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He also provided the theme song and the soundtrack for The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, the 1955-61 television series starring Hugh O'Brian, and The Adventures of Jim Bowie starring Scott Forbes. He was a composer and production supervisor for Walt Disney Studios and was choral and vocal director on the 1946 Disney film classic Song of the South.
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is the first Western television series written for adults. [1] [2] It premiered four days before Gunsmoke on September 6, 1955. [3] Two weeks later came the Clint Walker western Cheyenne. The series is loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp.
The title of the movie is borrowed from the theme song "Oh My Darling, Clementine", sung in parts over the opening and closing credits. The screenplay is based on the biography Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal by Stuart Lake, as were two earlier movies, both named Frontier Marshal (released in 1934 and 1939, respectively).
The program's theme song, "Whistle Me Up a Memory", was written by William M. Backer and performed by Jimmy Blaine. [1] The series did not deal with real characters in the history of Tombstone in the 1880s, such as Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, or the Clanton gang, with the exception of Curly Bill Brocius, who appeared in
The catchy theme song "Tell That Devil" is sung by Jill Andrews who co-wrote the track with Emery Dobyns and Matthew Mayfield. Other songs from Andrews have been featured on Grey's Anatomy , Teen ...
Wichita is a 1955 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Joel McCrea as Wyatt Earp. The film won a Golden Globe Award for Best Outdoor Drama. The supporting cast features Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges, Edgar Buchanan, Peter Graves, Jack Elam and Mae Clarke. The film's premiere was held in Wichita, Kansas, at The ...
Obverse of pocket watch given to Wyatt Earp by Tom Mix. Mix became friends with Wyatt Earp, who lived in Los Angeles and occasionally visited Hollywood western movie sets. [13] He was a pallbearer at Earp's funeral in January 1929. [14] The newspapers reported that Mix cried during his friend's service. [15]
Wyatt Earp was the last surviving Earp brother and the last surviving participant of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral when he died at home in the Earps' small rented bungalow at 4004 W 17th Street, [144] in Los Angeles, of chronic cystitis on January 13, 1929, at the age of 80.