[78-L] High Noon..3 versions? Not so fast, cowboy!

[Cary Ginell]

Wait, keem-o-sabe, there are FOUR! Ritter re-recorded the song for Jimmy Wakely's Shasta Records label on the LP "Saturday's Heroes" about 20 years later. Unfortunately it has a background of syrupy synthesizers and a thudding electric bass behind him. Tex doesn't sound so bad for being in his sixties. He sings different lines for the first verse: Instead of "I do not know what fate awaits me," he sings "Oh, the noonday train will bring Frank Miller."

Cary Ginell

> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:56:13 -0400
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-L at 78online.com
> Subject: [78-L] High Noon..3 versions?
> 
> This from a British magazine, "The Gramophone Record", September 1952 (not to 
> be confused with The Gramophone):
> 
> "Caught with his spurs down by the unexpected success of his soundtrack 
> rendering of High Noon, Tex Ritter, whose Capitol discing of the tune was made 
> with normal studio accompaniment, was immediately contacted on arrival in 
> London and rushed up to Decca;s studios to rerecord the song with the gimmick 
> background as in the film. Enjoying big sales here (CL 13778), the record was 
> shipped to the States...and immediately banned by AFM chief Petrillo! Loath to 
> let a good thing go and with their star 6000 miles away, Capitol compromised by 
> dubbing in tom-toms over the original recording."
> 
> News to you? Does this mean there are three Ritter versions of "High Noon" 
> (Original Capitol, English Decca/Capitol, overdubbed US Capitol)?
> 
> dl
> 
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