Here’s my list. I’m not 100% sure of the order but you’ll get some idea
Massacre time - Back home someday
Too much gold for one gringo (main theme)
For a few dollars more - sixty seconds to what
Arizona colt - Man from nowhere
A pistol for Ringo - Angel face
They call me Trinity - main theme
A coffin for the sheriff - a lone and angry man
Django (main theme)
The good, the bad and the ugly (main theme)
The return of Ringo (main theme)
Django, prepare a coffin - you’d better smile
A few dollars for Django - a deadly morning
I am Sartana, your angel of death (main theme)
A sky full of stars for a roof (main theme)
Django the bastard (main theme)
Ben and Charlie - let it rain, let it pour
Blood for a silver dollar - A man, a story
Killer caliber 32. - amica mia
Apocalypse Joe (main theme)
They call him Cemetery (main theme)
At the moment I’m absolutely in love with the main theme banger from Johnny Yuma though I haven’t watched the film yet.
Honorable mentions that are between the lines in my top 20 list:
-Ecstasy of gold (tgtbatu)
-The forgotten pistolero (main theme)
-Keoma (main theme)
-Snake (mannaja)
-Harmonica’s theme (ouatitw)
edit: I completely forgot Texas goodbye from Texas, Adiós That song is definitely in my top 5, can’t believe I forgot it
Regarding Django, there is an italian version as well and I think the singing is better by Roberto Fia, not so Elvis-esque as the one with Rocky Roberts and it suits the song better, (I have nothing against Elvis otherwise).
Regarding SW songs with vocals I like Morricone’s Run Man Run (from The Big Gundown) with Maria Cristina Brancucci. (But I don’t like the boring SW Run Man Run).
Regarding The Price of Gold from Kill The Wicked! I think it is OK for a SW song with vocals, but what I really like is the rest of the soundtrack by Lavagnino. I have the CD and most of the songs are very special with slow usually guitar or flute based themes creating a special mood or atmosphere. Also Lavagnino’s music especially for Requiem For a Gringo is very nice.
I nominate the main theme Sandstorm from Requiem For A Gringo as the SW top song with vocals including words (even if it could have been without vocals).
But if you accept vocals without words, then Morricone’s Ecstasy of Gold should be unbeatable !
Thanks @Sombrero, there’s definitely a little cheese to some of them, but the singers did do their best with a music style they were unfamiliar with at the time. As long as no one’s intentionally hamming it up, I’m OK with it. Maurizio Graf and Raoul sometimes put a little too much into their songs, but otherwise I don’t mind the majority of their work.
The guy whose version of A Gringo Like Me that ended up in the film’s opening and closing credits instead of Peter Tevis’s version didn’t have a good singing voice at all. Not sure where he was dug up at, but whoever picked him had no ear for music.
This singer Raoul, he did a lot of SW songs, more than I realized.
I checked the SW database but there’s no info on the man only the songs he did. But I found some info elsewhere on the internet. Apparently he was an actor as well.
From Discogs:
Real Name: Ettore Raoul Lovecchio
Italian singer and actor.
He was often called on for solo-singing on soundtracks in the late 1960s. After he had left the genre then became an actor during the 70s.
He was seen as the owner of a boutique for Oriental fashion in Rome.
Also known as Raul or Raoul Lo Vecchio.
That song is definitely in my top 5, can’t believe I forgot it
