"next five years. Eddy and the album spawned a number of imitators such as the Rock-A-Teens, The Fabulous Wailers, The Frantics, The Fireballs and eventually The Ventures. All songs written by Duane Eddy and Lee Hazlewood unless noted. Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel is the debut album by guitarist Duane Eddy. It was released in 1958, on Jamie Records as JLP-3000. There were five charting singles and a B-side of an additional charting single taken from this album. After releasing a couple of successful singles, Eddy released his first album, ""Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel"
"often given in the closing credits. Locations included Bishop and Lone Pine, California; an area now known as Paladin Estates between Bend and Sisters, Oregon; and the Abbott Ranch near Prineville, Oregon. The program's opening was a four-note motif composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann. For the opening theme, Herrmann reused a short sequence he had previously composed for the 1951 movie ""On Dangerous Ground"", starring Robert Ryan and Ida Lupino. The ""Have Gun – Will Travel"" theme (and fragments of incidental music also used in the television series) are featured in a chase scene across snowy fields; at the"
"35:25 mark of the film, the actual ""Have Gun – Will Travel"" opening theme is played in recognizable form, although the scoring is slightly different than that heard in the better-known television version. The show's closing song, ""The Ballad of Paladin"", was written by Johnny Western, Richard Boone, and program creator Sam Rolfe, and was performed by Western. In the first season the closing song was a reprise of the opening theme. In syndication, the first (premise) episode concludes with the Johnny Western ballad. The rest of the run of the first-season episodes play a reprise of the opening theme."
"a part of the Johnny Cash road show from 1958 until 1997. He wrote and performed the theme song ""The Ballad of Paladin"" for the CBS television program ""Have Gun – Will Travel"", with Richard Boone. In collaboration with Johnny Cash, he re-wrote the lyrics of NBC's ""Bonanza"" and the theme song, ""The Rebel - Johnny Yuma"", from the ABC series ""The Rebel"", starring Nick Adams. In October 2013, Johnny Western announced that he would stop touring and giving concerts. Western has appeared in several television programs, including the westerns, ""Have Gun - Will Travel"", ""Tales of Wells Fargo,"" ""Pony"
"Have Gun – Will Travel Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western series that was produced and originally broadcast by CBS on both television and radio from 1957 through 1963. The television version of the series was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons, and it is one of the few shows in television history to spawn a successful radio version. That radio series debuted November 23, 1958, more than a year after the premiere of its televised counterpart. ""Have Gun – Will Travel"" was created by Sam"
"Valley"", ""The Time Tunnel"", ""The Final War of Olly Winter"", and ""I Spy"". Kam Tong Kam Tong (December 18, 1906 in San Francisco – November 8, 1969 in Costa Mesa, California) was a Chinese American actor best known for his role as Hey Boy on the CBS television series ""Have Gun – Will Travel"" and as Dr. Li in the film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ""Flower Drum Song"". Kam was also a regular on the short run CBS-TV series ""Mr. Garlund"" in 1960. He appeared in many movies, often as an uncredited Chinese, Japanese, or Filipino character."
"Have Love, Will Travel ""Have Love, Will Travel"" is a 1959 song written and recorded by Richard Berry. Berry also wrote and originally performed the classic hit ""Louie Louie"". The title is a based on a popular television/radio western serial ""Have Gun, Will Travel"". In its best known incarnation, garage-rock protopunkers, The Sonics, covered the song on their 1965 album, ""Here Are The Sonics"". Driven by haphazardly recorded fuzz guitar, a big driving drum sound, screaming vocals and a dirty saxophone break, it epitomized their sound at that time. The Sonics changed the chord progression from the original G-Am-Bb-Am, a"
"Peckinpah wrote one episode, ""The Singer,"" which aired in 1958. Other notable writers who contributed an episode include Gene L. Coon, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, Laurence Heath, and Fred Freiberger. Both and were produced by Desilu Productions and later Paramount Television, which also now owns the rights to ""Have Gun – Will Travel"" through its successor company, CBS Television Distribution. The ""Have Gun – Will Travel"" radio show broadcast 106 episodes on the CBS Radio Network between November 23, 1958, and November 27, 1960. It was one of the last radio dramas featuring continuing characters and the only significant American"
"Have Gun, Will Travel (band) Have Gun will Travel is an alternative folk-rock band, launched on January 24, 2006. Based in Bradenton, Florida, they make reference to the town in several songs, including ""Salad Days"" from the album ""Postcards from the Friendly City"" (""The Friendly City"" is also a reference to Bradenton). The band has Americana, folk-rock, country music, and punk-rock influence, and has been featured in a national Chevy TV commercial, as well as the PBS series ""Roadtrip Nation"", and CBS’s ""The Good Wife"". On July 31, 2015 the band released their fifth album, ""Science from an Easy Chair"","
"Richard Boone Richard Allen Boone (June 18, 1917 – January 10, 1981) was an American actor who starred in over 50 films and was notable for his roles in Westerns and for the TV series ""Have Gun – Will Travel"". Boone was born in Los Angeles, California, the middle child of Cecile (née Beckerman) and Kirk E. Boone, a corporate lawyer. His father was a descendant of Squire Boone, brother to frontiersman Daniel Boone. His mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Russia. Richard Boone graduated from Hoover High School in Glendale, California. He attended Stanford University in Palo"
