henry6 Gene! What a pitney you guys have to stoop so low.
Gene! What a pitney you guys have to stoop so low.
It could be verse
And who can forget those classic lines in that gravelly warble voice of his: " Punks like you are a dime a dozen!" CLASSIC !
54light15 I recall a movie where a man gets off a train in a dusty California town. He goes into the first record shop he sees and asks for a copy of the song, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." He had no luck. Every other record shop he visited did not have a copy. No one would talk to him about it. He got back aboard the train and realized, there truly was a town without Pitney.
I recall a movie where a man gets off a train in a dusty California town. He goes into the first record shop he sees and asks for a copy of the song, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." He had no luck. Every other record shop he visited did not have a copy. No one would talk to him about it. He got back aboard the train and realized, there truly was a town without Pitney.
Gene Pitney wasn't the only one, remember Johnny Horton's song, "Sink the Bismarck?" It came out after the movie of the same name. The thing about movies back then, like Liberty Valance, Spartacus and say, The Flight of the Phoenix is that when they opened it was a big deal, lots of newspaper promotions, banners and whatnot.and they played in theatres for months on end. The last movie like that was Star Wars. Can't think of any others since.
The thing about Liberty Valance is that it was directed by John Ford and every one of his westerns was a "big" picture. Stagecoach from 1938 remains one of my favourite movies and there is a worthy remake from 1966 with Bing Crosby playing the Thomas Mitchell part and Ann-Margaret (yow!) playing Claire Trevor's role. Not to ramble on so much but Edmund O'Brien played the Thomas Mitchell role in Liberty Valance.
God bless Johnny Horton! "Sink the Bismarck", "North to Alaska", "Battle of New Orleans", I could go on. What a loss. RIP Johnny.
The theme music for Highway Patrol had a special fan in my boyhood neighborhood.
Highway Patrol had long been cancelled when a local station picked it up in reruns. Every weekday afternoon at 4:00 P. M., Highway Patrol aired. The biggest fan in the neighborhood was a dog.
The dog's owners tuned in and two legged neighbors would bring visitors to hear the sing along. As soon as the ominous opening four notes played, the dog would howl along. The dog howled along until the theme finished.
The dog never sang along to any other music, only Highway Patrol.
Must've been a police dog.
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