@MrFleshyheadedmutant -- I heard that the movie was already in full production when Gene's song hit the charts which may be why the song wasn't used in the movie. Yet I believe it was this song on Top 40 radio that inspired me and millions of other kids to go see that movie at Saturday matinees across the country
Makes me laugh,everybody loves this song but some people think they are too sophisticated to admit it. I know a retired classical pianist who knew Pavarotti and she hums it when she does the dishes I'm a peasant so I've always been able to say I love it.
pity, I was 12 when this song hit the charts, but my parents didn't like the rock and roll stations, so I never heard it till years later. one of my all time favorites.
A great song indeed. When I went to see the Jimmy Stewart/ John Wayne/ Lee Marvin movie I was surprised and disappointed that this great song was not used as the moie's theme song and was not heard at any time during the movie. It's my favorite of all of Gene Pitney's many top 40 hits.
it 's strange, when this song was realesed, people who where 15 and 17 years old but also where listen to mozart and beethove, but otherwise nobody is listen to them anymore...
@regaltwo if you see the movie again when wayne gets ready to shoot valance look at his face, his mood he's not happy the music of the movie is very somber, during that point, as wayne pauses next to the wall. but i will admit losing the girl, was part of it too. but during the movie wayne challenges valance face to face more than once and wanted to kill him that way. not shooting him like he did from the alley.-- wayne quote-"liberty valance toughest man south of the picket wire, next to me!
My dad used to play this song all of the time when I was really young. I didn't even remember it until my sister posted a link on facebook. This song rocks! Ahhh.... nostalgia.
@CuervoMa1 john Wayne killed him, from the alley, and not face to face like he would have wanted to, that is why Wayne is upset after valance's death, because he killed valance in a cowardly sort of way. He wanted to face liberty ,man to man and kill him.
Gene Pitney Was Great. Every song was full of drama. Every song had something to say. Glad he got a Grammy before he died. And chandlerherbert2 --He was 60s music -- early to mid-60s. Not 50s.
I was 5 when this song came out, remember hearing it over the tinny speakers of our 58 Ford pickup. I was certain at the time this song was written about my dad, a WWII vet who was the best shot with a rifle I had ever seen.
Every kid should be so lucky to grow up with a dad who also happens to be your hero.
The 19 idiots that do not like this song are all listening to Justin Bieber and they think he is better. What can you expect they do not know good singing or music. Young and dumb..anint that the truth...ha ha ha.
Reading that Gene was of Polish ancestry, always thought he might have been Italian, anyone know what his name was growing up? thanks any info appreciated!
@Tunz909 He did a few 45s singing in italian but that doesnt prove he is italian he said you can make a lot of sheckles writting songs that is the money in israel but that dont prove he is jewish either
If I said Bacharach and David wrote the song, I apolgize. However, I don't think that I did. I had heard that the film's producers, Paramount, its music publishing arm Famous Music, and the writers had arguments over royalties and the song was left out of the film.
i remember being really young, and my dad used to play this song in the car on the tape player, and i used to love this song. i always said to my dad, dad put that gene pitney song on. and here i am about 11 years from that time still loving this song. who'd have knew it!
@smufdawg Oh, So you're the one !! I was wondering who it was... Thanks for clearing that up... LOL. Just messing with you... Have an excellent week, friend...
So many people love this old Gene Pitney gem but won't admit it. They won'[t even admit they know the words. I love it for the memories and Pitney was a kid himself when he made it.
wow what a different time in america - shoot the badman and be a hero! now lawsuits and all the other crap - we need another john wayne to run the country! soon real soon we will have -
this is the song that i purposely play at traffic lights on occasions when some idiot is blasting rap or similar from ther rice burner - as always, these kids ned to keep two things in mind : 1)get a real car- pre 1972 muscle will do just fine. 2)"when two men go out to face each other, only one returns"
@JayBBluejay No. The movie producers hired Cyril Mockridge, Irvin Talbot, Jack Hayes, and Leo Shuken to do the music for the film. They did not hire Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the movie. This song was inspired by the movie and was not even written until after the movie was released. There has been a lot of confusion about it since then. I like this song, but it has several pieces of information that would misdirect people about the events in the film.
Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
omg im only 27.... but i have to say my dad used to play this song for me and my older brother all the time.... we loved it... used to sing to it in the back seat of the car while my dad was driving haha
@TarnahClair Sounds like your dad had great taste in music..I'm 54 and I used to drive my two kids absolutely NUTS by playing a cassette I had recorded of this tune and others.....
@TarnahClair as best as i can put it, that would be about 14 yrs ago, and your dad was playing this song then?? wow, he must really really like this song! the last time i heard it was in 1962, i was in 2nd grade, and i was on the school bus with my radio in biloxi miss. oh yah, i was weened on rock and roll... :)
@AG4572 oh johnny horton did "sink the bismarck"! i didn't know that! i used to know all the words to that song. and that other one, lets see, there were several right around that time, one was a song about that army patrol that got ambushed by the indians, oh " please mr. custer, i don't wanna go"' and that one about fighting the british, " well they ran through the briars, and they ran through the bremples down the miss. to the gulf of mexico! i grew up with those songs. oh, give your wife a k
duke did not avoid military service, he had a family. and he was at the upper age of drafting. they figured he would do more good selling war bonds and making movies and public speaches
Do your homework or just be honest, pal. Wayne was much more interested in advancing his career than serving his country, and had a long and well-documented history of avoiding military service. Clark Gable
and Henry Fonda were older than Wayne; both served, and fought, as well. Likewise Jimmy Stewart, who
was just a year older than Wayne. As an imposter, however, he was huge.
@tonywsmith2 -- In fact, Jimmy Stewart, a licensed pilot, was rejected by the Army Air Corps for being underweight so he went on a weight gaining diet and was later accepted for service. During his WW2 hitch he always sent 10% of his Army pay to his agent. After the war ended, Jimmy kept his commission by remaining in the Air Force reserves, eventually attaining the rank of brigadier general yet never capitalized on his military rank or achievements to further his acting career..
@tonywsmith2 -- And yet the Duke dared to criticize the young men who protested the Vietnam war and avoid serving in it, making that horrible pro-Vietnam war propaganda film (The Greeb Berets); What a hypocrite! I've engoyed many of his movies but that 1 I'll always refuse to watch.
@Thekinksfanatic~agree wit u Kyplaya74lyfe.My parents brought meup on thiskind of music.I will always thank them for that love of real muscians music.r.i.p.Dad.<3r.
I really surprised a group at a Karaoke Bar once...I sang this and I usually sing girly stuff like The Supremes, Carly Simon, etc. They loved this!!!! I nailed it....HA!
This song was a huge hit in Australia before anywhere else, for which Gene was always grateful.He gave out his email address on 'The Mike Walsh Show' (TV) around 1998, and I started corresponding with Gene, who answered every e-mail. Imagine that today!
He was one of the most charming, talented, cherished people in my life... as I was recovering from eye cancer surgery, his positive outlook helped enormously.
Back in 82... My 5th grade teacher made us get up in front of the school and sing this song. All while dressed up as cowboys...We had cap guns and let 'em off... He put together a whole play based on this song. ...I haven't heard this song since then, but I still know all the lyrics as if i was still standing up on stage with a stupid smirk on my face firing my cap gun....Yehaaa grandpaaaaa!!!!! :-))
@MonkeyInAHumanSuit What an excellent story !! Great imagery. Thanks for sharing it. I could almost smell the caps as tthey were being fired. Hello to a fellow Gene Pitney fan !!
@fab4fan4ever64 i would really like to know what their criteria is for deciding who gets in and who doesn't! oh, hi fab4fan4ever64! fancy meeting you here!
@fab4fan4ever64 well who are these people who do the inducting?! because it seems to me they are the very same people that run "homeowners accociations" and neighbor hood watches!! idiots that suddenly get a little power and they don't know how to handle it!! i would really like to have a talk with them!!!
I listened to this song many,many times during the early to mid - sixties. We still have the original 45-single,it was on 'Coral Records', I'd have to look at it to see what the B-side was. I didn't see the movie until the early 70's. The 'Royal Guardsmen' did a nice cover of it (minus the fiddle intro and rest). But Gene Pitney's is the one!! Many fond memories of this song and my youth. Love that intro!!!
