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“GUNSLINGER”
“Gunslinger, Gunslinger where do you ride, what do you fight for today?
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When folks need a hand you’re on their side. Gunslinger ride away. You let someone else be the first one to draw, on your speed you depend. And there are times when your gun’s the only law, fighting to help a friend.
Gunslinger.Gunslinger, will you return or meet your end.
Gunslinger ride on,
Gunslinger ride away.”
The Frankie Laine-sung theme (music and lyrics by Dimitri Tiompkin and Ned Washington) was the opening to one of the shortest lived TV westerns, “Gunlinger”…12 episodes aired on CBS from 2/9/61-5/18/61.
However, Tony Young was extremely popular, especially with the female audience, and the series has built up a certain cult status over the ensuing years, although only a few episodes are available on video.
The frontier just after the Civil War was the setting for the black and white one hour series filmed at MGM which starred Young