Name your favorite Western movie Score(s)

[Harley Starr]

No Western is complete without some good music to help move things along.

Although there are a few that didn't need much music at all, and they got along just fine.

How many favorites can you name?

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Two come righ to mind .....

The Wonderful Country ( one of my favorites) with its odd score of (I believe) indigent instruments ...

The Commancheros for its over-the-top testosteronic (is that a word) score ...

[Daniel Nighteyes]

I going to primarily stick to Western movie theme songs, because the full score doesnt always match the quality of the theme.

The Magnificent Seven

Red River (its also the melody to "My Rifle, My Pony and Me" from Rio Bravo

The Searchers

Shane

And, believe it or not, Blazing Saddles.  Its a great B Western theme (thank you, John Morris) and one of Frankie Laine's best efforts

I could probably think of some more, but these'll do for now.

[Will Ketchum]

The ones that come to mind are High Noon and the various instrumentals on Clint Eastwood's Spaghetti Westerns.

Will Ketchum

[Daniel Nighteyes]

The ones that come to mind are High Noon and the various instrumentals on Clint Eastwood's Spaghetti Westerns.

Will Ketchum

I like Frankie Laine's rendition of the High Noon theme much more than Tex Ritter's.  Unfortunately, the Tex Ritter version is the one used in the movie.

[Major 2]

I'm with Dan

The Magnificent Seven

Red River (its also the melody to "My Rifle, My Pony and Me" from Rio Bravo

The Searchers

But I'll add

Lomesome Dove ( Duvall & Tommy Lee Jones )

Alamo The Price of Freedom ( I'm very partial to this  Merrell Jenson's Score)

[Will Ketchum]

I like Frankie Laine's rendition of the High Noon theme much more than Tex Ritter's.  Unfortunately, the Tex Ritter version is the one used in the movie.

Daniel, I agree but since the theme of the thread is for the movies I list it because I like it.  I like the lyrics better on the Lane version.  There is an interesting story on the Internet that I read regarding the changes made in the lyrics for the movie.  It was a sign of the times.  I tried to find this reference but couldn't in a quick search.

Will Ketchum

[Daniel Nighteyes]

Daniel, I agree but since the theme of the thread is for the movies I list it because I like it.  I like the lyrics better on the Lane version.  There is an interesting story on the Internet that I read regarding the changes made in the lyrics for the movie.  It was a sign of the times.  I tried to find this reference but couldn't in a quick search.

The story I heard, from O.J. Sikes, is that Ritter recorded the song for the movie, but that there were no plans for public sale of the recording until they heard that Frankie Laine was going to record and release it.  Then they rushed back into the studio and re-recorded it, making some changes to the lyrics in the process.

[Forty Rod]

I going to primarily stick to Western movie theme songs, because the full score doesnt always match the quality of the theme.

The Magnificent Seven

Hands down best overall. It even sold a lot of cigarettes over the years.

[panhead pete]

Howdy All,

I have two that come to mind instantly.  The "Long Riders", very period sounding guitar work by Ry Cooder.  But my favorite is "The Big Country".  The AMC channe lmovie guy/host called it instantly recognizable. 

Regards,

Panhead Pete

[The Elderly Kid]

For sheer, over-the-top bombast, "How the West Was Won." But I really love the score to "The Wild Bunch," especially the haunting music as the camera pans over the shot-up town after the climactic gunfight, with the wind blowing and Deke Thornton sitting on the ground at the town gate. Also, the use of period Mexican songs like "La Golondrina" and "Adelita" was outstanding.

[Deadeye Dick]

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Theme has to be my all time favorite. You just can't beat the Clint Eastwood spaghetti western's themes.
Deadeye Dick

[Daniel Nighteyes]

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Theme has to be my all time favorite. You just can't beat the Clint Eastwood spaghetti western's themes.
Deadeye Dick

I agree that its probably the most easily-recognized Western theme.  Recognized, that is, AS a Western theme.  Probably the most recognizable theme, though, is The Magnificent Seven.  That's because, as 4 T Rod mentioned, it became the theme song for Marlboro cigarettes.

[Mogorilla]

Had the them to the MAgnificent Seven as my ring tone on my first Cell phone.  Problem was I never wanted to answer it, just let it play out.   My vote goes the Magnificent Seven with the good the bad and the ugly 2nd. 

[Harley Starr]

If you haven't seen All The Pretty Horses, then get the soundtrack for it. It's a soundtrack that's very haunting and beautiful.
Track 1, Cowboy's Dream just recently became one of my favorites.

[FEATHERS]

My favorite for a western (eastern) is from The Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day Lewis.Feathers

[Harley Starr]

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Theme has to be my all time favorite. You just can't beat the Clint Eastwood spaghetti western's themes.
Deadeye Dick

Anytime Leone paired up with Morricone on a movie, that's when their talents really resonated.

[PABLO DEL NORTE]

    THE SONG IN "RIO BRAVO"--  "MY RIFLE, MY PONY & ME" & THE THEME SONG SUNG BY  DINO ALSO.

ALSO THE MUSIC FROM THE MANIFICENT SEVEN, THE WONDERFUL COUNTRY, & THE THEME FROM THE GOOD, BAD, & UGLY

[Daniel Nighteyes]

  THE SONG IN "RIO BRAVO"--  "MY RIFLE, MY PONY & ME" & THE THEME SONG SUNG BY  DINO ALSO.

Believe it or not, that melody was first used in the theme song of Red River, another John Wayne classic.  Both movies were directed by Howard Hawks, and both music scores were by Dmitri Tiompkin.

[PABLO DEL NORTE]

   THANKS, NIGHTEYES! NOW I KNOW WHICH MOVIE TO LOOK FOR ON PAYDAY