"Rolling Stones, The Masters Apprentices, Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders, Downliners Sect, and George Thorogood. ""Per liner notes"" ""Say Man, Back Again"" reached #23 on the R&B Singles chart. Have Guitar Will Travel (Bo Diddley album) Have Guitar Will Travel is the third studio album by rock and roll pioneer and blues icon Bo Diddley. It was released on the Checker Records label in 1960. The front cover of Diddley's album displays a white calling card similar to that which Richard Boone's 'Have Gun-Will Travel' character Paladin carried and gave out on every episode of the series. The location was"
"Have Guitar Will Travel (Bo Diddley album) Have Guitar Will Travel is the third studio album by rock and roll pioneer and blues icon Bo Diddley. It was released on the Checker Records label in 1960. The front cover of Diddley's album displays a white calling card similar to that which Richard Boone's 'Have Gun-Will Travel' character Paladin carried and gave out on every episode of the series. The location was Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York City The song ""Cops and Robbers"" was released as an A-side of Checker single #850 in November 1956, the B-side ""Down Home Special"" did"
"highly acclaimed by admirers of that genre of film and was praised by Harryhausen as Herrmann's best score of the four. During the same period, Herrmann turned his talents to writing scores for television shows. He wrote the scores for several well-known episodes of the original ""Twilight Zone"" series, including the lesser known theme used during the series' first season, as well as the opening theme to ""Have Gun–Will Travel"". In the mid-1960s he composed the highly regarded music score for François Truffaut's ""Fahrenheit 451"". Scored for strings, two harps, vibraphone, xylophone and glockenspiel, Herrmann's score created a driving, neurotic"
"from the ""Twilight Zone"" music library, to which CBS owned full rights, were featured repeatedly in episodes of ""CBSRMT"". The theme song and the other music was also previously used in the 1950s and 1960s in other CBS-owned radio and television dramas (""Perry Mason""; ""Rawhide""; ""The Fugitive""; ""Gunsmoke""; ""Have Gun Will Travel""; ""Suspense""; ""Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar""; etc.), in addition to ""Twilight Zone"", as it was all owned by CBS. Despite the show's title, Brown expanded its scope beyond mysteries to include horror, science fiction, historical drama, westerns and comedy, along with seasonal dramas at Christmas: ""A Christmas Carol"", starring"
"1-2m-m3-2m progression, to a basic 1-4-5-4 progression, which in G would be simply G-C-D-C. This is the version that virtually all other artists copied. Have Love, Will Travel ""Have Love, Will Travel"" is a 1959 song written and recorded by Richard Berry. Berry also wrote and originally performed the classic hit ""Louie Louie"". The title is a based on a popular television/radio western serial ""Have Gun, Will Travel"". In its best known incarnation, garage-rock protopunkers, The Sonics, covered the song on their 1965 album, ""Here Are The Sonics"". Driven by haphazardly recorded fuzz guitar, a big driving drum sound, screaming"
"C. Perry in ""The Bushido Blade"". Richard Boone died soon afterward in St. Augustine of pneumonia while suffering from throat cancer. His ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii. Richard Boone Richard Allen Boone (June 18, 1917 – January 10, 1981) was an American actor who starred in over 50 films and was notable for his roles in Westerns and for the TV series ""Have Gun – Will Travel"". Boone was born in Los Angeles, California, the middle child of Cecile (née Beckerman) and Kirk E. Boone, a corporate lawyer. His father was a descendant of Squire Boone,"
"Kam Tong Kam Tong (December 18, 1906 in San Francisco – November 8, 1969 in Costa Mesa, California) was a Chinese American actor best known for his role as Hey Boy on the CBS television series ""Have Gun – Will Travel"" and as Dr. Li in the film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ""Flower Drum Song"". Kam was also a regular on the short run CBS-TV series ""Mr. Garlund"" in 1960. He appeared in many movies, often as an uncredited Chinese, Japanese, or Filipino character. He appeared in many television shows including ""The Man from U.N.C.L.E."", ""The Big"
"wealthy rancher Sam Barton in the episode ""The Return of Dr. Thackeray"" of CBS's ""Have Gun - Will Travel"". In the segment, lead character Paladin, played by Richard Boone, comes to the assistance of a physician friend portrayed by June Lockhart. Dr. Thackeray diagnoses a cook with smallpox and worries that the disease will infect the ranch hands when Barton refuses to permit his men to be vaccinated. Singer Johnny Western, who performed the ""Have Gun - Will Travel"" theme song, appeared in this episode as an angry gunslinger. Withers also appeared in two other ""Have Gun – Will Travel"""
"the story. This theme is later echoed in the guitar and bass when the main child protagonist, Matt, uses his latent psychometric abilities. The secondary theme also concludes the series in a light jazz arrangement, establishing a lighter tone before the final twist is revealed. The musical texture was the suggestion of producer Peter Graham Scott, who, while driving to Avebury to begin filming, had heard music by Krzysztof Penderecki on the radio. Sidney Sager Sidney Sager (17 May 1917 – 3 December 2002) was an English composer, conductor and trombonist, best known for his music for television and radio."
