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The Have Gun – Will Travel theme (and fragments of incidental music also used in the television series) are featured in a chase scene across snowy fields; at the 35:25 mark of the film, the actual Have Gun – Will Travel opening theme is played in recognizable form, although the scoring is slightly different from the better-known television ...
The song reached No. 10 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962. [1] Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. [2] Eddy's flip side was the theme to The Wild Westerners. The song was produced by Lee Hazlewood and arranged by Bob Thompson. [3]
The six songs which resulted from those sessions were released on three singles on the local J-O-C-O label. [4] After having played a supporting role in an episode of "Have Gun, Will Travel", Western wrote "The Ballad of Paladin" as a musical "thank-you-card" to Richard Boone.
Boone and Roxane Berard, who guested on Have Gun – Will Travel three times Boone's next television series, Have Gun – Will Travel , made him a national star because of his role as Paladin , the intelligent and sophisticated, but tough gun-for-hire in the late 19th-century American West.
[7] [1] Also in 1962, Eddy recorded "The Ballad of Paladin", the instrumental theme song to the western television series Have Gun – Will Travel, in which Eddy also acted in two episodes. [7] [1] Eddy had sold 12 million records by 1963. [7] In 1965, he released an album of instrumental versions of Bob Dylan songs.
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that was produced and originally broadcast by CBS on Saturdays at 9:30–10:00 pm (EST) from 1957 through 1963. The television version of the series starring Richard Boone was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons.
Have Gun - Will Travel was the third most watched television program in America during the show's first three years. [26] Rolfe co-wrote the show's theme song "The Ballad of Paladin" with Johnny Western and show star Richard Boone. [27] The song was chosen one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time by the Western Writers of America. [28]
Have Gun – Will Travel ("The Ballad of Paladin") – Johnny Western, Richard Boone, and Sam Rolfe; Have I Got News for You – Big George; Hawaii Five-O – Morton Stevens; Hawaiian Eye – Mack David and Jerry Livingston; (performed by Warren Barker) Hawaiian Heat ("Goodbye Blues") – Tom Scott and Candy Patterson