TheKinksfantatic - good for you and good for your parents. Im just 67 and thanks to my parents I listened and still listen to music way before my time also. Long live Vaughn Monroe, Rudy Valley, Bob Eberly, Early Sinatra (what a voice then with the Dorseys). I was also lucky to grow up through the hayday of Rock and Roll, 1955 - 1965. From Rockabilly to DooWop to East Coast Beach Music. Love it all.
can't beleive I'd forgotten this movie & song....my mother loved the old movies & that's what we watched as grew up...the calssics will always be the best...Thank you so much for putting this great song out here
Eat it, sixteen year-old. I don't even have an iPod. Why? Because I'm motherfucking two years old, that's why!
2Dchan 19 hours ago
I'm 2 and I love this.
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2Dchan 19 hours ago
16 year old girl and i love this song so much hahaha it's so great
if people found it on my iPod they'd freak
Yeahyeahwatwat148 1 week ago
20 people must be relatives of Liberty Valance.
dynamytedave 2 weeks ago
Who the hell would dislike this???
rydag11 2 weeks ago
@rydag11 20 outlaws, 20 Indians or 20 liberty valance fans lol ? who knows
dean24uk 2 weeks ago
His voice is awesome
Akaimayn 2 weeks ago 2
This is the west. When the legend becomes fact. Print the legend.
JohanStarDragon 3 weeks ago
great song great movie
crow672008 1 month ago
19 people missed Liberty Valance at the showdown.
deussolinvictus 1 month ago
Gene's voice still gives me the chills, after 50 yrs! what a voice, what a singer
Lloydhl 1 month ago
Also the story of the movie with the same name. My favorite western, with a most outstanding cast.
frakinaur 1 month ago
I felt bad for John Wayne not getting the girl in the movie. He did the right thing but it still sucks. The Duke: An American!
shadowpsfp 1 month ago 4
@shadowpsfp -- But you missed the moral of the movie; When the legend becomes fact, go with the legend.
WytZox1 3 weeks ago
back when men were men, and not whining little bastards...
jpringle1979 2 months ago 3
@jpringle1979
in 1881 alot of civil war vets tough, dads !
pheildcorn 1 month ago
@eraserheead Wrong. 19 people are just ignorant and have no taste in music. That is all.
jackslater230011 2 months ago
Great movie---great song!
MrFleshyheadedmutant 2 months ago
@MrFleshyheadedmutant -- & yet ironically this song was never heard anytime during the movie, not even in the opening or closing credits.
WytZox1 3 weeks ago
@WytZox1 ---Yeah, kind of a rip-off for GP. The lyrics & music were superb.
MrFleshyheadedmutant 3 weeks ago
@MrFleshyheadedmutant -- I heard that the movie was already in full production when Gene's song hit the charts which may be why the song wasn't used in the movie. Yet I believe it was this song on Top 40 radio that inspired me and millions of other kids to go see that movie at Saturday matinees across the country
WytZox1 3 weeks ago
@WytZox1 The only thing that inspired me to see this movie was THE DUKE
168waco 6 days ago in playlist gene pitney
Its sad my little brother who is only 12 said he wanted to listen to this song. I am so proud!!!!!
johnster5684 2 months ago
Makes me laugh,everybody loves this song but some people think they are too sophisticated to admit it. I know a retired classical pianist who knew Pavarotti and she hums it when she does the dishes I'm a peasant so I've always been able to say I love it.
deriter64 2 months ago
Ledgend
satiricdistress 2 months ago
This is cool because it actually has a storyline, excellent phrasing and flow and of course it's being performed by an incredible voice.
axslinger99 2 months ago 2
pity, I was 12 when this song hit the charts, but my parents didn't like the rock and roll stations, so I never heard it till years later. one of my all time favorites.
radicright 2 months ago
19 people are deaf.
eraserheead 2 months ago 2
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eraserheead 2 months ago
i listen to funk music, some rap, and metal, this is my favorite song.
