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20 Oct 09 - 03:54 PM (#2748932) Subject: Hopalong Cassidy From: PHJim Does anyone remember the words to this song? There's a man you've seen on the television screen Who's the man I'd like to be. He can ride and shoot and he's plaenty smart to boot That's Hopalong Cassidy. Now I am just a cowboy With neither ??????????? nor ????????? I need a man to lean upon To teach me right from wrong. I am full of pride when I'm riding by his side... |
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20 Oct 09 - 07:49 PM (#2749051) Subject: RE: Hopalong Cassidy From: deadfrett I used to enjoy reading the Clarence Mulford stories about Hoppy years ago. I didn't know he had a song. Dave |
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20 Oct 09 - 07:59 PM (#2749058) Subject: RE: Hopalong Cassidy From: BobKnight Played by Willian Boyd if I remember correctly. |
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20 Oct 09 - 08:31 PM (#2749071) Subject: RE: Hopalong Cassidy From: Martha Burns Was this a theme song to the television show? "There's a man you've seen on the television screen" seems like an odd line for a song introducing the show itself. By the way, I too was a big fan of Hopalong Cassidy and his ten-gallon hat. The show came on right at the end of my nap-time in the mid-1950s. Four o'clock, I think? By the mid-sixties I prided myself on knowing all the cowboy show theme songs by heart. There were tons of them, too. You're making me wonder, now, if I left one out. |
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20 Oct 09 - 08:53 PM (#2749081) Subject: RE: Hopalong Cassidy From: Padre Here's what I remember: There's a man you've seen on the television screen Who's the kind I'd like to be. He can ride and shoot and he's plenty smart to boot That's Hopalong Cassidy. Now I am just a cowboy, With neither aims nor goals I need a man to lean upon To teach me right from wrong. I am full of pride when I'm riding by his side, Or he spends some time with me He will be my friend until the very end That's Hopalong Cassidy |
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20 Oct 09 - 09:13 PM (#2749093) Subject: RE: Hopalong Cassidy From: kendall He originally had a limp, thus the knick name. The character was created by a Maine native. So was M.A.S.H. There is no Crabapple Cove in Maine. Just a bit of trivia. |
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20 Oct 09 - 09:14 PM (#2749094) Subject: RE: Hopalong Cassidy From: kendall Anyone remember his side kicks name? I do. |
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20 Oct 09 - 09:36 PM (#2749107) Subject: RE: Hopalong Cassidy From: catspaw49 California? Hoppy in the TV series was never big on the sidekick thing, unlike Roy and Gene and the Cisco Kid, but the only one I can recall was named California I think.......... Spaw |
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20 Oct 09 - 10:32 PM (#2749132) Subject: RE: Hopalong Cassidy From: Bill D I remember ads for "Hoppy's Favorite Milk".... in my area, it was Steffen's. I'll bet he had 'favorites' all over the country. I don't remember a theme song. |
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20 Oct 09 - 10:36 PM (#2749134) Subject: RE: Hopalong Cassidy From: Bill D HA! Many milks |
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20 Oct 09 - 10:59 PM (#2749141) Subject: RE: Hopalong Cassidy From: Martha Burns It's sure sounding like that WAS the television theme song, after all. Would someone clear that up? You've got me VERY curious, now. |
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20 Oct 09 - 11:43 PM (#2749152) Subject: RE: Hopalong Cassidy From: fumblefingers Sidekicks: Speedy McGinnis, then California Carlson. |
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20 Oct 09 - 11:45 PM (#2749153) Subject: RE: Hopalong Cassidy From: Gene Hopalong Cassidy was the western character played by William Lawrence Boyd (1895-1972)in 66 films between 1935 and 1948, the longest running series of any fictional movie character. William Boyd also made 52 half-hour television programs and 104 half-hour radio episodes that were broadcast in the early 1950s. He was one of the top box office western stars from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s. William Boyd didn't just play the part, he LIVED the part. He was loved by millions of adoring fans and was known by just one name: "Hoppy." There were many actors who played Hoppy's sidekicks, including Britt Wood, Brad King, Jay Kirby, George Reeves (later SUPERMAN on television), Jimmy Rogers (son of Will Rogers), and Rand Brooks. There were also his two main comic sidekicks: George Hayes (as Windy) and Andy Clyde (as California). Robert Mitchum also began his acting career in a Hopalong Cassidy western: BAR 20 (1943). The first time a trio of cowboys received top billing was in Hopalong Cassidy westerns. G |
