Westerns

Westerns. KB gets on my case about watching westerns. Well, one and only one western, Rio Bravo.

what can I say? me likey.

But...music wise...The Magnificent Seven written by Elmer Bernstein.

Brilliant. KB taught me that He was one of ones that defined the western them. When we hear those themes and think of the old west....we have Elmer to thank for that.

So, thank you. I mean it.

Jews from New York. Friggin' Brilliant.

Bernstein was born in New York City on April 4, 1922

He wrote the theme songs or other music for more than 200 films and TV shows, including The Magnificent Seven , The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments (1956), The Man with the Golden Arm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Robot Monster, Ghostbusters and the fanfare used in the National Geographic television specials. His theme for The Magnificent Seven is also familiar to television viewers, as it was used in commercials for Marlboro cigarettes. Bernstein also provided the score to many of the short films of Ray and Charles Eames.

Friggin Brilliant.

And then Billy Strange. What an odd character.

and by the way....there is a vortex in Laramie.

The real west.