TheCanttouchthis121 2 months ago
fuck if i had a voice like that id sing every fucking day
Immortalicast 2 months ago in playlist mix 21
@Immortalicast I don't agree with your choice of language but I agree totally about his voice. :)
TheSteiny69 3 weeks ago
great song I agree but the movie was even better
VIZIOE32 2 months ago
I am maybe one of the most badass 17 years old boy because i know this song.
skaterausberlin94 3 months ago 16
@skaterausberlin94 Nuthin' wrong with that. Love good and hate evil !
GDS4VR 3 weeks ago
Great Movie and even better song! Gene's best work!
1957thack 3 months ago 2
@1957thack
You are 100% right, it's his very best recording ever. What a treasure he was.
LoisHaywood 2 months ago
A great song indeed. When I went to see the Jimmy Stewart/ John Wayne/ Lee Marvin movie I was surprised and disappointed that this great song was not used as the moie's theme song and was not heard at any time during the movie. It's my favorite of all of Gene Pitney's many top 40 hits.
WytZox1 3 months ago
22 years old. and this is my all time favorite song. after that is 24 hours from tulsa!
leklekbruva 3 months ago 2
it 's strange, when this song was realesed, people who where 15 and 17 years old but also where listen to mozart and beethove, but otherwise nobody is listen to them anymore...
konsidoherty 3 months ago
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0917gva 3 months ago
who shot liberty ashens?
KantorekBaumerB14 3 months ago
@KantorekBaumerB14 An excellent reference. *chef exellence music, thingy...yes*
TheOpenSourceGamer 3 months ago
@TheOpenSourceGamer you just won +5 internet points, he lied.
KantorekBaumerB14 3 months ago
@regaltwo if you see the movie again when wayne gets ready to shoot valance look at his face, his mood he's not happy the music of the movie is very somber, during that point, as wayne pauses next to the wall. but i will admit losing the girl, was part of it too. but during the movie wayne challenges valance face to face more than once and wanted to kill him that way. not shooting him like he did from the alley.-- wayne quote-"liberty valance toughest man south of the picket wire, next to me!
Weaponsuser 4 months ago
My dad used to play this song all of the time when I was really young. I didn't even remember it until my sister posted a link on facebook. This song rocks! Ahhh.... nostalgia.
babblebah321 4 months ago 2
Just watched this film, near the end James Stewart says that it was John Wayne who shot him from the alley.
jillharris18 4 months ago
John Wayne shot him to save Jimmy Stewart. But it ended with Stewert getting the girl. That's why JW is upset.
regaltwo 4 months ago
Great movie !!
edko426 4 months ago
He's dead Liberty!
Israeltekhelet 4 months ago
NOTE; Click on (show more -bar-) to see the LYRICS to this great song...Please let me know of any omissions or errors...Thank You...
Brent441 4 months ago
@CuervoMa1 john Wayne killed him, from the alley, and not face to face like he would have wanted to, that is why Wayne is upset after valance's death, because he killed valance in a cowardly sort of way. He wanted to face liberty ,man to man and kill him.
Weaponsuser 4 months ago
Many think John Wayne shot Liberty Valance but it was Jimmy Stewart not JW...
CuervoMa1 4 months ago
@CuervoMa1 Sorry friend, John Wayne shot him from the alley. It's told by Jimmy Stewart right near the end of the film.
ChiefSailor1948 4 months ago
@ChiefSailor1948 -- Which led to the moral of the story; When the legend becomes fact, go with the legend. Ironically this is true thruout history.
WytZox1 6 days ago
Love the movie, love the song, sing along whenever I hear it.
The movie also had many memorable lines, including: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend"
MauraNic07 5 months ago
I bloody love this song!!!!!! :D It makes me so happy! I had it memorized by about the second time I heard it.
Cheyennebeth 5 months ago
Love the song--hate stereo versions--the 45RPM mono mix is better.....
FredPellon0208 5 months ago
i like music like gene pitney and still somehow like gene pitney
OmgStoma 5 months ago
19 people are women folk that hide.
rylosprime 5 months ago
Gene Pitney Was Great. Every song was full of drama. Every song had something to say. Glad he got a Grammy before he died. And chandlerherbert2 --He was 60s music -- early to mid-60s. Not 50s.
jfrank94608 5 months ago
I can really dig this 50s music!
chandlerherbert2 5 months ago
you gotta love John Wayne :)
zinc4life 5 months ago
the movie was LEE MARVIN WAS OUTSTANDING!!!!!
cepierce100 5 months ago
I was 5 when this song came out, remember hearing it over the tinny speakers of our 58 Ford pickup. I was certain at the time this song was written about my dad, a WWII vet who was the best shot with a rifle I had ever seen.
