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Home Add Document Sign In Register. Television Westerns: Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders Home Television Westerns: Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders. Television Westerns Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders Alvin H. Marill THE SCARECROW PRESS Author: Alvin H. DOWNLOAD PDF. Marill THE SCARECROW PRESS, INC. Marill All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Marill, Alvin H. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN hardback : alk. Western television programsβUnited States. W4M38 No one who grew up in the fifties, sixties, or seventies could forget what an impact they had on our young lives.
Taming the lawlessness of Dodge City. The Western speaks to Americans in a particular way: our rebellious spirit, our sense of adventure, our love of the land, our longing to see and traverse those mountains, rivers, and plains that were a part of the pioneer experienceβand to imagine what it must have been like in those more primitive and rambunctious times as our young country was finding its way.
The TV Western was our guide. Just thinking about that era brings literally dozens of great theme songs to mind. Nobody thinks of the William Tell Overture as the start of a Rossini opera anymore. And that was just the beginning. The popularity of those early themes helped to motivate producers searching for just the right song to introduce their Western heroes to television audiences. They encouraged songwriters to create faux cowboy ballads, thus giving us the memorable vocal themes for Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Rawhide, The Rebel, Daniel Boone, Branded, and the Warner Bros.
