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With the rusty door-hinge of a voice he possesses today, it's hard to imagine a time when Clint Eastwood could have been groomed as a singing star, but in the early ‘60s, when he came to fame as the rebellious Rowdy in the hit Western TV series Rawhide, it wasn't such a crazy idea. In 1963, playing off the popularity of the show, Cameo-Parkway released an album featuring Eastwood's versions of classic cowboy-style tunes. While Eastwood is admittedly not an exceptional vocalist, he's not at all bad; this is by no means some Golden Throats-style celebrity train wreck. At the time, there were plenty of equally photogenic young men with no greater vocal ability than Eastwood being promoted as country singers, many with less of an actual musical background than the jazz-schooled actor. Eastwood's soft, somewhat laconic croon might not possess the commanding quality that was de rigueur for the era's country stars, but he never strays off-key, and his style is a kind of cross between legendary cowboy singer Roy Rogers and Dean Martin. Most of the tunes he tackles here were already well-known in hit versions by other artists -- the Sons of the Pioneers' "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," Bob Wills' "San Antonio Rose," Gene Autry's "Mexicali Rose," etc. The loping rhythms, lonesome harmonica, lazy guitar licks, and male backing-vocal choruses are all in keeping with the production conventions of the day for cowboy artists. A couple of non-LP singles sweeten the pot, including the written-to-order "Rowdy," intended as a sort of theme song for Eastwood's Rawhide character. While Cowboy Favorites didn't make Eastwood a C&W star, it wasn't his country music swan song -- years later he would record with Merle Haggard and sing in the films Paint Your Wagon and Honky Tonk Man.
© J. Allen /TiVo
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Bob Hillard, ComposerLyricist - Clint Eastwood, MainArtist - Steve Nelson, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2010 ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
Edwina Coolidge, ComposerLyricist - Clint Eastwood, MainArtist - AL DUBIN, ComposerLyricist - Will Grosz, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2010 ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
B. Hill, ComposerLyricist - Clint Eastwood, MainArtist
℗ 2010 ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
Joel Herron, ComposerLyricist - Clint Eastwood, MainArtist
℗ 2010 ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
Jack B. Tenney, ComposerLyricist - Helen Stone, ComposerLyricist - Clint Eastwood, MainArtist
℗ 2010 ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
Bramlett, ComposerLyricist - Clint Eastwood, MainArtist - Harlington, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2010 ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
Clint Eastwood, MainArtist - Vernon, ComposerLyricist - Bradley, ComposerLyricist - Ingles, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2010 ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
Clint Eastwood, MainArtist - BOB NOLAN, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2010 ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
Sidney D. Mitchell, ComposerLyricist - Clint Eastwood, MainArtist - Louis Alter, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2010 ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
Clint Eastwood, MainArtist - Bob Wills, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2010 ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
Clint Eastwood, MainArtist - C. Porter, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2010 ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
S. Wooley, ComposerLyricist - Clint Eastwood, MainArtist - H. Escamellia, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2010 ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
Clint Eastwood, MainArtist - James Lee Turner, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 ABKCO Records Inc.
Clint Eastwood, MainArtist - Ben Raleigh, ComposerLyricist - Artie Wayne, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2010 ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
Album review
With the rusty door-hinge of a voice he possesses today, it's hard to imagine a time when Clint Eastwood could have been groomed as a singing star, but in the early ‘60s, when he came to fame as the rebellious Rowdy in the hit Western TV series Rawhide, it wasn't such a crazy idea. In 1963, playing off the popularity of the show, Cameo-Parkway released an album featuring Eastwood's versions of classic cowboy-style tunes. While Eastwood is admittedly not an exceptional vocalist, he's not at all bad; this is by no means some Golden Throats-style celebrity train wreck. At the time, there were plenty of equally photogenic young men with no greater vocal ability than Eastwood being promoted as country singers, many with less of an actual musical background than the jazz-schooled actor. Eastwood's soft, somewhat laconic croon might not possess the commanding quality that was de rigueur for the era's country stars, but he never strays off-key, and his style is a kind of cross between legendary cowboy singer Roy Rogers and Dean Martin. Most of the tunes he tackles here were already well-known in hit versions by other artists -- the Sons of the Pioneers' "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," Bob Wills' "San Antonio Rose," Gene Autry's "Mexicali Rose," etc. The loping rhythms, lonesome harmonica, lazy guitar licks, and male backing-vocal choruses are all in keeping with the production conventions of the day for cowboy artists. A couple of non-LP singles sweeten the pot, including the written-to-order "Rowdy," intended as a sort of theme song for Eastwood's Rawhide character. While Cowboy Favorites didn't make Eastwood a C&W star, it wasn't his country music swan song -- years later he would record with Merle Haggard and sing in the films Paint Your Wagon and Honky Tonk Man.
© J. Allen /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:37:32
- Main artists: Clint Eastwood
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: ABKCO (US)
- Genre: Blues/Country/Folk Country
© 2010 ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. ℗ 2010 ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
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