Every kid should be so lucky to grow up with a dad who also happens to be your hero.
enduroman428 5 months ago
Who knew this was written by BURT BACHARACH???
peterm3964 5 months ago
i love music like aerosmith and and eminem but i love this song
MrJR171 5 months ago
The 19 idiots that do not like this song are all listening to Justin Bieber and they think he is better. What can you expect they do not know good singing or music. Young and dumb..anint that the truth...ha ha ha.
TheTourmaster13 5 months ago
one of the first singles i ever owned, age 11 or so.
motown1diva 5 months ago
19 people were shot by Liberty Valance.
RedneckCountryBoy623 5 months ago
19 dislikes damn pretty good tune striaght forward
Defendor1983 6 months ago
only love another great pitney song... wish there were some
only videos of him singing out there....
aSkilledGamer 6 months ago
Great song!
ronaldusfree1 6 months ago
Simpsons showed me these :D
Partyffs 6 months ago
@Partyffs Which episode?
Redwhiteblue8 6 months ago
Reading that Gene was of Polish ancestry, always thought he might have been Italian, anyone know what his name was growing up? thanks any info appreciated!
Tunz909 6 months ago
@Tunz909 He did a few 45s singing in italian but that doesnt prove he is italian he said you can make a lot of sheckles writting songs that is the money in israel but that dont prove he is jewish either
spacepatrolman 6 months ago
If I said Bacharach and David wrote the song, I apolgize. However, I don't think that I did. I had heard that the film's producers, Paramount, its music publishing arm Famous Music, and the writers had arguments over royalties and the song was left out of the film.
JayBBluejay 6 months ago
@JayBBluejay bacharach and david did write this song they just didnt score the film john ford didnt like popular songs in movie soundtracks
spacepatrolman 6 months ago
"The man who shot - Osama Bin Laden - he shot - Osama Bin Laden - he was the bravest of them all"
quirpco 6 months ago
@quirpco nobody shot him he died of kidney faiure 9 years ago he needed dialisis
spacepatrolman 6 months ago
The move would have been much better with this song over the closing credits
foiran 6 months ago
I love this song. It isn't played in the movie, PC I guess.
imtoast 6 months ago
I wonder when Hollywood will attempt to do a remake of this great movie. They will wreck it for sure.
countryhoney28 6 months ago
i remember being really young, and my dad used to play this song in the car on the tape player, and i used to love this song. i always said to my dad, dad put that gene pitney song on. and here i am about 11 years from that time still loving this song. who'd have knew it!
guitarhero199 6 months ago
sometimes i pee on the side of the toilet to make it quieter
smufdawg 7 months ago
@smufdawg OH MY GOD ME TOOO. IT'S JUST ONE LOUD SPURTY STREAM
ghunderstank 7 months ago
@smufdawg
you know, i hate it when pissfilled toiletwater splashes back to my butthole when i take a giant turd
skaterausberlin94 6 months ago
@smufdawg Oh, So you're the one !! I was wondering who it was... Thanks for clearing that up... LOL. Just messing with you... Have an excellent week, friend...
fab4fan4ever64 6 months ago
So many people love this old Gene Pitney gem but won't admit it. They won'[t even admit they know the words. I love it for the memories and Pitney was a kid himself when he made it.
deriter64 7 months ago
great song . great artist. the past defines the inferiority of today's music.
radicright 7 months ago 2
wow what a different time in america - shoot the badman and be a hero! now lawsuits and all the other crap - we need another john wayne to run the country! soon real soon we will have -
nutbagbrew102 7 months ago
Who are the women singing backup on this tune? They are really fantastic.
scdevon 7 months ago
HE REMINDED ME OF FRANKIE LAINE AND I THINK THEY WERE BOTH GREAT. JHD
metalman45ret 7 months ago
fell in love with Gene Pitney with this song - lucky for me I had a sister who is 5 yrs older - I was only 11! Still love him!
lisianblue 7 months ago
No one sang this like Gene. No one.
