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High Noon

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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.

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.

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.

As an "old cowhand" who heard many of these selections originally on 78's, it was a real pleasure to find this CD. Tex is the best of the best when it comes to crooning out the old numbers (Jack o Diamonds) as well as the newer songs. No collection of western country is complete without this album.

GO FETCH. It is the best ever collection of Tex Ritter music that I have. It shows how wonderful of a talent he is. From his cowboy style of music to his bluesy style and all other areas of music. Must have.

It is really good to get back to real traditional country music. I intend to buy more.