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"(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, which was released by Gene Pitney in May 1962. It spent 13 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 4, [2] while reaching No. 2 on Canada's CHUM Hit Parade, [3] and No. 4 on New Zealand's "Lever Hit Parade".
Jack Hawkins of Slash Film named Liberty Valance the best feature of John Wayne's career, praising the film's meditations on violence, the state and the individual. [36] Director Sergio Leone (Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) listed Ford as a major influence on his work, and Liberty Valance as his favorite Ford film ...
The tune, originally called "Liberty's Whip" after The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, [3] was renamed after the band members saw a surfing movie showing scenes of the Banzai Pipeline in Hawaii. [4] The record, fitting in with the popular surfing craze of the time, swiftly rose up the Billboard Pop charts, reaching No. 4 and becoming a classic ...
These songs about America are about putting in the work to make those freedoms a reality and to make and keep our country a place of liberty, peace and justice for all. 50 Songs About America ...
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a 2014 Western stage play by Jethro Compton based on the 1953 short story of the same name by Dorothy M. Johnson, which also became the basis for the 1962 Paramount Pictures film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, directed by John Ford, starring James Stewart and John Wayne, with the song performed by Gene Pitney.
The song did not appear in the film but was intended simply to promote the film, making it what was known at the time as an "exploitation song". Similarly, the song "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance", which Bacharach and David wrote in 1962, promoted, but was not featured in, the film of the same name. [4]
Vera June Miles (née Ralston; born August 23, 1929) is an American retired actress.She is known for appearing in John Ford's Western films The Searchers (1956) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and for playing Lila Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and Richard Franklin's sequel Psycho II (1983).
"I'm Gonna Be Strong" is a song written by the songwriting duo Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. [1] It was first recorded by Frankie Laine in 1963 and released as a single on Columbia Records . However, the song did not become a major hit until 1964 , when Gene Pitney released his version as a single.