Tonithenightowl 7 months ago
he sings like a bird.His,s eyes are sorrafull.But he was cute.i liked his songs.
7466309change 7 months ago
Ahhh,, Memories !!
fishinfoolus 8 months ago
this is the song that i purposely play at traffic lights on occasions when some idiot is blasting rap or similar from ther rice burner - as always, these kids ned to keep two things in mind : 1)get a real car- pre 1972 muscle will do just fine. 2)"when two men go out to face each other, only one returns"
akibubba1 8 months ago 2
Great song and a great movie.
who3697cares 8 months ago
Great song. One of my favs!
CL137626 8 months ago
My dad loves the movie and song.
rdhatfield1 8 months ago
this song was written for the movie but didn't get on the soundtrack!
moxie96 8 months ago
@moxie96 This song was written about the movie, but was not part of the movie.
globalnettuber 7 months ago
@globalnettuber Originally it was supposed to be in the Paramount movie, but it did not get in time fo the release.
JayBBluejay 7 months ago
@JayBBluejay No. The movie producers hired Cyril Mockridge, Irvin Talbot, Jack Hayes, and Leo Shuken to do the music for the film. They did not hire Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the movie. This song was inspired by the movie and was not even written until after the movie was released. There has been a lot of confusion about it since then. I like this song, but it has several pieces of information that would misdirect people about the events in the film.
globalnettuber 6 months ago
@moxie96 How so???
pervychika666 7 months ago
its wierd im 15 i listen to metal and rap but for some reason this is my fav song @.@
MRDOOMBOY12345 8 months ago 16
@MRDOOMBOY12345 so do i i love medal dont like rap as much though but i absolutely will never lose my taste in oldies 50s and 60s songs
12gimli3 3 months ago
@MRDOOMBOY12345 It's not weird. It's a great song. That you like it so much shows you have an open mind and like variety.
PutnamEntertainment 3 months ago
@MRDOOMBOY12345 i am 29 and do the same thing its cause gene pitney is bad ass
916toy 3 months ago
class
TheJohn868 8 months ago
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Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
robertoamor2011 8 months ago
omg im only 27.... but i have to say my dad used to play this song for me and my older brother all the time.... we loved it... used to sing to it in the back seat of the car while my dad was driving haha
bethany2781 8 months ago
I'm 17 now and this song was one of the most played songs on long car journeys on holiday with our dad when we were kids.
TarnahClair 8 months ago 33
@TarnahClair Sounds like your dad had great taste in music..I'm 54 and I used to drive my two kids absolutely NUTS by playing a cassette I had recorded of this tune and others.....
borecleaner1 8 months ago
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TarnahClair 8 months ago
Music like this song and Elvis Presley will always remind me of my dad. :)
TarnahClair 8 months ago
@TarnahClair Your dad had a great taste in music. I hope the trips are fond memories now.
mtlyb 8 months ago
@TarnahClair as best as i can put it, that would be about 14 yrs ago, and your dad was playing this song then?? wow, he must really really like this song! the last time i heard it was in 1962, i was in 2nd grade, and i was on the school bus with my radio in biloxi miss. oh yah, i was weened on rock and roll... :)
m1kewithaone 7 months ago
@m1kewithaone I'm 39...I play it occasionally and my 3 year old has heard it. The true classics don't die. :)
Mind you , my wife rolls her eyes when I fire up the likes of Gene Pitney and Johnny Horton etc. No class. :)
AG4572 7 months ago
@AG4572 oh johnny horton did "sink the bismarck"! i didn't know that! i used to know all the words to that song. and that other one, lets see, there were several right around that time, one was a song about that army patrol that got ambushed by the indians, oh " please mr. custer, i don't wanna go"' and that one about fighting the british, " well they ran through the briars, and they ran through the bremples down the miss. to the gulf of mexico! i grew up with those songs. oh, give your wife a k
m1kewithaone 7 months ago
@m1kewithaone
"Sink the Bismark" was the battle-cry of all good engineers
We had to use artillery, because we had no spears...
spurnthemuse 6 months ago
@spurnthemuse that's what i'm talkin' about!!
m1kewithaone 6 months ago
@AG4572 but the thing i'm wondering is, like i haven't even heard this song in 45 years! you're only 39, so how did you hear about it??
m1kewithaone 6 months ago
@TarnahClair You mean 57?
