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The film's famous climax, a three-way Mexican standoff, begins with the melody of "The Ecstasy of Gold" and is followed by "The Trio". The main theme was a hit in 1968. The soundtrack album was on the charts for more than a year, [2] reaching No. 4 on the Billboard pop album chart and No. 10 on the black album chart. [4]
"Streets of Laredo" (Laws B01, Roud 23650), [1] also known as "The Dying Cowboy", is a famous American cowboy ballad in which a dying ranger tells his story to another cowboy. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
Western music is a form of music composed by and about the people who settled and worked throughout the Western United States and Western Canada.Western music celebrates the lifestyle of the cowboy on the open range, along the Rocky Mountains, and among the prairies of Western North America.
"Big Iron" is a country ballad song written and performed by Marty Robbins. Originally released as an album track on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs in September 1959, it was released as a single in February 1960 with the song "Saddle Tramp" as the B-side single. [2]
Hidden in the organ pipes, the gold is revealed. However, Monetero's men no longer trust their leader, leading to a shootout. The bounty hunter, the banker, and the bandit are forced to collaborate. In the end, they eliminate the enemies and face off in a Mexican standoff. Instead of shooting each other, they unleash their pistols on the organ ...
Charles Scott Boyer II (October 17, 1947 – February 13, 2018) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Boyer was best known for co-founding the band Cowboy.Boyer was born in Chenango, New York, and moved to Jacksonville, Florida in his youth.
The Colorado Trail (Roud 6695) is a traditional American cowboy song, collected and published in 1927 by Carl Sandburg in his American Songbag. [1] Sandburg says that he learned the song from Dr. T. L. Chapman, of Duluth, Minnesota, who heard it from a badly injured cowboy being treated in his hospital.
"The Strawberry Roan" is a classic American cowboy song, written by California cowboy Curley Fletcher and first published in 1915, as a poem called The Outlaw Broncho. By the early 1930s, the song had become famous; in 1931 it was sung by a cowboy in the Broadway play Green Grow the Lilacs .