Help ID a few songs? Randy Boone on the Virginian

Subject: Help ID a few songs?
From: GUEST,justcurious
Date: 23 Mar 11 - 10:45 AM

I'm trying to figure out the names of a few songs sung by Randy Boone in the TV series The Virginian, and I thought somebody here might recognize them. First, the last number in this video medley of songs - it starts at about eleven minutes in.

Then two songs from this video - the one that begins at about 5:05, and the last one that begins at about 9:26.

The red titles on the videos, by the way, are episode titles.

Subject: RE: Help ID a few songs?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Mar 11 - 11:16 AM

Okay, I managed to find one of them on my own - the first one from the second video is a variation on 'Pretty Saro.' Still in the dark on the other two.

Subject: RE: Help ID a few songs?
From: maeve
Date: 23 Mar 11 - 11:34 AM

I can't listen to the links you posted right now. I hope this helps. Here's a list of song titles from an LP of Randy Boone songs:
SHADOW MOUNTAIN......ANYTHING LOVE CAN BUY........MEDICINE BOW.....TENNESSEE STUD............WALK BY THE RIVER........THE CATTLE CALL..........I LOVE MY WILLIE......BANKS OF THE OHIO.........PRETTY SARO....YONDER MOUNTAIN........JUST WAITIN'..........LONESOME TREE
Found here:http://www.amazon.com/SINGING-VIRGINIAN-RANDY-ROBERTA-SHORE-VINYL/dp/B002H0YH3C

Subject: RE: Help ID a few songs?
From: GUEST,justcurious
Date: 23 Mar 11 - 02:50 PM

Yes, I've seen that album...none of the titles seem to match up.

Subject: RE: Help ID a few songs?
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Mar 11 - 03:37 PM

The first one sounds like a variation of THIS. If you do a search on Mudcat for Girl I Left Behind, you will get a bunch of threads to check for more info and also some very different songs/tunes, but this is the version closest found on google.

Subject: RE: Help ID a few songs? Randy Boone on the Virginian
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Mar 11 - 11:29 PM

Hey! Randy Boone is still at it. Check out THIS SONG. I like it, very much!

Subject: RE: Help ID a few songs? Randy Boone on the Virginian
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Mar 11 - 02:47 PM

'The Girl I Left Behind' seems to be a match - funny that the title is so similar to 'The Girl I Left Behind Me' when the songs are entirely different.

The last song is still a mystery?

By the way, would anybody happen to know the name of Roberta Shore's solo from the first video (beginning around 2:45)? I'm trying to make up my mind whether it sounds like a traditional song or not.

Subject: RE: Help ID a few songs? Randy Boone on the Virginian
From: GUEST,justcurious
Date: 30 Mar 11 - 05:25 PM

Figured out the mystery song (not Roberta Shore's solo but the other) with the help of BMI...it's "Wanderin' Wonderin'," written by Randy Boone.

Subject: RE: Help ID a few songs? Randy Boone on the Virginian
From: GUEST,Bob M
Date: 07 Apr 11 - 11:27 AM

A GROUP OF aussie sheep=herders de-trained in Medicine Bow to
fight a range war with cowboys near Shilow.As they rode through town slowly they sang this haunting and sad ballad. Randy observed this and copies it that night in camp. I would like the title please.

A

Subject: RE: Help ID a few songs? Randy Boone on the Virginian
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Apr 11 - 01:07 PM

Bob M, I've never heard of a "Shilow" in WY, near Medicine Bow, or anywhere else. Can you provide a source and any more information, please?

Subject: RE: Help ID a few songs? Randy Boone on the Virginian
From: maeve
Date: 07 Apr 11 - 01:15 PM

Shiloh, perhaps?

Subject: RE: Help ID a few songs? Randy Boone on the Virginian
From: maeve
Date: 07 Apr 11 - 01:21 PM

Please ignore that last.

Some information here: http://www.tvparty.com/recvirginian.html

Subject: RE: Help ID a few songs? Randy Boone on the Virginian
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Apr 11 - 02:15 PM

The episode with the sheepherders was 'Day of the Scorpion.' The song you were asking about is heard in this video, beginning at about 3:05, and later reprised by Randy Boone at about eight minutes into this one.

Subject: RE: Help ID a few songs? Randy Boone on the Virginian
From: maeve
Date: 07 Apr 11 - 04:10 PM

Ah! Now that I hear it (thanks, Guest), I know what the song is. That's "click Go the Shears"!

Digital Tradition Link, right here at Mudcat

Subject: RE: Help ID a few songs? Randy Boone on the Virginian
From: GUEST,justcurious
Date: 07 Apr 11 - 04:44 PM

Whoops...seems I forgot to put in a guest name a couple of times. :) This identify-the-song game is rather fun!

Subject: RE: Help ID a few songs? Randy Boone on the Virginian
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Apr 11 - 08:03 PM

Kewl!

Subject: RE: Help ID a few songs? Randy Boone on the Virginian
From: GUEST,Helen Dunnahoo
Date: 16 Apr 11 - 11:27 AM

One of the songs was "Well What do you Know" which is about how you expect one thing to happen but another thing happens. It is really a cute song with a lot of verses to it.

Subject: RE: Help ID a few songs? Randy Boone on the Virginian
From: GUEST,justcurious
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 08:38 PM

Do you mean "Wouldn't You Know?" (Here, at 11:20.) I like that one too! I still can't make out the entire last verse because of the dialogue in the scene. According to BMI the song was written by Randy Boone & Irwin Coster.

Subject: RE: Help find music? Randy Boone on the Virginian
From: GUEST,Marie C
Date: 04 May 11 - 04:12 AM

I am trying to locate some of Randy Boone's albums for my father who is a fan of his and loves watching the Virginian. Can anyone help me out, even some album names would be helpful.

Subject: RE: Help ID a few songs? Randy Boone on the Virginian
From: GUEST,justcurious
Date: 07 May 11 - 12:03 PM

You can actually get CD copies of a couple from James Drury's website: http://thevirginian.net/pages/music.aspx. There are a few LPs on Ebay and similar places.

Subject: RE: Help ID a few songs? Randy Boone on the Virginian
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jun 11 - 11:02 PM

I am looking for the lyrics for a song sang in season4 ep.24...
"Rivers flow, birds fly away...
Sometimes I wonder why I stay...
That dusty road just seems to say...
I'll be movin' on someday"

Can anyone help me out?????

Subject: RE: Help ID a few songs? Randy Boone on the Virginian
From: GUEST,justcurious
Date: 29 Jun 11 - 01:32 PM

I like that one too. This is all I could find about it: there are two songs written by Randy Boone in the BMI database that seem to match the lyrics - one is 'Rivers Flow' and the other is 'Sometimes I Wonder.' Could be either, or those could even be two different versions of the same song - your guess is as good as mine.

In the episode it seemed to be just a fragment of a song; I've always wondered what the rest of it was like.