99ontguy1 6 months ago
@99ontguy1 Am I 57?! No haha, I actually just turned 18.
TarnahClair 6 months ago
@TarnahClair im 18 and its same with me, whenever i hear this song just makes me thing childhood holidays, the best times =)
skellfat 6 months ago
@TarnahClair was a staple between Qld and Vic, i could do the trip with my eyes closed....
gretamob 5 months ago
@TarnahClair sorta the same with me, but with my grandparents....i put counrty&western / classical before all other genres.
jamesisbackdude101 5 months ago
duke did not avoid military service, he had a family. and he was at the upper age of drafting. they figured he would do more good selling war bonds and making movies and public speaches
arthurfrostad 8 months ago
@arthurfrostad
Do your homework or just be honest, pal. Wayne was much more interested in advancing his career than serving his country, and had a long and well-documented history of avoiding military service. Clark Gable
and Henry Fonda were older than Wayne; both served, and fought, as well. Likewise Jimmy Stewart, who
was just a year older than Wayne. As an imposter, however, he was huge.
tonywsmith2 8 months ago
@tonywsmith2
I have the documentary that told exactly what happened. ive seen it several times. whats the big deal anyway, he's been dead for years.
arthurfrostad 8 months ago
@tonywsmith2 -- In fact, Jimmy Stewart, a licensed pilot, was rejected by the Army Air Corps for being underweight so he went on a weight gaining diet and was later accepted for service. During his WW2 hitch he always sent 10% of his Army pay to his agent. After the war ended, Jimmy kept his commission by remaining in the Air Force reserves, eventually attaining the rank of brigadier general yet never capitalized on his military rank or achievements to further his acting career..
WytZox1 6 days ago
best country western song ever ♫♪
diy0hedgehog 8 months ago
my wife just added a Gene Pitney radio station to her smart phone and is dancing around the house damn its sooo funny
GreenBackTrading 9 months ago
@GreenBackTrading you, sir, have a cool wife there! good on ya!
tatelabianca 8 months ago
18 people don't know who shot Liberty Valance
Temorablue 9 months ago 4
Great song for a great film.
dan2009 9 months ago 2
Omg what a lol song!
o0mgn 9 months ago
The Duke is a good example of a man. Focused his mind on something and made sure it was done right even if he had to do it himself. Great role model.
MrGeekwithagun 9 months ago
@MrGeekwithagun
He also avoided military service like the plague. Duke? Forget it. King of Imposters was more like it.
tonywsmith2 9 months ago
@tonywsmith2 -- And yet the Duke dared to criticize the young men who protested the Vietnam war and avoid serving in it, making that horrible pro-Vietnam war propaganda film (The Greeb Berets); What a hypocrite! I've engoyed many of his movies but that 1 I'll always refuse to watch.
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notntusay 9 months ago
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@Thekinksfanatic~agree wit u Kyplaya74lyfe.My parents brought meup on thiskind of music.I will always thank them for that love of real muscians music.r.i.p.Dad.<3r.
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notntusay 9 months ago
I grew up listening to this kind of music... And I LOVE it
titanicluvphantom6 9 months ago
I liked this song a lot and the movie was good to
jbibb66 9 months ago
I grew up singing this song and others like it. Thanks for this.
sadia102 9 months ago
OH, by the way...I"m a 63 yr old granny...LOL
retrolady66 10 months ago
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@retrolady66 shut up nigger
TheJondo12 9 months ago
I really surprised a group at a Karaoke Bar once...I sang this and I usually sing girly stuff like The Supremes, Carly Simon, etc. They loved this!!!! I nailed it....HA!
retrolady66 10 months ago
Written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David
ekocentric 10 months ago
Awesome, love country music.
