[78-L] High Noon..3 versions? Not so fast, cowboy! Wait - do I hear 5?

[David Lennick]

Wal, shee-yit, podnuh!

dl

On 6/23/2011 6:22 PM, Rodger Holtin wrote:
> Am I the only one with a copy of the one he made with Stan Kenton?
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> Rodger
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> For Best Results use Victor Needles.
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> --- On Wed, 6/22/11, Cary Ginell<soundthink at live.com>  wrote:
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> From: Cary Ginell<soundthink at live.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] High Noon..3 versions? Not so fast, cowboy!
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2011, 8:06 PM
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> 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."
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> Cary Ginell
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>> 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?
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>> This from a British magazine, "The Gramophone Record", September 1952 (not to
>> be confused with The Gramophone):
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>> "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."
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>> News to you? Does this mean there are three Ritter versions of "High Noon"
>> (Original Capitol, English Decca/Capitol, overdubbed US Capitol)?
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>> dl
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