Lyr Req: Hopalong Cassidy (theme song)

Subject: Hopalong Cassidy Lyrics
From: Rasener
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 04:26 PM

A friend of mine has given me a poser. I can't find the answer, but you mudcatters, I am sure will be able to answer this one.
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Friends came over the othere night and we were reminiscing.
The subject of William Boyd and the old hopalong cassidy films came up and in turn the lyrics to the song.
ive searched and found lyrics to the tv series and they are differant from what i remember of the films.

i seem to remember singing..........

hopalong cassidy, clipperty clipperty clop. hopalong cassidy, clipperty clipperty clop, he rides by day he rides by night. his hands on his guns cause he can fight..........

End of quote

I have told him that he is confusing it with Mule Train, but he has kicked that into touch and is adament that their are lyrics to Hopalong Cassidy that have the above words in.

So to shut him up and prove him wrong can anybody help me please.

All he can find is the following lyrics. So don't feed this info back as he already has them.

Here he comes, here he comes
There's the trumpets, there's the drums, here he comes.
Hopalong Cassidy, here he comes.

humming to tune

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.

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 05:03 PM

Hopalong Cassidy got them on the run
Hopalong Cassidy hand upon his gun
Once he's on the trail, you bet he'll never stop
Hopalong Cassidy, clippety clippety clop.

That's what my Granny used to sing.
John

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Mudlark
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 06:17 PM

Pretty lousy lyrics in either case for my Hero, Hoppy. (Now that I think about it, "Hopalong" isn't exactly brilliant cowboy material either...sounds more like the name for an Easter Rabbit.)

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: BuckMulligan
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 06:56 PM

Hopalong, as created by Clarence Mulford was a grizzled cowboy, not at all the debonair, dude in black portrayed by William Boyd. The "real" Hoppy had been seriously wounded in a gunfight, and walked with a permanent limp (he had to "hop along"); in the Boyd movies, the limp disappeared after a couple of films, I think.

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Snuffy
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 06:56 PM

Never heard your version, Villan, but the clippety clop one was played on Childrens Favourites quite a lot in the 50s

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Blackcatter
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 09:04 PM

Hello all, here's what I know about lyrics to the show/movie:

I have not been able to find lyrcis to the themes for the movie serials, unfortunately.

Hopalong Cassidy began with William Boyd's purchase of his own previous Western serial adventures for license to television, and was expanded into new adventures filmed for TV. The original library of 66 feature films made between 1935 - 48 was edited into 30-minute and 60-minute lengths for television. In 1952, Boyd produced another 52 episodes distributed for syndication by NBC Films.

There were at least three themes for the TV show, though as far as I've been able to determine only one had lyrics. That one was writting for the TV show and post-dated the movie serials. See below:

Theme 1: "My Heart's in the Heart of the West" - Composers: Leslie Barton [pseudonyum of Sam Coslow], and Victor Young. This was the theme music for at least some of the movies. I have not determined if it had lyrics, but it seems unlikely.


Theme 2: "Hopalong Cassidy Theme" - Composer: Albert Glasser. Once again, there's no evidence that this theme had lyrics either.


Theme 3: "Hopalong Cassidy March" - Composers: music by Nacio Herb Brown and music and lyrics by L. Wolfe Gilbert and William Boyd. This is the theme most associated with the TV show and the one with the lyrics listed above (and the ones on my website Blackcatter's TV Theme Lyrics - Hopalong page

Hope this helps.

Blackcatter

Subject: Lyr Add: MULE TRAIN (Lange, Heath, Glickman)
From: Blackcatter
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 09:23 PM

By the way, here's the lyrics to Mule Train


-Artist: Frankie Laine as sung on "Mairzy Doats 44 Wacky Hits"
-MCA Records MSD2-35180/GMD 80041
-peak Billboard position # 1 for 6 weeks in 1949
-competing versions charted by Bing Crosby (#4), Tennessee Ernie Ford (#9),
-Vaughn Monroe (#10), and Gordon MacRae (#14)
-sung by Vaughn Monroe in the movie "Singing Guns" and by Gene Autry in "Mule Train"
-nominated for an Academy Award
-Words and Music by Johnny Lange, Hy Heath, and Fred Glickman


(Hyah, hyah)

