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DreamGypsy

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3. Maybe when they write history with theme songs by Frankie Laine...

Reply to legcramp (Original post)

Sun Oct 27, 2013, 12:08 AM

Oct 2013

...then I'll choose the facts instead of the fiction.

I must have been about 6 years old when I saw the movie, screenplay by Leon Uris, music by Dmitri Tiomkin. The song was branded into my brain...along with a few other radio hits, like The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (sung by Gene Pitney).

And then there was Marty Robbins' classic - the theme from The Alamo

Ah, the days of boyhood, when complete ignorance really was bliss.

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