HittokiriBattousai17 10 months ago
This song was a huge hit in Australia before anywhere else, for which Gene was always grateful.He gave out his email address on 'The Mike Walsh Show' (TV) around 1998, and I started corresponding with Gene, who answered every e-mail. Imagine that today!
He was one of the most charming, talented, cherished people in my life... as I was recovering from eye cancer surgery, his positive outlook helped enormously.
It's a debt I can never repay.
Or perhaps I can.
Thanks to Gene.
1ausskipper 10 months ago 3
Song wasn't in the movie due to contract problems between Paramount and the publishers of the song.
DSM1G90 10 months ago
THE man himself, John Wayne, shot ol' Liberty Valance.
Was this tune in the movie? sounds familiar, but don't think i've ever heard the song lyrics...
bLacKxxxLoDgE 10 months ago
Back in 82... My 5th grade teacher made us get up in front of the school and sing this song. All while dressed up as cowboys...We had cap guns and let 'em off... He put together a whole play based on this song. ...I haven't heard this song since then, but I still know all the lyrics as if i was still standing up on stage with a stupid smirk on my face firing my cap gun....Yehaaa grandpaaaaa!!!!! :-))
MonkeyInAHumanSuit 11 months ago
@MonkeyInAHumanSuit What an excellent story !! Great imagery. Thanks for sharing it. I could almost smell the caps as tthey were being fired. Hello to a fellow Gene Pitney fan !!
fab4fan4ever64 10 months ago
Gene Pitney was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2002... Sometimes they get it right... RIP Gene...
fab4fan4ever64 11 months ago 29
@fab4fan4ever64 You're right - sometimes they get it right...
jolangjolang 10 months ago
@fab4fan4ever64 i would really like to know what their criteria is for deciding who gets in and who doesn't! oh, hi fab4fan4ever64! fancy meeting you here!
m1kewithaone 7 months ago
@fab4fan4ever64 blows my mind that it took that long. He was one of a kind. No one sounded like him. He stood alone.
Tonithenightowl 7 months ago
@fab4fan4ever64 well who are these people who do the inducting?! because it seems to me they are the very same people that run "homeowners accociations" and neighbor hood watches!! idiots that suddenly get a little power and they don't know how to handle it!! i would really like to have a talk with them!!!
m1kewithaone 6 months ago
I had this stuck in my head and was singing it out loud all day... everybody looked at me funny...
AroundTweed 11 months ago
@AroundTweed especially at the part "...everyone heard two shots ring out, one shot made Liberty fall..."
DancingSpiderman 9 months ago
The movie has my two favorite actors: John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart!
HeraldOfBlueEyes 11 months ago 2
A great old one.
age49 11 months ago
Greta Voice - left us to early
ljjbloes 11 months ago
Great song from a classic movie!
zaaritha 11 months ago
I've never heard this... But I love it!
971redhead 11 months ago
I've never heard this... But I love it!
971redhead 11 months ago
I listened to this song many,many times during the early to mid - sixties. We still have the original 45-single,it was on 'Coral Records', I'd have to look at it to see what the B-side was. I didn't see the movie until the early 70's. The 'Royal Guardsmen' did a nice cover of it (minus the fiddle intro and rest). But Gene Pitney's is the one!! Many fond memories of this song and my youth. Love that intro!!!
1from60 11 months ago
TheKinksfantatic - good for you and good for your parents. Im just 67 and thanks to my parents I listened and still listen to music way before my time also. Long live Vaughn Monroe, Rudy Valley, Bob Eberly, Early Sinatra (what a voice then with the Dorseys). I was also lucky to grow up through the hayday of Rock and Roll, 1955 - 1965. From Rockabilly to DooWop to East Coast Beach Music. Love it all.
lookingback62 11 months ago
is this song from the movie or written about it? i've never actually seen the movie. is it any good?
omarskats3000 11 months ago
great song. it's my favorite western too.
nostradamross 11 months ago
good on You pds3939!!!!!
TheQ97 11 months ago
can't beleive I'd forgotten this movie & song....my mother loved the old movies & that's what we watched as grew up...the calssics will always be the best...Thank you so much for putting this great song out here
kjsinftw 11 months ago
@MVillan1985 Thats I why said don't listen to the radio
RAWHITZ 11 months ago