100 Songs Of The Wild West

Artist: Various Artists
Format: 4CD
Bar-code: 5060324800545
Cat No: NOT4CD054

From the windswept plains and dusty cattle trails to the silver screen’s golden glow, the legend of the American West has ridden tall in the saddle of song. 100 Songs of the Wild West, a 4CD collection, gathers a century’s worth of musical storytelling, ballads of gunfighters and drifters, cowhands and outlaws, heroes and heartbreakers, tracing the myths and melodies that helped define the American frontier in popular imagination. Together, these 100 songs chart the evolution of the American West in sound, from the campfire ballads of the nineteenth century to the polished orchestrations of the twentieth. The heroes and villains of these tales may be long gone, but their stories live on in melody and verse. The clatter of hooves, the whistle of the wind, the creak of saddle leather, all are heard again here, echoing across a century of music.

 

DISC 1

1. (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance – Gene Pitney
2. Don’t Take Your Guns To Town – Johnny Cash
3. Big Iron – Marty Robbins
4. Riders In The Sky – Eddy Arnold
5. The 3:10 To Yuma – Frankie Laine
6. Delia – Burl Ives
7. North Wind – Slim Whitman
8. Gunslinger – Katie Lee
9. Jesse James – The Kingston Trio
10. The Streets Of Laredo – Don Gibson
11. The Wayward Wind – Patsy Cline
12. Mooshatanio – Jimmie Driftwood
13. Rovin’ Gambler – Hank Thompson
14. The Battle Of New Orleans – Rusty Draper
15. Billy The Kid – Tex Ritter
16. Mean, Mean Son Of A Gun – Johnny Horton
17. Five Brothers – Marty Robbins
18. The Rebel-Johnny Yuma – Cowboy Copas
19. Wanted Man – Frankie Laine
20. Mule Train – Tennessee Ernie Ford
21. Nine Pound Hammer – Merle Travis
22. Shoot The Buffalo – Jimmie Driftwood
23. Hank And Joe And Me – Johnny Cash
24. Chisholm Trail – Tex Johnson
25. Back In The Saddle Again – Gene Autry

DISC 2

1. Bonanza! – Johnny Cash
2. Death Valley – Glen Campbell
3. Tennessee Stud – Eddy Arnold
4. Ballad Of The Alamo – Marty Robbins
5. Gunslinger – Frankie Laine
6. Sam Bass – Tex Ritter
7. North To Alaska – Johnny Horton
8. San Antonio Rose – Patsy Cline
9. Tom Dooley – The Kingston Trio
10. Nineteen Men – Johnny Western
11. Cool Water – The Rooftop Singers
12. The Pony Express (I’ve Got To Carry The Mail) – Jimmie Driftwood
13. Oklahoma Hills – Hank Thompson
14. Belle Starr – Tex Johnson
15. Lost On The Desert – Johnny Cash
16. Samuel Hall – Paul Evans
17. The Battle Of Little Big Horn – Porter Wagoner
18. Kaw-Liga – Hank Williams
19. Public Enemy Number One – Webb Pierce
20. Gunfight At The O.K. Corral – Frankie Laine
21. Blood On The Saddle – The Willis Brothers
22. The Widders Of Bowling Green – Jimmie Driftwood
23. The Long Black Veil – Lefty Frizzell
24. Ride, Cowboy Ride – Marty Robbins
25. Ballad Of Davy Crockett – Bill Hayes

Disc 3

1. El Paso – Marty Robbins
2. The Man Without A Star – Frankie Laine
3. The Wreck Of The Old 97 – Johnny Cash
4. Jim Bridger – Johnny Horton
5. I’m A Runaway – Tab Hunter
6. The Comancheros Are Taking This Land – Claude King
7. Ballad Of Paladin – Johnny Western
8. Diamond Joe – Cisco Houston
9. The Restless Gun – The Sons Of The Pioneers
10. The Oregon Trail – Tex Ritter
11. Tales Of The Texas Rangers – Shorty Long
12. Champion, The Wonder Horse – Frankie Laine
13. Happy Trails – Roy Rogers
14. The Master’s Call – Marty Robbins
15. Johnny Reb – Johnny Horton
16. The Cattle Call – Eddy Arnold
17. Remember The Alamo – Johnny Cash
18. A Town Called New Orleans – Jimmy Dean
19. Don’t Fence Me In – Roy Rogers
20. Ridin’ Down The Canyon – Sons Of The Purple Sage
21. Mary Of The Wild Moor – The Louvin Brothers
22. The Railroad Corral – Rex Allen
23. Pretty Boy Floyd – Ramblin’ Jack Elliott
24. Song Of The Wagonmaster – The Sons Of The Pioneers
25. Along The Navajo Trail – Frankie Laine

Disc 4

1. A Hired Gun – Jimmy Dean
2. Young Abe Lincoln – Johnny Horton
3. Rawhide – Frankie Laine
4. High Noon – Jimmy Dean
5. When I Take My Vacation In The Hills – Jimmie Driftwood
6. The Cottonwood Tree – Johnny Western
7. Wagons West – The Sons Of The Pioneers
8. Running Gun – Marty Robbins
9. Pecos Bill – Tex Ritter
10. Little Joe The Wrangler – Cisco Houston
11. The Old Apache Squaw – Johnny Cash
12. Bowie Knife – Frankie Laine
13. Comanche (The Brave Horse) – Johnny Horton
14. Whoopie Ti Yi Yo – Sons Of The Purple Sage
15. The Marshall’s Daughter – Tex Ritter
16. The Killer – Cisco Houston
17. The Strawberry Roan – Marty Robbins
18. Rollin’ Dust – Johnny Western
19. Melody Of The Plains – Rex Allen
20. Charles Giteau – Kelly Harrell
21. Bandit Cole The Younger – Edward L. Crain
22. My Rifle, My Pony And Me – Dean Martin
23. The Big Battle – Johnny Cash
24. Cimarron – Sons Of The Purple Sage
25. The Dying Cowboy – Cisco Houston