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> Based on a fine short story by Dorothy Johnson, who also wrote "The
> Hanging Tree" and "A Man Called Horse."

The Hanging Tree is a classic Marty Robbins song, and I'm pondering the
same questions as the OP about it.

rms
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"Bill Anderson" wrote in message

> Blue wrote:
> it was a good ol' Western.
>>
>
> Based on a fine short story by Dorothy Johnson, who also wrote "The
> Hanging Tree" and "A Man Called Horse." Back in the days when I taught
> 8th grade English, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" was in an anthology
> I'd sometimes use.

I used to have an anthology of her stories, including those, but can't find
it. LIBERTY VALANCE was also published as a novelization by James Warner
Bellah, author of the stories on which Ford's cavalry trilogy were based.

Jim Beaver
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On Oct 14, 12:14?am, Blue wrote:
> a great theme song to a great movie, sang by Gene Pitney.
> If I remember correctly, the song wasn't used in the movie, pretty
> sure my memory ain't that good, but, it was a good ol' Western.

One song is, the music from "Young Mr. Lincoln" known as the Ann
Rutledge theme.
Funny thing, the studio recycled it in "Belle Starr" a few years after
"Lincoln". I've noticed other reuses of other themes, often after just
a few years. We forget that movies used to be made to be seen once,
with a bottom bill re-release a few years later, if ever.
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tomcervo wrote:

>One song is, the music from "Young Mr. Lincoln" known as the Ann
>Rutledge theme.

What was it "adapted" from?







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"Blue" wrote in message

>a great theme song to a great movie, sang by Gene Pitney.

Written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach.
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On Oct 15, 4:47?pm, wrote:
> "Blue" wrote in message
>
>
>
> >a great theme song to a great movie, sang by Gene Pitney.
> > If I remember correctly, the song wasn't used in the movie, pretty
> > sure my memory ain't that good, but, it was a good ol' Western.

> I could save you allot of reading-John Ford hated and released the movie
> before Pitney's versions was finished.


Thank God--that and "Alfie" are two very pleasant surprises in that
the gruesome pop tunes associated with them appear nowhere on the
actual soundtrack.
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"Blue" wrote in message

>a great theme song to a great movie, sang by Gene Pitney.
> If I remember correctly, the song wasn't used in the movie, pretty
> sure my memory ain't that good, but, it was a good ol' Western.

Here are a few links that may explain
>
http://www.allmovieportal.com/m/1962_The_Man_Who_Shot_Liberty_Valance63.html


http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=377853


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Shot_Liberty_Valance

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=5997



I could save you allot of reading-John Ford hated and released the movie
before Pitney's versions was finished.
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rms wrote:

> The Hanging Tree is a classic Marty Robbins song, and I'm pondering the
> same questions as the OP about it.

Marty Robbins tunes are movies in themselves. I wonder if any of them
have been filmed?

Coming down 35 on the way to Mexico from the prairie, I'd wonder
sometimes if they'd forget. My brother and my buddy. Yet each and every
time the wheel touched the bridge, they'd break out in perfect harmony

We crossed the Brazos at Waco
Ride hard and I'll make it by dawn
Cross the Brazos at Waco
I'm safe when I reach San Antone

You know how long that bridge is? Just exactly the same length as the
bridge in the Marty Robbins tune.


--
'... my name is Noman; this is what my father and mother and my friends
have always called me.' - Odyssey; Book IX
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> We crossed the Brazos at Waco
> Ride hard and I'll make it by dawn
> Cross the Brazos at Waco
> I'm safe when I reach San Antone
>
> You know how long that bridge is? Just exactly the same length as the
> bridge in the Marty Robbins tune.

Except it's not MR's song is it? I don't think I've heard it by him,
but probably Billy Walker. A quick google search didn't show who the writer
or original singer was though.

But yes, 'Feleena' & 'El Paso' together would make a good movie script
:)

rms

>
>
> --
> '... my name is Noman; this is what my father and mother and my friends
> have always called me.' - Odyssey; Book IX
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rms wrote:

> Except it's not MR's song is it? I don't think I've heard it by him,
> but probably Billy Walker. A quick google search didn't show who the writer
> or original singer was though.

Hmnn. I always thought so.

http://www.tsrocks.com/m/marty_robbins_texts/cross_the_brazos_at_waco.html




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'... my name is Noman; this is what my father and mother and my friends
have always called me.' - Odyssey; Book IX
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