Mule train!! (Hyah, hyah)
Mule train!!
Clippety cloppin' over hill and plain
Seems as how they never stop, clippety clop, clippety clop
Clippety, clippety, clippety, clippety, clippety cloppin' along

There's a plug o'chaw tobacky for a rancher in Corona
A ghee-tar for a cowboy 'way out in Arizona
A dress of calico for a pretty Navajo
Get along, mule! , get along

Mule train!! (Hyah, hyah)
Mule train!!
Clippety cloppin' o'er the mountain chain
Soon they're gonna reach the top, clippety clop, clippety clop
Clippety, clippety, clippety, clippety, clippety cloppin' along

There's some cotton thread and needles for the folks in way-out-yonder
A shovel for a miner who left his home to wander
Some rheumatism pills for the settlers in the hills
Get along, mule!! , get along


Mule train!! (Hyah, hyah)
Mule train!!
Clippety cloppin' through the wind and rain
They'll keep goin' till they drop, clippety clop, clippety clop
Clippety, clippety, clippety, clippety, clippety cloppin' along

There's a letter full of sadness trimmed with black around the border
A pair of boots for someone who had them made to order
A bible in the pack for the Reverend Mr. Black
Get along, mule! , get along

Get along, mule, get along!! (mule train)

(Hyah, hyah)
(Hyah, hyah)

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: kendall
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 10:28 PM

I believe Hopalong Cassidy was create by a guy from Maine, as was the author of M.A.S.H.

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Rasener
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 11:46 PM

Blimey I didn't expect such a quick response. Many thanks and keep it coming.

John are you able to expand on that?

At least at the moment my friend will be able to rest in his bed knowing that his long term memory hasn't let him down. :-)

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: dianavan
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 12:00 AM

Who cares about Hopalong! The Cisco Kid was my favorite but I can't remember the tune. All I can remember is the ending. "Oh, Cisco."

"Oh, Pancho." This is definitely thread drift. Sorry about that.

d

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Rasener
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 12:04 AM

You are forgiven :-)

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Padre
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 12:16 AM

I had a Hopalong Cassiday record album which had a song on it that was sung by a young sidekick of HC named 'Lucky' The words went something like this:

"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 he's plenty smart to boot,
That's Hopalong Cassiday

BRIDGE:
For I am just a cowboy, with neither aims nor goals
I need a pal to lean upon, to teach me right from wrong

I am full of pride when he's riding by my side
Or he spends some time with me
He will be my friend until the very end
That's Hopalong Cassiday."

Another sign of a mispent youth?

Padre

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Rasener
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 12:25 AM

:-)

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Art Thieme
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 12:44 AM

I had that whole Hopalong Cassidy outfit. The black shirt and pants, the white hat, the neckerchief with the cow skull slip-thing. And both my brother and I had Hoppy bedspreads. I wore that outfit for 3 or 4 consecutive Halloweens I think. The cap pistol got me lots o' trick-or-treat candy. I was nine, ten and eleven --maybe twelve too in 1949 to '53. My dad died when I was five and I went into a depression that was probably why I was one of the few kids who flunked and had to repeat Kindergarten. I think it was the adventures with Hoppy that pulled me out of it.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Art Thieme
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 12:47 AM

NECKERCHIEF !! Is that a real word? I seem to remember that's what we called it.

Art

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Blackcatter
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 01:23 AM

Hey there,

Do you prefer to be refered to as "The Villan," "Villan," or "The?"


TV Theme lyrics is something I know a fair bit about.


Padre - do you know the approximate age of that album? I think the lyrics are worth putting on my site.


Art - How many years did you go trick-or-treating? My mom made me stop by 11. Never was a cowboy of any sort - though a couple years ago I dressed as the first lines of The Joker. . .

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Rasener
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 01:37 AM

Blackcatter
Whatever is easiest. A lot of people tend to do Vill - nice and short.

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Art Thieme
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 01:54 AM

Blackcatter,

I lived in a 14 story building (but no 13th floor) with 3 tiers of elevators. On Halloween the kids really tied up the elevators. The stairs were pretty crowded too. We never bothered to go outside when it was cold---unless we went to another highrise. --- This was walking distance from Wrigley Field. -------- I'm 62 now and I went trick-or treating last year--------------------with my granddaughter. ;-)

Art

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Blackcatter
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 02:16 AM

Ah, that's cool. I'm 37. My mom decided 11 was old enough, which was annoying because only 2 years before, we figured out that we could get one of the parents to drive a bunch of us kids to the wealthier neighborhoods a few miles away to get better loot.

