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It is an instrumental in the two John Wayne films Rio Bravo (1959) and The Alamo (1960), and was also used in The Alamo (2004). In the first two films mentioned, the same music is used: not the actual Deguello, but music written by film composer Dimitri Tiomkin. In the third film, it is in the form of a military dirge.
Degüello (/ d ɛ ˈ ɡ w eɪ oʊ / de-GWAY-oh) [4] is the sixth studio album by the American rock band ZZ Top, released in November 1979.It was the first ZZ Top release on Warner Bros. Records and eventually went platinum.
"Remember the Alamo" is a song written by Texan folk singer and songwriter Jane Bowers. [1] Bowers details the last days of 180 soldiers during the Battle of the Alamo and names several famous figures who fought at the Alamo, including Mexican general Santa Anna and Texans: Jim Bowie, William Barrett Travis and Davy Crockett. It champions the ...
Media response to Asleep at the Wheel Remembers the Alamo was generally positive. Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Thom Jurek described it as "a wonderfully wrought, engaging, enlightening, and thoroughly delightful listening experience," praising Benson for "humaniz[ing] the Alamo for the listener, giv[ing] it faces, feelings, context, and a new kind of endurance that is certainly romantic ...
Max Steiner's theme song for The Last Command, "Jim Bowie", is sung by musical star Gordon MacRae, who that year was starring in the smash hit film Oklahoma!, adapted from the famous Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Steiner's score also re-imagines El Degüello, the Mexican song of no quarter as a bugle call.
Asleep at the Wheel is an American Western swing music group that was formed in Paw Paw, West Virginia, in 1970, [4] and is based in Austin, Texas.The band has won nine Grammy Awards, released over 20 albums, and has charted more than 21 singles on the Billboard country charts.
"The Green Leaves of Summer" is a song, composed by Dimitri Tiomkin with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, written for the 1960 film The Alamo. [1] It was performed in the film's score by the vocal group The Brothers Four.
Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin [a] (May 10, 1894 – November 11, 1979) [1] was a Russian [2] [3] [4] and American film composer and conductor. Classically trained in Saint Petersburg before the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Berlin and then New York City after the Russian Revolution.