High Noon [Import]

Tex Ritter | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 10, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Bear Family
• ASIN: B0000282VN
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #156,386 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. High Noon

2. Blood On The saddle

3. (I Got Spurs) Jingle, Jangle, Jingle

4. Good Bye, My Little Cherokee

5. Bad Brahma Bull

6. Boogie Woogie Cowboy

7. He's A Cowboy Auctioneer

8. Rye Whiskey

9. The Texas Rangers

10. The Chisholm Trail

11. Billy The Kid

12. Cattle Call

13. The San Antonio Story

14. The Marshall's Daughter

15. Wichita

16. Prairie Home

17. Gunsmoke

18. Remember The Alamo

19. The Last Frontier

20. The Searchers

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Of all Hollywood's 'singing cowboys', Tex Ritter, with his tack-plain but sincere bass, sounded most like the genuine article. This 28-track overview of his Capitol recordings spans 1942 to 1957 and a variety of production approaches from the folk spareness of Rye Whiskey in 1946 to the Baroque Western ripeness of Gunsmoke in 1955. On many of his Capitol sides, Tex was supported by such ace Capitol country accompanists as steel guitarist Speedy West and guitar legend Merle Travis. The set opens with High Noon recorded and released in England, and ends with Capitol's 'country' version. Other tracks include I Got Spurs To Jingle Jangle Jingle, Goodbye My Little Cherokee, The Chisolm Trail, Cattle Call, Remember The Alamo, The Night Herding Song and Blood On The Saddle.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Typical Bear Family excellence, April 17, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: HIGH NOON (Cassette) (Audio CD)

If you're looking for a single-disc Tex Ritter collection, this is the one to choose. At 28 tracks, it is a fairly comprehensive look back at Ritter's career, and--as you can see from the track listing--it has just about all the major western songs. Sound quality is great, and the disc contains informative liner notes that include a brief bio and complete session information. In all, this is the best way to get Ritter's music barring a purchase of Blood on the Saddle, the Bear Family box set.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not the Original Soundtrack!, April 18, 2000

By 

Roger L. Butler "Saloon Songster" (Belleville, Il USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HIGH NOON (Cassette) (Audio CD)

I really like the cd, but the two High Noons are not the original soundtrack recording. I have not been able to find the original, except recording it off the original motion picture. The same goes for the song "Wichita." All in all a very good cd. I recommend it.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get Along! Great CD, September 22, 2003

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Edward M. Erdelac (Valley Village, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: High Noon (Audio CD)

I picked this up wanting the theme song to High Noon and got a lot more than I bargained for. Although neither of the two versions of High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me O My Darling) presented here are the definitive track from the film (a couple verses are missing), the theme songs to The Searchers and Gunsmoke are here, along with some great pop western tracks (Boogie Woogie Cowboy, The Wayward Wind, Goodbye My Little Cherokee, and I Got Spurs [that] Jingle Jangle Jingle). There are a lot of ballads here, at least one of which (Rye Whiskey, or Jack Of Diamonds, as I've sometimes heard it called) is an authentic Old West tune. There are a couple surprises here too - Buffalo Dream is an emotional (and historically accurate) rendering of the rise of the Ghost Dance religion and massacre of the Sioux at Wounded Knee. Blood On The Saddle is an eerie tune about a cowboy dead in the saddle, and Remember The Alamo is a great soul stirrer (so long as you're an Anglo Texan). Great ballads, too. Brave Man sounds like a coda written by Marshall Dillon, John Wayne, and The Lone Ranger. Good stuff here, with very few turkeys (I didn't care for Trooper Hook) and some fine liner notes following the career of this western legend - the father of the late John `Come and Knock On My Door' Ritter.