"With Gary Burton Bob James (musician) Robert McElhiney James (born December 25, 1939) is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer. He founded the band Fourplay and wrote ""Angela,"" the theme song for the TV show ""Taxi. ""He is most famous for standards such as ""Nautilus"", ""Westchester Lady"", ""Heads"", ""Night Crawler"", ""Touchdown"", ""Blue Lick"", ""Sign Of the Times"", ""Spunky"", ""Marco Polo"", ""Courtship"" and ""Just One Thing"". Music from his first seven albums has often been sampled and has contributed to the formation of hip hop. Robert McElhiney James was born on Christmas Day 1939 in Marshall, Missouri"
"Peter Gunn (song) ""Peter Gunn"" is the theme music composed by Henry Mancini for the television show of the same name. The song was the opening track on the original soundtrack album, ""The Music from Peter Gunn"", released in 1959. Mancini won an Emmy Award and two Grammys for Album of the Year and Best Arrangement. In his 1989 autobiography ""Did They Mention the Music?"" Mancini states: The wailing alto saxophone solo was played by big band veteran and Hollywood studio stalwart Ted Nash. Mancini arranged the first single version of the song for trumpeter Ray Anthony in 1959. Recorded"
"the robbery recognized the gun and alerted authorities. On March 10th, 2017 a federal jury convicted Rich Wyatt on ten felony counts related to conspiracy, fraud and tax evasion. The jury found that Wyatt had failed to report 1.1 million dollars to the IRS. Furthermore it was revealed Wyatt had negotiated a deal with Discovery Channel when in fact he never did have federal firearms license, though instead used a straw license through Triggers a gun store in Castle Rock. Wyatt was sentenced to 78 months (6.5 years) in prison. The opening theme music is “Tallahassee” performed by Swamp Cabbage."
"Bob James (musician) Robert McElhiney James (born December 25, 1939) is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer. He founded the band Fourplay and wrote ""Angela,"" the theme song for the TV show ""Taxi. ""He is most famous for standards such as ""Nautilus"", ""Westchester Lady"", ""Heads"", ""Night Crawler"", ""Touchdown"", ""Blue Lick"", ""Sign Of the Times"", ""Spunky"", ""Marco Polo"", ""Courtship"" and ""Just One Thing"". Music from his first seven albums has often been sampled and has contributed to the formation of hip hop. Robert McElhiney James was born on Christmas Day 1939 in Marshall, Missouri to Albert Lamkin"
"preliminary rendering of the title sequence before composing this music to accompany it. Several artists have covered or parodied the music, sometimes adding lyrics to the originally instrumental work. Ramin Djawadi began composing the music for the show after he had watched the first two episodes of the series that the showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss sent him, and discussed the concepts of the show with them. According to Djawadi, the show creators wanted the main title theme to be about a journey as there are many locations, characters in the show and involves much traveling. Djawadi was"
"Herschel Burke Gilbert Herschel Burke Gilbert (April 20, 1918 – June 8, 2003) was a prolific orchestrator, musical supervisor, and composer of film and television scores and theme songs, including ""The Rifleman"" (starring Chuck Connors), ""Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater"", and ""The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor"". Gilbert once estimated that his compositions had been used in at least three thousand individual episodes of various television series. Gilbert was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Samuel Gilbert and Bertha Shevinsky, both born in Russia. At the age of nine, he began studying the violin in Shorewood in Milwaukee County. By the time"
"Alexander Courage Alexander Mair ""Sandy"" Courage Jr. (December 10, 1919May 15, 2008) was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film. He is best known as the composer of the theme music for the original """" TV series. Courage was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received a music degree from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, in 1941. He served in the United States Army Air Forces in the western United States during the Second World War. During that period, he also found the time to compose music for the radio. His"