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20 Oct 09 - 11:52 PM (#2749155) Subject: RE: Hopalong Cassidy From: Gene Lyrics to various Theme Songs. http://www.lyricskeeper.com/televisiontv_theme_lyrics_science_fictionwesterns_soundtrack-lyrics.htm G |
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21 Oct 09 - 12:10 AM (#2749158) Subject: RE: Hopalong Cassidy From: Martha Burns Thanks, Gene. According to the website you supplied, there's a different theme song for Hopalong Cassidy: Here he comes, here he comes There's the trumpets, there's the drums, here he comes. Hopalong Cassidy, here he comes. (humming) There he goes, on his way, Down the trail the cowboy way. Hopalong Cassidy, Hopalong Cassidy. He returns, soon again, There's no use to say goodbye until then. Hopalong Cassidy, so long Hopalong. Can someone clear up the confusion? |
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21 Oct 09 - 02:41 AM (#2749199) Subject: RE: Hopalong Cassidy From: Doug Chadwick I seem to remember, from when I was very small back in the '50s, a fragment of a song with the line "Hopalong Cassidy, cliperty cliperty clop". There was also something spoken about " Hopalong Cassidy – never kissed a girl, never shot a man". Of course, I could be mixing this up with someone else or might have dreamt it all completely. Anyway, I much preferred Roy Rogers. DC |
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21 Oct 09 - 04:07 AM (#2749231) Subject: RE: Hopalong Cassidy From: GUEST Side-Kicks Jimmy Ellison as Johnny Nelson George "Gabby" Hayes –Windy Halliday Russell Hayden as Lucky Jenkins Britt Wood as Speedy McGinnis Andy Clyde as California Carlson Brad King as Johnny Nelson Jay Kirby as Johnny Travers George Reeves as Lin Bradley Jimmy Rogers as Jimmy Rogers (Trivia Note: Jimmy Rogers was Will Rogers' son.) Rand Brooks as Lucky Jenkins Edgar Buchanan as Red Connors (1/2 hr. series for TV) Theme 1: "My Heart's in the Heart of the West" 1930's FILMS Theme 2: "Hopalong Cassidy Theme" RADIO 1948 Theme 3: "Hopalong Cassidy March" 1950 ecorded by Frank DeVol in 1952 Theme 4: "Hopalong Cassidy" Composer: Richard Rodgers 2000 1935 Film sang the song "Following the Stars" in HOP - A - LONG CASSIDY The Sportsmen Quartette with Thurl Ravenscroft: LOST CANYON (1943) - "Jingle, Jangle, Jingle" HOPALONG CASSIDY AND THE SINGING BANDIT 1946 was available with two 78 rpm or 45 rpm records. Here He Comes - Television series theme song 1949 "Hoppy, Gene and Me" - Last recording hit of Roy Rogers 1975 |
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21 Oct 09 - 04:16 AM (#2749236) Subject: RE: Hopalong Cassidy From: MGM·Lion "Anyway, I much preferred Roy Rogers." Thanks, Doug: you *Triggered* a memory of my two favourites, who just come together on my favourite piece of dialogue:— Man in bank: Are you the loan arranger? Teller: No, sir. I'm Wyatt Earp. I am thanking you & am about to kindly leave the stage... |
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21 Oct 09 - 04:26 AM (#2749241) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: Joe Offer I can't believe that Hoppy once represented 37 dairies (maybe 67), as stated in the article BillD linked to. I moved to Fresno, home of Producers Dairy, in 1976, and every carton of Producers milk had a picture of Hoppy and the slogan, "Hoppy's Favorite." It was corny back then, and I figured only a dairy in Fresno would use Hoppy as a spokescowboy. Bill's article says Producers is the only one of the original 37 still in business. We get Producers milk here in the Greater Sacramento area, and it still sports Hoppy's picture. I wonder if Hoppy's presence still sells milk, or if people ignore it. I guess I have to admit I was pleased to see Hoppy again when his milk was introduced in the Sacramento area. The things a person learns from Bill Day.... -Joe- |
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21 Oct 09 - 05:15 AM (#2749257) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: JMyer For MtheGM: Funny you should tell-er the joke about Wyatt Earp. He and I share birthdays: March 19th -- though my year is different, and maybe 6 years after his death. In fact, maybe I should have said, "I would be sharing his birthday . . . if he were still alive. JMyer MtheGM said: > Man in bank: Are you the loan arranger? > Teller: No, sir. I'm Wyatt Earp. |
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21 Oct 09 - 07:47 AM (#2749344) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: Dave Sutherland You are not mixing it up Doug, I too remember bits of that song (probably from Children's Favourites)and I was hoping that these would be the lyrics published here. |
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21 Oct 09 - 09:38 AM (#2749414) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: The Muse If anyone is interested in buying approx 50 Hopalong Cassidy videos along with other cowboy movies please let me know. Choppers |
