Artist: Frankie Laine
Author: Dimitri Tiomkin/Ned Washington
Label: Columbia
Year: 1958
Film and tv series theme. Dimitri Tiomkin also composed the themes for Giant, Guns Of Navarone, High Noon, The Old Man And The Sea, Rio Bravo and The Alamo.
Covers:
Bill Monroe [used it to audition and eliminate candidates for his Blue Grass Boys]
Trio De Janeiro [as Het Ware Westen]
Not to be confused with Link Wray's Raw-hide ('59), covered by the Belmont Playboys.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)