Songs From The Western Screen...Tex Ritter.

I wonder if the first track on this L/P could be the Origin of the "Yee Ha"...that we always seem to think about shouting when a CW track get's played ?

Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter (January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974) was an American country music singer and actor. In 1936, Ritter moved to Los Angeles. His motion picture debut was in Song of the Gringo (1936) for Grand National Pictures. He went on to appear in 70 movies as an actor, and 76 on movie soundtracks. He attracted special attention in 1952 for his rendition of "The Ballad of High Noon" over the opening credits of the celebrated film High Noon, and later sang it at that year's Academy Awards ceremony, where it won Best Original Song.

Ritter's recording career was his most successful period. He was the first artist signed with the newly formed Capitol Records in 1942.

Ritter became one of the founding members of the Country Music Association in Nashville, Tennessee, and spearheaded the effort to build the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum into which he was inducted in 1964.

       1. The Bandit.