My dad lived in Chicago until 1955. He lived walking distance to Comiskey. He went there a lot too. He wouldn't allow me to visit Wrigley while he was still alive, and even though he passed 13 years ago, I still haven't been. It's one of only 5 current parks I haven't seen an MLB game in.

By the way, my dad's favorite cowboy was William S. Hart from the silent screen. Mine is Clint, though I have a picture of Roy Rogers holding me when I was 4 or so. And I still have the autographed photo of Bill Hart my dad received circa 1920.

Wow - talk about thread drift. . .

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Rasener
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 02:29 AM

You bet :-)

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Blackcatter
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 02:43 AM

Here's an old thread about TV Western themes:

Songs from TV Westerns

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Mr Happy
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 03:42 AM

Clint Eastwood- The Anagram: Ted Slowaction!!

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 03:54 AM

But back to Hopalong Cassidy. When I lived in Fresno (the armpit of California) in the late 1970's, the local Producers Milk was labelled "Hoppy's Favorite," and his picture was every carton. The last time I looked at a carton was not all that long ago - and Hoppy was still there.
Is Hopalong Cassidy still a hot property?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Little Robyn
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 05:59 AM

I can only remember the last 2 lines -
He can ride and fight for everything that's right
That's Hopalong Cassidy.
Or something like that.
Robyn

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: kendall
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 07:17 AM

I preferred Gene Autry. He could sing.

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Mr Happy
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 07:22 AM

didn't Roy Rogers sin too?

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Mr Happy
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 07:24 AM

i regularly perform one of his biggest hits: 'Four Legged Fiend'

Subject: Lyr Add: RAWHIDE (Washington/Tiompkin)
From: Mr Happy
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 07:35 AM

Here's another of those old time tv theme songs I enjoyed:

"Rawhide"

music by Dimitri Tiompkin
with lyrics by Ned Washington

(Performed by Frankie Lane)




Keep movin', movin', movin',
Though they're disapprovin',
Keep them dogies movin', rawhide.
Don't try to understand 'em,
Just rope 'em, throw, and brand 'em.
Soon we'll be livin' high and wide.
My heart's calculatin',
My true love will be waitin',
Be waitin' at the end of my ride.


Move 'em on, head 'em up,
Head 'em up, move 'em on,
Move 'em on, head 'em up, rawhide!
Head 'em out, ride 'em in,
Ride 'em in, let 'em out,
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in, rawhide!


Keep rollin', rollin', rollin',
Though the streams are swollen,
Keep them dogies rollin', rawhide.
Through rain and wind and weather,
Hell bent for leather,
Wishin' my gal was by my side.
All the things I'm missin',
Good vittles, love and kissin',
Are waiting at the end of my ride.


Move 'em on, head 'em up,
Head 'em up, move 'em on,
Move 'em on, head 'em up, rawhide!
Head 'em out, ride 'em in,
Ride 'em in, let 'em out,
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in, rawhide!
RAWHIDE!!!



yee-hah!!

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 08:18 AM

Neckerchief - shouldn't it be bandanna? Albeit originally from the Anglö-Indian, it was used for the cowboys' neckgear, too, so I am told.

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Padre
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 08:41 AM

Blackcatter - I'd guess the album dated from about 1950-51.

Padre

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 08:45 AM

Yep when I was in the Boy Scouts it was called a neckerchief.
John

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: IanC
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 09:26 AM

Neckerchief ... think Neck-Kerchief as in Hand-Kerchief.

:-)

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Rasener
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 10:14 AM

Rawhide
I also like the Blues Brother version.

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Blackcatter
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 11:01 AM

Neckerchief or bandana - both were common names when I was a kid.

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Blackcatter
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 11:02 AM

neckerchief:

\Neck"er*chief\, n. [For neck kerchief.] A kerchief for the neck; -- called also neck handkerchief.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Wesley S
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 11:37 AM

When in doubt try www.hopalongcassidy.com

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Blackcatter
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 12:02 PM

Attractive site, but it appears to be primarily for the selling of merchandise. I didn't see any lyrics. There's a midi of the theme song, but when I tried to open it, it crashed my system.

