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)