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Highway Patrol starring Broderick Crawford

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Monday, January 27, 2014 9:37 AM

henry6

Gene!  What a pitney you guys have to stoop so low.  

It could be verseSmile, Wink & Grin

The daily commute is part of everyday life but I get two rides a day out of it. Paul
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Posted by tatans on Monday, January 27, 2014 10:06 AM

And who can forget those classic lines in that gravelly warble voice of his: " Punks like you are a dime a dozen!"  CLASSIC !

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Posted by wjstix on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 10:02 AM

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.

 
An interesting point (maybe?) is that the song "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" was based on the John Wayne / James Stewart movie of the same name...but the song wasn't used in the movie; it came out after the movie.
 
His hit song "Last Exit to Brooklyn" was also the name of a well-known (and somewhat scandalous) novel, but AFAIK other than the title had no connection to the novel.
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Posted by 54light15 on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 1:03 PM

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.

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Posted by Firelock76 on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 7:24 PM

God bless Johnny Horton!  "Sink the Bismarck", "North to Alaska", "Battle of New Orleans",  I could go on.  What a loss.  RIP Johnny.

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Posted by Victrola1 on Wednesday, January 29, 2014 8:57 AM

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.

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Posted by 54light15 on Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:26 AM

Must've been a police dog.

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