I watched most of them..But!! the biggest hit in television history and I quote.was "Warner Bros Studio Western", "Cheyenne" and Clint Walker made that possible..

[pegomyheart1]

Looks like you forgot the most popular tWestern Hero of the 50's. Cheyenne,

[banner74]

oh,you got a little argument there,I think The Lone Ranger or Davy Crockett are also strong arguments for most popular western hero of the 50's.

[Normk1111]

I didn't forget. I only used records that I own. So, I didn't have one for Cheyenne, so that's why no Cheyenne.

[unclebobunclebob]

@pegomyheart1 if i remember correctly, Cheyenne was part of a trio of rotating cowboy shows...the others being Sugarfoot and Bronco Lane...so really, it wasn't the most popular since it didn't even own its own spot in totality. But I liked it.

[pegomyheart1]

@unclebobunclebob ...Cheyenne which ran from 1955 to 1963, started out as part of a series called Warner Bros. presents.... Cheyenne proved to be the most popular of the series due to it's bigger than life star Clint Walker..and soon the other two shows were cancelled.....In 1958 Mr Walker walked out due to a contract dispute..and that was when Bronco and Sugarfoot came to be...Clint returned in 1959.....But Cheyenne was by far the most popular show...and most certainly had it's own theme....

[pastrami1945]

Great stuff...I was hoping to hear the theme from Have Gun, Will Travel. All these b/w programs were so good. There were Wanted...Dead or Alive, ehicj launded Steve McQueen, and also Trackdown, with Robert Culp. The list goes on...

[chat51]

very good thanks ,the days of the old west are almost forgotten

[ronaldt491]

Andy Griffith fans will recognize Annie Oakley/Gail Davis as the lady who outshot him in the Skeet shooting contest. Annie Oakley was on our local cable system a couple of years ago, unfortunately butchered due to a lot more commercials needed now than back then. Also until now I didn't know there were lyrics to the Gunsmoke theme.

[EvaDStruc]

Very enjoyable (except the intro is too long). I remember Sugarfoot, Jim Bowie, Wyatt Earp and others but I don't remember Buckskin or The Californians at all! Maybe they were on after my bedtime LOL. Take care, Diane

[rangermann5]

Sweet! Thanks for sharing these, its great to see the covers and hear the music from these great shows. Good stuff.....

[jballard459]

wonderful stuff, and thanks so much. Do you recall Sgt. Bilko?

[CarlDuke]

Great stuff. A time when so many wonderful westerns populated the TV screens.  Sadly though I think that these songs stand up better than many of the plots of those shows.

[eyes1a]

I haven't heard these in years-since my turntable quit turning. I have a33-1/3 PL with many of these exact recordings on it. It is still in th jacket and plays very well.

I don't know how to put video and audio here yet, but may get this album on someday.

I also have a Disney album with the actual Zorro theme and a first-person version of the theme by Henry Calvin (Sgt. Garcia).

[trampus321]

I've always been a cowboy....cap pistols and

boots! I remember all these with a smile.

Excellent......Thanks

[ranran19701]

I have this album on vinyl.......I've had it since 1956. Somewhere way back the cardboard jacket went missing but it is still one of my treasures. There are a few other songs on my version too, but all these are on it .......

Restless Gun is truly killer. Wells Fargo too.

These definitely have only two songs per disc.

[ranran19701]

Restless Gun at 5:00 just catapulted me back 53 years. Sugarfoot too. 5:32

Oh my God 6:00 Wells Fargo. This is absolutely priceless to me! 6:38 Wagon Train: Gene Roddenberry's inspiration for Star Trek.

7:15 Wyatt Earp cannot get any better.

Absolutely Gold to me!

[Labaron26]

Wow...$.49 albums with a special price of $.23. Reminds me of gasoline prices of .$.24 a gallon when I was a kid.

[ranran19701]

In the mid-fifties 78 rpm records still outsold 45s. These look like 78 "singles" with two songs per side.

[Thorwald88]

@Labaron26 I am reasonably certain that these are single records, two-sided. They sold for 49 cents each new -- except when they had just about stopped selling them. I grew up on 78 rpms, which were always getting broken but we could buy them used for 10 cents at a record shop that also provided jukebox services. They we went to "albums" (33 rpm) but they didn't really displace 45's for several years.

[unclebobunclebob]

@Labaron26 These were singles, not albums.

[johnsongbird]

At last ... the theme of Tenderfoot (sugarfoot in USA). Thanks a lot! It takes me back 45 years to Saturday nights in wintry London to the special treat of all of us brothers sitting in front of our BW telly whilst Dad, as a special treat, would serve us scrambled eggs. Strange - music and memories!

[68blues]

Yep... remember the good times.

[leviguy501]

Great Memories - altho for this wannabee cowboy born in the late fifties in the UK, I really don't remember too many of these!

Thanks for the memories!