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Thread #84706 Message #3731664
Posted By: cnd
20-Aug-15 - 12:45 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Songs from How the West Was Won
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: How the West Was Won
IMDb has quite the list of songs included in the movie:
Home in the Meadow to the theme of Greensleves, sung twice: once at the intro by Debbie Reynolds, Karl Malden, Agnes Moorehead and others, and once at the end by Debbie Reynolds, George Peppard, Carolyn Jones and children
Raise a Ruckus performed by Debbie Reynolds, lyrics adapted by Johnny Mercer
A fragment of Wait for the Hoedown, sung by Reynolds again
What Was Your Name in the States? again performed by Debbie
I'm Bound for the Promised Land, with music and lyrics by Ken Darby and Robert Emmett Dolan
Shenandoah sung by Ken Darby
(Fifteen Miles On) the Erie Canal is a traditional song sung by Dave Guard and The Whiskeyhill Singers
Rock of Ages with lyrics by Augustus Montague Toplady, and performed by "all" at the Prescotts' burial
Nine Hundred Miles from Home; lyrics by Ken Darby, sung by "a Chorus"
When Johnny Comes Marching Home sung by Ken Darby
Battle Hymn of the Republic sung by "a chorus"
Come Share My Life, written and sung by Alfred Newman
On The Banks of Sacramento, music by Newman, lyrics by Darby
Overture: I'm Bound for the Promised Land/Shenandoah/Endless Prairie (possibly what Sorcha was referring to?), with music and lyrics by Darby and Robert Emmett Dolan, sung by Dave Guard & The Whiskeyhill Singers
Poor Wayfarin' Stranger sung by Dave Guard
First Kiss with music by Newman and sung by Carl Fortina
Careless Love by H.D. Handy, Martha Koenig and Spencer Williams, and sung by Judy Henske and The Whiskeyhill Singers
A Railroader's Bride I'll Be; music by Newman and sung by Judy Henske
No Goodbye written by Alfred Newman, and performed by Laurindo Almeida and Carl Fortina
Shenandoah (again), this time performed by Tommy Morgan
Miss Bailey's Ghost performed by Imogene Clark and Carl Fortina
So, in other words, just a couple songs