It's not fair that you blocked out the songs pertinent information...
Someday when I play it again I won't have a clue as to who it is unless I look it up all over again.
1. The Man Who Shot <rap on the snare drum> Liberty Valence.
2. Gene Pitney
3. Burt Bacharach
4. 1962
5. Gene will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 18, 2002, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.
I believe it will be aired on Wednesday on VH1.
From: ctnow.com
The early days: Pitney began singing in high school in a local group called Gene Pitney and the Genials. With a girl named Ginny Arnell, he recorded his first songs as part of a 1959 duet, Jamie and Jane, for Decca. He changed his name to Billy Bryan for his first solo single on the Blaze label before switching once and for all to his real name.
A writer: When the Kalin Twins recorded Pitney's song "Loneliness," he decided to concentrate on writing, which paid off in a hurry. His songs were recorded by several of the top acts of the day. Steve Lawrence cut Pitney's "Tears From Heaven," Tommy Edwards recorded "Blue Heartaches" and Roy Orbison put Pitney's "Today's Teardrops" as the flip side to his Top 10 single "Blue Angel" in 1960. But when Bobby Vee made a Top 10 hit out of "Rubber Ball," Pitney became a hitmaker, followed shortly by Rick Nelson's successful "Hello Mary Lou" in 1961.
Recording star: Preferring his own voice to those used on the demo records of his songs, Pitney spent $30 to cut "(I Wanna) Love My Life Away," which became his first Top 40 hit in 1961. The sound of his reedy, emotional pipes stood out on the radio, and soon he was recording songs by other writers. In fact, most of his hits were by other writers, from "Town Without Pity" to "Only Love Can Break a Heart" and "It Hurts To Be in Love."
The Phil Spector connection: Pitney was the singer on one of producer Phil Spector's greatest "wall of sound" recordings, "Every Breath I Take," with its dizzying spin of strings matching his own vocal gymnastics. Spector took Pitney's composition "He's a Rebel" and made it one of the landmark recordings of early rock as cut by the Crystals.
The Rolling Stones connection: Because Pitney's publicist, Andrew Loog Oldham, was also the Stones' producer, Pitney hooked up with the band early in its career, joining them on a "Thank Your Lucky Stars" program in England. He was also credited on a couple of the Stones' studio sessions, including "Little by Little" (the flip side to the their first U.S. hit, "Not Fade Away") and "Now I've Got a Witness" on the band's first album. Pitney was also the first artist to hit the U.S. charts with a Jagger-Richards composition when he covered their "That Girl Belongs to Yesterday."
The Bacharach-David connection: Long before Elvis Costello got involved with Burt Bacharach, Pitney was the anointed male voice for Bacharach's difficult pop compositions with Hal David, producing such hits as "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valence," "Only Love Can Break a Heart," "True Love Never Runs Smooth" and "24 Hours from Tulsa."
The other hits: Among Pitney's other Top 40 charting hits in the '60s were: "Half Heaven-Half Heartache," "Mecca," "I'm Gonna Be Strong," "I Must Be Seeing Things," "Last Chance To Turn Around," "Looking Through the Eyes of Love" and "Backstage."
The country connection: Pitney recorded whole albums with such country legends as George Jones and Melba Montgomery and appeared at the Grand Ole Opry with Buck Owens, Eddie Arnold, Roy Clark and Connie Smith.
International star: Pitney did more than most to expand his worldwide following by recording albums in other languages such as "Gene Espanol" and "Gene Italiano." In a 1964 poll, he was voted Italy's top singer, and he twice placed second (the highest position given a non-Italian) in the San Remo Song Festival for his songs "Quando Ve Drai La Mia Ragazza" and "Nessundo Me Puo Guidicare."
Bubble-gum connection: Pitney co-wrote a song cut by the late '60s Saturday-morning TV puppet group the Banana Splits called "Two Ton Tessie." He was in good company; Barry White and Al Kooper were among the writers on some other tracks cut by Fleagle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky.
R&B comeback: Pitney's big return to the charts in 1968, two years after his previous Top 40 hit, was with the scorching proto-soul song "Heartbreaker," quite unlike anything he had done.
'80s comeback: When former Soft Cell member Marc Almond teamed with Pitney to rerecord the latter's "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart" for a No. 1 hit in England in 1988, Pitney found himself fashionable before a whole new generation of British fans.
Concert demands: Coaxed out of retirement from touring in 1983, his hit in England only increased his demand on the road. Although most of his concert tours continued to be in England, Europe and Australia, U.S. bookings began to pick up after a filmed PBS special of a concert at Foxwoods Resort Casino in 2000 began getting airplay nationwide.
-MusicMan
P.S. I remember watching that western when I was a kid.
Perhaps one of 4 or 5 that I remember seeing.
Others are:
The Gattling Gun
High Noon
The one with Ule Brenner and approx. 10 others that I can't think of the neame of right now even though it's on the tip of my tongue. The one with the cool song.
Ah! Got it!
The Magnificent Seven!
...I'm sure there is another couple of old John Wayne movies but I can't think of any of the names right now other than the St. Patrick's Day Classic, The Quiet Man...
Anyone have any titles for me?
Any favorite old time Westerns?
There was a short time in my childhood where I remember running around with my cowboy hat and six shooter trying to get the bad guys in black hats.
My house wasn't big enough for them and me...
...and one of us had to go...
Then mom made it quite clear that shooting caps off inside the house was not going to happen...
...after that I was back to shooting with my trusty 7 shooter finger. The extra bullet is what always helped me win.
The bad guys would count six shots and think I was busy reloading but there was always one left...
Ka Pow! Pow! Pow! Ka Pow!!!
Reach for the sky!
-KimosabesMask
P.P.S. Trivia Challenge
What type of bullets did the Lone Ranger use?
What does Kimosabe mean?
What was the name of Tanto's Horse?
What was the name of the theme song that they played?
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