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21 Oct 09 - 10:31 AM (#2749459) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: deadfrett I used to have a "Hoppy" radio when I was a kid. I could probobly buy a car with it now. Mulford had to clean the Hoppy charactor up with the transition to movies etc. As I recall he drank , smoked and also cussed a little in the early books, but was still good old Hoppy. I guess I'll go read them again. Thanks for the thread PHJim. Dave |
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21 Oct 09 - 11:35 AM (#2749491) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Bill D: You must have grown up in the central San Joaquin Valley. I remember Larry Shehady's Producer's Dairy in Fresno using "Hoppy's Favorite Milk" as their slogan for years. Larry's son, Rich, was a classmate at Fresno State and is now the CEO. Bill Boyd was a stage and sometime film actor in the 1930's whose career was on the decline. He had been a "matinee idol" type in some early film work, with his striking prematurely silver hair. When the Mulford stories were about to become films produced by Harry Sherman, Boyd was the actor chosen, in 1935. In the books, Cassidy was a rather untidy rascal and rather course in his behavior. However, Boyd chose to play the character as a stalwart "knight of the plains," dressed all in black with silver trim and riding a white horse (Topper). Boyd, in a daring move for the time, mortgaged everything he had in the late 1940's to buy the film rights for the "new gimmick" of television. He eventually made millions on the franchise, appearing at events all over the country and extolling the virtues of honesty and courage to youngsters. Oddly, Boyd was not especially fond of children in real life, according to those who knew him. Along with Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, he was one of the three biggest western heroes to kids of the 30's, 40's and 50's. All that said, I don't recall the song either. It must have been associated with one of his earlier films, probably at the time the "singing cowboy" movies were becoming a big deal. |
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21 Oct 09 - 11:44 AM (#2749499) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: Bill D naawww.. as I said, I think Hoppy's favorite in Wichita, Kansas was Steffen's milk. (I 'think' he once made a public appearance at the dairy there and drank some... I didn't go.) (Joe... Bill D. has a mind like flypaper. It collects a lot of stuff, but only what randomly flys (flies?) by) |
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21 Oct 09 - 12:27 PM (#2749523) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: GUEST,Young Buchan From somewhere in the primaeval swamp that is my childhood memory I seem to recall: Hopalong Cassidy got 'em on the run Hopalong Cassidy gonna get his gun. Logically it would seem better tactics to get the gun first, but that's not how I remember it! |
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21 Oct 09 - 01:09 PM (#2749551) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: Doug Chadwick I haven't found the words yet but I Googled this reference: Hopalong Cassidy, clippity, clippity, clop. Words & music: Harry Leon & Jack Henry I think it was dated about 1954. DC |
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21 Oct 09 - 01:20 PM (#2749564) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: PHJim Thanks Padre. One of Hoppy's sidekicks, Lucky, was a singer and I recall him recording a song called When I Grow Up I Want To Be Like Hoppy. When I grow up I want to be like Hoppy, Like Hoppy, like Hoppy, A real rootin' tootin' shootin' cowboy, With a bang, bang, bang and a yippee-ki-yay. I had a complete Hoppy outfit when I was a kid, with the hat, shirt, pants, (rubber)boots, spurs, guns and a scarf with a steer head woggle. I wonder what happened to it. |
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21 Oct 09 - 03:21 PM (#2749627) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: Dave Sutherland Did the chorus go something like:- "Hopalong Cassidy hand upon the gun, Hopalong Cassidy got 'em on the run, Once upon their trail the chase'll never stop, Hopalong Cassidy clipperty, clipperty, clop" ? |
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21 Oct 09 - 03:59 PM (#2749645) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: GUEST Thanks. Probably right. At least he gets the gun out first. |
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21 Oct 09 - 04:02 PM (#2749648) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: Edthefolkie I only remember what we used to sing in the playground around 1954, and some of that's gone (see the thread elsewhere about alcohol and brain size). Hopalong Cassidy clipperty clipperty clop Hopalong Cassidy clipperty clipperty clop He rides all day, he rides all night He ??????????? his guns cos HE CAN FIGHT! I'm a bit ignorant about him because lots of us Brits didn't have the goggle box in the fifties when he was on and I didn't go to the Saturday morning flicks (swot). I do remember the Lone Arranger though - he worked in the same bank as me after he hung up his mask. Always boring us to tears about Tonto. |
