My Rifle, My Pony and Me

by N/A

Overview

There is astonishingly little overlap between this 26-song collection, consisting of songs from various western movie and television soundtracks, and other, rival domestic releases. As usual, Bear Family has done its best to gather together the best and most unusual of this material -- a promotional-only single of Ricky Nelson and Dean Martin singing "My Rifle, My Pony and Me" from Rio Bravo (adapted by Dimitri Tiomkin from the title theme from a score he wrote for an earlier John Wayne/Howard Hawks movie, Red River); Merle Kilgore (sounding a lot like Tex Ritter) doing the title song from Nevada Smith; "The Legend of Shenandoah" by James Stewart, telling the plot of the film while a chorus sings the title tune, as a sort of audio trailer for the movie Shenandoah (more of an eastern than a western); the Sons of the Pioneers doing the title theme from The Searchers; Marty Robbins' version of "The Ballad of the Alamo"; Tex Ritter's second (and best) recording of "High Noon"; and the Sons of the Pioneers performing "Song of the Wagonmaster" and "Wagons West" from Wagonmaster; Roy Rogers singing "The Yellow Rose of Texas" (to an utterly unfamiliar melody); Johnny Cash's "The Sons of Katie Elder" (a soundtrack never reissued on CD); and the only CD release of Dean Martin's "Rio Bravo." There are no notes, but everything else is first-rate about this disc. ~ Bruce Eder

Product Details

Release Date:	06/28/1994
Label:	Bear Family Records
UPC:	4000127156259
Rank:	42405

Tracks

1. My Rifle, My Pony and Me
2. The Legend of Shenandoah
3. Montana
4. Nevada Smith
5. Ballad of the Alamo
6. Searchers
7. Ballad of Paladin
8. The Sons of Katie Elder
9. Rawhide
10. Ballad of Davy Crockett
11. Rio Bravo
12. I'm a Runaway
13. Bonanza
14. North to Alaska
15. Wagons West
16. High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)
17. The Rebel - Johnny Yuma
18. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
19. And the Moon Grew Brighter
20. The Hanging Tree
21. Pecos Bill
22. The Yellow Rose of Texas
23. Roll On, Texas Moon
24. Song of the Wagonmaster
25. Don't Fence Me In
26. Cowboy

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Roy Rogers & The Sons of the Pioneers   Primary Artist
Fess Parker   Primary Artist,Vocals
Johnny Horton   Primary Artist,Vocals
Dickson Hall   Primary Artist,Vocals
Tab Hunter   Primary Artist,Vocals
The Sons of the Pioneers   Primary Artist
Tex Ritter   Primary Artist,Vocals
Kirk Douglas   Primary Artist,Vocals
Frankie Laine   Primary Artist,Vocals
Marty Robbins   Primary Artist,Vocals
Lorne Greene   Primary Artist,Vocals
Roy Rogers   Primary Artist,Vocals
Rick Nelson   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Merle Kilgore   Primary Artist,Vocals
James Stewart   Primary Artist
Dean Martin   Primary Artist,Vocals
Johnny Cash   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Johnny Western   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Floyd Cramer   Piano
John Cyr   Drums,Mallets
Vincent DeRosa   French Horn
Howard Roberts   Guitar
Hugh & Karl Farr   Fiddle,Guitar
Sally Sweetland   Choir/Chorus
Dale Henry Warren   Guitar
Ed O'Connor   Guitar
Frank Wolfe   Piano
Jesse J. Colvard   Pedal Steel
George Kayser   Violin
James O. "Jimmy" Wyble   Guitar
Georger R "Deuce Spriggens" Braunsdorf   Bass
Hoyt Bohannon   Trombone
Harold Hugh Ehrmann   Saxophone
Francis Howard   Piano
Donald Robertson   Piano
William Pitman   Guitar
Bobby Gibbons   Guitar
M.C. Berry   Drums
Louis Dunn   Drums
Bob Moore   Bass
Louis Kievman   Viola
Jay Meyer   Choir/Chorus
Frank Carlson   Drums
Abe Luboff   Bass
Gerald Tomlinson   Guitar
Evangeline Carmichael   Choir/Chorus
Robert Florence   Piano
Loren Otis Shook   Guitar
Bill Reeves   Choir/Chorus
Lew McCreary   Trombone
Marshall Sosson   Violin
Noel Boggs   Pedal Steel
Ray Alonge   Horn
Mischa Russell   Violin
Mellomen   Choir/Chorus
Harold Bradley   Guitar
David Sterkin   Viola
Jimmy Joyce   Choir/Chorus
William Everett Strange   Guitar
Jack Pruett   Guitar
Ed Vito   Harp
Erno Neufeld   Violin
Ryland Weston   Clarinet
Shug Fisher   Bass
Allen Hanlon   Guitar
Michael Corda   Bass
Lloyd Perryman   Guitar,Vocals
Jim Decker   French Horn
Carroll Lewis   Trumpet
Arthur Shapiro   Bass
William Cole   Choir/Chorus
Bill Kanady   Choir/Chorus
Chuck Hurter   Violin
August Klein   Accordion
Andy Wolkowsky   Guitar
Betty Jane Baker   Choir/Chorus
Alton Hendrickson   Guitar
Barney Kessel   Guitar
Earl Palmer   Drums
Justin Gordon   Saxophone
Eleanor Slatkin   Cello
Ian Freebairn-Smith   Choir/Chorus
Irv Kluger   Drums
Jack Sperling   Drums
Shelly Manne   Mallets
Tommy Morgan   Harmonica
Edgar Lustgarten   Cello
The Carter Family   Choir/Chorus
Bill Lee   Choir/Chorus
Ken Lane   Piano
Billy Bauer   Guitar
Bobby Bruce   Violin
Luther Perkins   Guitar
Ken Curtis   Guitar
Ken Carson   Vocals
Korla Pandit   Organ
Jack Halloran   Choir/Chorus
Felix Slatkin   Violin
Milt Holland   Drums,Mallets
Milt Raskin   Piano
Cy Bernard   Cello
W.S. Holland   Drums
Tim Spencer   Vocals
Al Viola   Guitar
Ronald Langinger   Flute
Robert Sushel   Violin
Joseph Livoti   Violin
Dan Lube   Violin
Ervan Coleman   Guitar
Max Smith   Choir/Chorus
Robert Brady   Bass
Richard Shanahan   Drums
Randall Shepard   Choir/Chorus
Robert Tebow   Choir/Chorus
Alex Beller   Violin
Jack Rose   Guitar
Paul Robyn   Viola
Jack Halloran Choir   Choir/Chorus
Al Lerner   Piano
Rex Koury   Piano
Tommy Doss   Guitar
Allan Reuss   Guitar
Alvino Rey   Pedal Steel
Alvin Stoller   Mallets
Tony Mottola   Guitar
Gene Merlino   Choir/Chorus
George Barnes   Guitar
Carol Kaye   Guitar
David Gates   Guitar
Lew DeWitt   Whistle (Instrument)
Bob Bain   Guitar
Joe Zinkan   Bass
Johnny Douglas   Accordion
Neil Levang   Guitar
Lou Singer   Drums
The Statler Brothers   Choir/Chorus
Gerald Vinci   Violin
Gail Martin   Trombone
Morty Corb   Bass
Thurl Ravenscroft   Choir/Chorus
Kurt Reher   Cello
Al Caiola   Guitar
Tiny Timbrell   Guitar
Danny Welton   Harmonica
Frank Carroll   Bass
Dave Pell   Sax (Tenor)
Tony Rizzi   Guitar
Si Zentner   Trombone
Carl Fortina   Accordion
Bob Nolan   Guitar
Marshall Grant   Bass

