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He got ritter that feller

January 30th, 2009 in Country, Cowboys and Indians, Illustration by lpcoverlover | 5 Comments

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“Blood on the Saddle” Tex Ritter   Capitol Records   Listen as Tex really slows down and stretches out the lyrics on this baby.   Nice pulp Western painting on the cover.

John Ritter’s pappy was well suited to the role of singing cowboy. He looked and acted the part and was singing the type of songs he loved best.   Although Ritter’s films never had the production values of films starring Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, he still enjoyed considerable success at the box office.

In 1942, after a decade of recording with little success, Ritter became one of the first artists signed by the newly formed Capitol Records. He soon began scoring major hits with records such as “Jealous Heart,” “ Rye Whiskey,” “I’m Wastin’ My Tears on You,” and “You Will Have to Pay.” Ritter would record for Capitol for the rest of his life.

In 1952, Ritter recorded the movie title-track song “High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlin’) which became a hit. He sang “High Noon” at the first Academy Awards ceremony to be televised in 1953, and it received an Oscar for Best Song that year.

He achieved significant success with “Jingle, Jangle, Jingle,” and in 1944, he scored another hit with “I’m Wastin’ My Tears On You,” which hit #1 on the country charts and #11 on the Pop charts. “There’s A New Moon Over My Shoulder” was a country charts #2 and Pop charts #21. In 1945, he had the #1, #2 and #3 songs on Billboard’s “Most Played Jukebox Folk Records” poll, a first in the industry. Between 1945 and 1946, he registered seven consecutive Top 5 hits, including “You Two Timed Me One Time Too Often,” a country #1 which spent eleven weeks on the charts.   In 1948, “Rye Whiskey” and his cover of “Deck Of Cards” both made the Top 10 and “Pecos Bill” reached #15. In 1950, “Daddy’s Last Letter (Private First Class John H. McCormick)” also became a hit.

Tex bit the dust in 1974.

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  1. #1 Way Back Now! Lets Go... says:
    January 30th, 2009 at 11:42 pm

    This cover design is a premium example of fine album art. I could fill this whole page telling you why but I’ll let it speak for itself. Although I’ll briefly say,”this one is most pleasing to the eye”.

    Thank you Mr. Coverlover for making a wonderful presentation. Now I’m going to have to dig this one up and give it a good long listen.

    While Tex sings I’ll watch the cover and be there.

    Mean while back at the saloon…

    A young pup limped up to the bartender and asked,

    “I want to see the man who shot my paw!” HE-HAW!

  2. #2 Gabbi says:
    January 31st, 2009 at 12:15 am

    Perfect that ‘Blood on the Saddle’ should be in pink.

    Thank you for posting this!

  3. #3 Frank Verplanck says:
    January 31st, 2009 at 5:43 pm

    There was a band in the mid-eighties called Blood on the Saddle that played a fusion of punk and country music. The cover of their album “Fresh Blood” might be a contender for inclusion on the site. It features a drawing of a skeleton driving a pink Cadillac convertible across the desert.

  4. #4 David Cavlovic says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 6:57 am

    Both Ritters died of a heart attack. Ah, genetics.

  5. #5 Retro Hound says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 10:23 am

    I’d like to find a copy of this. This is one great album cover. My 13 year old reads a lot of westerns and I know he’d get a kick out of this.

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