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21 Oct 09 - 04:03 PM (#2749652) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: kendall Lucky Jenkins is the one I was thinking of. |
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21 Oct 09 - 04:34 PM (#2749678) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Joe Offer: Didn't realize you were a "valley boy." If you remember, the most memorable thing about the Hoppy character (other than being the only good guy dressed in all-black) was the cadence and sound of Boyd's very distinctive laugh. |
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21 Oct 09 - 04:51 PM (#2749694) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: MGM·Lion "I do remember the Lone Arranger though - he worked in the same bank as me after he hung up his mask. Always boring us to tears about Tonto." Wasn't he the one who would pass over bags of half-crowns, exclaiming "Hi-ya, silver — away!' Enough to drive anybody tonto!. |
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06 Jun 10 - 10:51 AM (#2921754) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: GUEST,Geno Padre's lyrics are correct and taken from an 78 RPM record that accompanied a Hopalong Cassidy book. You listened to the record and when you heard a beep you knew to turn the page. Sorry no idea of the title. The intro song on the record was as Padre stated earlier: There's a man you've seen on the television screen Who's the kind I'd like to be. He can ride and shoot and he's plenty smart to boot That's Hopalong Cassidy. Now I am just a cowboy, With neither aims nor goals I need a man to lean upon To teach me right from wrong. I am full of pride when I'm riding by his side, Or he spends some time with me He will be my friend until the very end That's Hopalong Cassidy |
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06 Jun 10 - 10:57 AM (#2921757) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: Mr Happy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy |
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29 Sep 11 - 09:43 PM (#3231416) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: GUEST,Sue My parents have the "Singing Bandit" 78rpm record that has this song. I listened to it all the time. I think there was one other verse: "Oh he has a mind Both strong and kind And I guess that I must be Such a lucky guy With a friend as fine As Hopalong Cassidy" The character, Lucky, was singing the song. I think there may also be a different word used in the bridge (I could be wrong too): "For I am just a cowboy With neither aims or goals I need a PAL to lean upon To teach me right from wrong" |
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30 Sep 11 - 04:55 AM (#3231527) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: C Stuart Cook And the name of his horse was? Or has someone already covered that? |
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30 Sep 11 - 08:58 AM (#3231633) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: clueless don I remember being a fan of Hopalong Cassidy as a young boy (me, not Hopalong.) I had a plastic model (they weren't called "action figures" back then) of him and his horse. One of his characteristics was that even though he was a "good guy", he dressed all in black. On my model, over the years the black paint slowly chipped off of his hat, until it was all white. I wonder if it was lead-based paint? That would explain a lot. I don't remember thinking about "Hoppy" in the same breath as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. I do remember that I preferred Roy to Gene. Don |
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30 Sep 11 - 12:07 PM (#3231731) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: John on the Sunset Coast I can't believe I missed this topic first time around, being as I'm a big B-Western fan...even preparing a proposal for a class on the genre (not to be taught by me). There is a bit of misinformation about the films posted back then, none serious, but for the record. The series is not considered a "trio series" in the accepted meaning of that term. They are Hoppy films. William Boyd as Hoppy always got top billing, with his sidekicks getting lesser billing. The Hoppy character was clearly the boss (usually the foreman). In the typical trio series--The Three Mesquiteers being the longest running--the characters were basically co-equals, as was the billing. Often two were romantic rivals, and the third was somewhat of a comic figure. Regarding Robert Mitchum: he did appear in about a half dozen Hoppys in 1943, the first being Hoppy Serves a Writ. But his first confirmed film role--by mere days according to release figures--was The Human Comedy, a very touching film of WWII on the homefront. Mitchum, by the way, was slated to replace Tim Holt in the Zane Grey western series at RKO, but his fine notices in The Story of GI Joe rescued him from the oblivion of the B-Western. Other well known actors who early played in Hoppy films were George (Superman) Reeves, Duncan (Cisco Kid) Renaldo and Lee J. Cobb (once billed as Lee Colt!). I don't know if anyone mentioned it above, but running concurrent with the TV half hours there was a a Hopalong Cassidy weekly radio show. |