Technical Credits

Jay Livingston   Composer
Dean Martin   Performer
Johnny Cash   Leader,Performer
Johnny Western   Composer,Performer
Dimitri Tiomkin   Composer
Hugh & Karl Farr   Leader
Jerry Livingston   Composer
Richard Markowitz   Composer
Sam Rolfe   Composer
Gloria Shayne   Composer
Gus Levine   Leader,Arranger
Earl Sheldon   Composer
Pat Ryan   Tom Tom Engineer
R.A. Andreas   Photography,Illustrations
William Edward "Billy" Liebert   Leader
Roy Horton   Leader
Walt Heebner   Producer
Benjamin Barrett   Contractor
Richard Quine   Composer
Ned Washington   Composer
Jerry Keller   Composer
Mark Wilder   Track Mix
Roy Rogers   Performer
Rick Nelson   Performer
Randy Starr   Composer
Ray Evans   Composer
Merle Kilgore   Performer
Moises Vivanco   Composer
Milt Rogers   Contractor
Mike Phillips   Composer
Tom Blackburn   Composer
Charles Bud Dant   Leader,Arranger
Bernardo Cosachov   Transfers
Ted Romersa   Contractor
Lew Stevenson   Tom Tom Engineer
Robert Fletcher   Composer
Jack D. Elliot   Composer
Hy Lesnick   Contractor
Fritz Bauer   Photography,Illustrations
B. Morgan   Producer
James Stewart   Performer
Larry Walsh   Track Mix
Eliot Daniel   Composer
Colin Escott   Photography,Illustrations
Traditional   Composer
The Sons of the Pioneers   Performer
Tex Ritter   Performer
Jimmy Kennedy   Composer
Kirk Douglas   Performer
Cole Porter   Composer
Jack Marshall   Leader
Frankie Laine   Performer
Fess Parker   Performer
Richard Boone   Composer
Richard Weize   Reissue Producer
Marty Robbins   Performer
Ray Conniff   Leader
John Lange   Composer
The Wayfarers Trio   Leader
Jimmy Carroll   Leader
Alfred Newman   Composer
Stan Jones   Composer
Tab Hunter   Performer
Charles Randolph Grean   Producer
Frank Jones   Producer
Elmer Bernstein   Composer
Fred Wise   Composer
Lou Forbes   Composer
Joe Reisman   Leader
Don Law   Producer
Fred Karger   Composer
Mack David   Composer
Johnny Horton   Composer,Performer
Dickson Hall   Performer
John Strother   Transfers
Dick Rowe   Producer
Lou Singer   Composer
Lorne Greene   Performer
Mitch Miller   Producer
Tillman Franks   Composer
George Bruns   Composer
George Cates   Producer
George Duning   Composer
Frank Carroll   Contractor
Paul Francis Webster   Composer
Bob Jones   Mastering
Bob Nolan   Composer
Billy Vaughn   Leader,Arranger