"Nigel Colborn, Geoffrey Smith, Roy Lancaster, Peter Seabrook, Joe Swift, Ali Ward, Pippa Greenwood, Rachel De Thame, Frances Tophill, Carol Klein, Bob Flowerdew, Mark Lane, Adam Frost, Arit Anderson and John Kelly. The very first theme tune to the series in 1968 was a piece composed by Peter Craddy and played by Michael Saxton on clarinet. A year later this was replaced by the long-running ""Green Fingers"" composed by John Clarke and Reg Reid, played by Harold Rich & His Players, a version of which, with sweeping strings, was soon used. The most famous theme, which had the longest run"
"(Anna Zielinski) must find these weapons before they can be detonated. Time is of the essence; useful information is coming from Arlin Rockwell (Lee Majors), a dysfunctional arms dealer who smuggled the weapons, Jackson (Stacy Keach), a retired FBI agent, and Jack Thompson (Randy Travis), a rigid CIA Deputy Director,against a Russian-Iranian terrorist group known as The Revolution of God who put the nuclear attack plan into motion. The anti -Israeli group is under the command of Matthew Dean and a private transporter named Javad(Marco Khan). The soundtrack was written by Jeehun Hwang. Several reviewers complained about character development that"
"Earle Hagen Earle Harry Hagen (July 9, 1919 – May 26, 2008) was an American composer who created music for movies and television. His best-known TV themes include those for ""Make Room for Daddy"", ""The Dick Van Dyke Show"", ""I Spy"", ""That Girl"" and ""The Mod Squad"". He is also remembered for co-writing and whistling ""The Fishin' Hole"", the melody of the main theme to ""The Andy Griffith Show""; writing the instrumental song ""Harlem Nocturne"" used as the theme to television's ""Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer""; and co-writing the theme song to Tim Conway's Western comedy ""Rango"". Born in Chicago, Illinois,"
"Melvin Lee Davis Melvin Lee Davis is an American bass player, vocalist, keyboard player, producer, TV composer and engineer based in Orange County, California. He is the music director for Grammy-award winning artist Chaka Khan and has recorded with The Pointer Sisters, Lee Ritenour, Bryan Ferry, Patti Austin and Gladys Knight & the Pips. He co-wrote ""Soul Train's a-Comin"", the theme song for the television show ""Soul Train"". His albums, ""Tomorrow's Yesterday"" and ""Nature's Serenade"" were released through The Orchard; ""LTV: Love, Truth & Victory"" was released through P-Vine Records. Born and raised in Orange County, Melvin Lee Davis played"
"Sam Rolfe Samuel Harris ""Sam"" Rolfe (February 18, 1924 – July 10, 1993) was an American screenwriter best known for creating (with Herb Meadow) the high rated CBS television series ""Have Gun – Will Travel"", as well as his work on the 1960s NBC television series ""The Man from U.N.C.L.E."" and ""The Eleventh Hour"". Rolfe was born in New York City. He scored an Oscar nomination with his first screenplay, the Anthony Mann Western ""The Naked Spur"" in 1953. Most of Rolfe's subsequent career was spent in television, where he created and was part of the writing staff on the"
"Waco Williams""), Douglas Heyes (""The Quick and the Dead""), Marion Hargrove (""The Jail at Junction Flats"", ""Gun Shy"" and others), Howard Browne (""Duel at Sundown""), Leo Townsend (""The Misfortune Teller""), Gene Levitt (""The Comstock Conspiracy""), Leo Gordon (who also acted on the series although never in an episode that he had written; apparently the studio didn't want to foster a custom of actors writing their own scripts for television series), and George Waggner, among many others. The memorable theme song was penned by prolific composers David Buttolph (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics). Buttolph's theme first appeared as incidental music"
"players since I made ""The Thomas Crown Affair""."" The film's theme song, ""How Do You Keep the Music Playing?"", was composed by Michel Legrand with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman. In the film, the song (performed by Patti Austin and James Ingram) is first heard as Richard and Paula return to Los Angeles after their honeymoon and then subsequently heard during the closing credits. ""How Do You Keep the Music Playing?"" was nominated for an Academy Award and has enjoyed a life of its own beyond the film, becoming a popular standard and recorded by such luminaries as Johnny"