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30 Sep 11 - 04:34 PM (#3231875) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: GUEST FWIW "Hoppy" milk was marketed by the Sorge Dairy in eastern Wisconsin |
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30 Sep 11 - 05:29 PM (#3231898) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: Rog Peek Don't remember the song, but certainly remember Hopalong films at 'Saturday morning pictures' in the local ABC cinema in the fifties. Like MtheGM, I was a bigger fan of Roy Rogers. Rog |
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30 Sep 11 - 06:51 PM (#3231937) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: PHJim Hoppy's horse was named Topper. |
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26 Dec 11 - 04:47 PM (#3280294) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: GUEST,dan I think a variation on part of the song is: For I am just a cowboy A ridin' on the trail I need a pal to lean upon To teach me right from wrong |
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26 Dec 11 - 04:57 PM (#3280298) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: GUEST,999--from LyricsPlayground HOPALONG CASSIDY From "Hopalong Cassidy & The Singing Bandit" Record Reader (1950) (Billy May / Alan Livingston) Rand Brooks - 1950 There's a man you've seen on the televison screen Who's the kind I'd like to be He can ride and shoot, and is plenty smart to boot That's Hopalong Cassidy I am full of pride when he's ridin' by my side Or he spends his time with me He will be my friend until the very end That's Hopalong Cassidy For I am just a cowboy With neither aim nor goal I need a pal to lean upon To teach me right from wrong Oh, he has a mind both strong and kind And I guess that I must be Such a lucky guy with a friend as fine As Hopalong Cassidy (Transcribed by Mel Priddle - December 2005) |
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27 Dec 11 - 05:32 AM (#3280436) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: GUEST,banjoman I was an avid follower in my younger(much) days. I seem to recall that at the end of each TV show, Hoppy would give some sort of talk and said that the name Hoppy stood for " Help Other People ???" sorry the rst is lost in the mist of time . Can anyone else remember? |
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04 Feb 12 - 03:28 PM (#3302209) Subject: Lyr Add: HOPALONG CASSIDY THEME From: Jim Dixon The Hopalong Cassidy theme appears on 3 albums: TV Theme Songs of the Past (Big Eye Music, 2009) Western TV Themes (Big Eye Music, 2010) TV Themes of the '50s & '60s (Big Eye Music, 2009) I listened to all of them on Spotify and they sound identical. I assume they were recorded right from the TV. Here's what I hear: Here he comes; here he comes. There's the trumpets; there's the drums; here he comes. Hopalong Cassidy, here he comes. Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, [etc.] [break*] There he goes, on his way, Down the moonlit trail to where cowboys sway(?). Hopalong Cassidy, Hopalong Cassidy. He'll return, soon again. There's no use to say goodbye until then. Hopalong Cassidy—so long, Hopalong. [* There seems to be a break in the middle where one recording is quickly faded out and another faded in. I'm guessing the part before the break came at the beginning of each program and the rest at the end.] |
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05 Feb 12 - 09:09 AM (#3302468) Subject: RE: lyr/info req: Hopalong Cassidy From: GUEST,Beachcomber I have a memory of a travelling show coming to my little village away back in the late 40s. It was called the "Maskot Kinema" and their posters (handwritten) were misspelled as well. They showed only silent movies in the tent with it's timber side walls, and stayed for a week or so. At the time there was no electricity in our area and they had a diesel generator which powered the projector and gave them a better lighting than we locals had. The one film that sticks in my memory was "The Last Days of Pompey" starring William Boyd ! The only other title I can remember was "The Doctor's Sacrafise (sic)". Oh , and the company's mother played the piano accompaniment. Talk about Magic Lantern. They were an English family with a boy around my age (72 now) but I cannot remember the name. The funny part is that we had had several "modern" picture shows with talkies before that. Wonder if anybody remembers them or similar shows ? |