Frankie Laine - The Hanging Tree

How did this Jazz Singer from Chicago
get to be known as a Cowboy Singer?
The younger generation relates him to movie western theme songs. Well here's another one.
Frankie didn't sing it in the 1959 movie by the same name,(Marty Robbins did), but he did sing it on TV at the 1960 Academy Awards Program. Then he put it on his
"Hell Bent For Leather" Album. No matter how he got to be a cowboy, he was good at it.

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[zilkinson1]

as a young boy .the only record of my fathers i was intrested in. was the one with the cowboy on the front and i carnt beleive i have found the best track on you tube

[markalson1938]

@zilkinson1 I think this Jazz Singer from Chicago made a lot of new fans with the Album "Hell Bent For Leather"

It also proved that you didn't have to be born in the South or th West to be able to sing "Country And Western".

[MikeWhiskyTango]

There are lots of people who can sing in the world, but can they convey the 'atmosphere' of the story behind the lyrics? NO, not like Frankie.

[markalson1938]

@MikeWhiskyTango Yes, Frankie was one of a kind and always was. That is the reason it took him so long to make it to the top. He couldn't make it with the Big Bands of the 30;s & 40's as he didn't blend in to their way of playing music, he wasn't a Crooner and sang with to much passion. It took him 17 years of struggle and was in his mid thirties when he rose to the top.

[4dandino]

I have never found any body like these old timer performers. This song and other songs of these 1950 performers and movie producers that produce this kind of master peices of the 20 century will never be found again.

The new generation performers, actors, and singers will never produce great work like Frankie Lane. Today''s movies, and singers, and actors, cannot make any music or movies without adding vulgarity, and when they produce music--lookout I cannot even understand the words.

[markalson1938]

@4dandino I could not have said it better. I think there must be singers with talent out there but they just don;t know how to use it

[eldorado62]

Darn, Frankie....I wish I could sing like you!

[markalson1938]

I wish I could sing period. I can't sing at all, but I do know a great voice when I hear it.

[labyrinthineify]

wicked song



[BetterGettaLawyerSon]

@zilkinson1 me exactly the same. that cowboyoutfit did it. loved this track the best too, a happy song about hanging: FTW

[grannydyess]

this man was great but i prefer marty robbins version. there was no better singer than marty but laine vaughn monroe johnny western run right behind him

[zilkinson1]

as a young boy .the only record of my fathers i was intrested in. was the one with the cowboy on the front and i carnt beleive i have found the best track on tou tube

[pristinebob]

todays singers cant put so emotion in to the songs its all beat box not real talent