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 01:59 PM

still have my Hoppy cereal bowl, though the picture at the bottom is a little faded

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Little Robyn
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 02:34 PM

Mr Happy Roy Rogers didn't do a lot of sinning - he was the good guy, but he certainly was a prolific singer along with his wife Dale.
Robyn

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Joybell
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 06:06 PM

"Neckerchief" here too. I still call them that. I had a Hopalong Cassidy outfit too, Art, with a cap pistol and all. I was five at the time. My dad converted my tricycle into a horse with legs down alongside the wheels. I wanted to be a cowBOY until I was about 13. Joy

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Allan C.
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 06:26 PM

For most of my years I always sorta figured that if it was around your neck, it was a neckerchief. If it was used for nearly any other purpose, be it as a mask, tournequet, washcloth or blindfold, it was referred to as a bandana. If a woman wore it for decorative purposes only, it was a kerchief or scarf. That was then and this is now. The definitions seem to have broadened a lot. Ah, but what can you expect from a language that now has dictionaries that define "infer" and "imply" interchangeably.

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Blackcatter
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 07:26 PM

Yeah - you cam be infer a dollar, but not imply for a dollar - that'd be silly.

If the basic form is kerchief, one around the neck a neckerchief, & when used by the hand a handkerchief, what about the following:

For the nose: sneezkerchief
For hiding your face for stage holdups: thiefkerchief
tournequet: leakerchief
headscarf: dookerchief
waving goodbye from a ship: departkerchief
lady dropping it on floor to attract a man's attention: flirtkerchief
as a gay dating signal in the back pocket: hunkerchief

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: dianavan
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 08:47 PM

This is definitely thread drift but I have to tag on to the discussion about handkerchief and neckerchief.

My daughter and I were grabbing a bite to eat while waiting for a train in Genoa. It was late but we found a little restaurant within walking distance that had an Italian/English menu. I told my daughter I would like to try the 3rd item on the menu and waited for her response. The English translation said, "Handkerchief with slick!'

d

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Blackcatter
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 09:23 PM

dianavan - for goodness sake - what was it actually?!

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 09:56 PM

The Chef's Special for tourists?

I have a Hopalong Cassidy fishing rod. Picked it up at a yard sale for $5. I hated Hopalong. My brothers and I had a daily battle over Magic Cottage and Hopalong Cassidy which usually ended with Mom turning off the TV.

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Blackcatter
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 10:30 PM

Art - don't know how big the grandkid(s) is/are, but I might have found this year's Hallowe'en costumes:

Boys outfit

Girls outfit

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Mudlark
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 03:13 AM

I saw an excellent documentary on Hoppy not too long ago. The claim was that Wm Boyd took his role as Hoppy very seriously, knew he was a role model for kids, and never did anything (in public, anyway) to tarnish that image. He rode in the Rose Parade until in his 70's or 80's, astride Topper (who apparently lived to an increbibly venerable age) and seemed in all things to be a genuinely honerable human being and all around mensch.

Hoppy was certainly my hero. I never missed a program, sitting on the floor in front of our humongous TV set with an 8 inch screen. I thot Topper was the most beautiful horse I'd ever seen, and that Lucky was very handsome (the sidekick Snuffy, or whatever his name was, seemed thrown in for comic relief). For a long time I wanted to be a cowboy when I grew up. My cowboy boots, hat and cap pistols (with holsters) were my most prized possessions. Though I prayed fervently, my parents refused to buy me a horse, or even a pony and their reasons, that we lived in an upstairs duplex and couldn't afford it, seemed weak and trifling in the face of my desperate need.

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: EBarnacle
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 09:27 AM

I met him once. He came to an event at the strip mall near my house in the late 50's. I recall being disappointed that his outfit was actually a dark blue instead of black, as it appeared on TV. I recently found a copy of a Hopalong Cassidy book, obviously meant for youth audience. It's the only one I've ever seen, so it is set aside for Gabriel.

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: dianavan
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 11:21 AM

Blackcatter - It was lasagna with basil. The best we could figure was that it might have come from a dictionary, ie: to wave a handkerchief (lasagna being wavy) and basilic (slick) - I really have no idea. Maybe it was a joke someone played on the owner. We were very tired and although we tried very hard not to be rude, we could not stop laughing. I'm sure everyone thought we were completely nuts.

d

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Blackcatter
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 11:50 AM

thanks. I love those imperfect and downright bad translations around the world.