Top 20 Spaghetti Western Songs

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One of my favorite songs :joy:

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Here’s my edited list now only containing songs with vocals:

  1. Johnny Hamlet - Find a Man
  2. Massacre time - Back home someday
  3. Texas adiós - Texas Goodbye
  4. A Pistol for Ringo - Angel Face
  5. 7 Dollars on the Red - A Man Must Fight
  6. Django
  7. Johnny Yuma
  8. Ringo and His Golden Pistol
  9. A coffin for the sheriff - A lone and angry man
  10. Arizona colt - Man from nowhere
  11. The return of Ringo
  12. The Big Gundown - Run Man Run
  13. For a Few Dollars More - Eye for an Eye
  14. They call me Trinity - Trinity titoli
  15. Django, prepare a coffin - you’d better smile
  16. A few dollars for Django - a deadly morning
  17. Ben and Charlie - let it rain, let it pour
  18. Blood for a silver dollar - A man, a story
  19. Killer caliber 32. - amica mia
  20. Mannaja - Snake
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Thanks for this. :+1:

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I found the version of A Gringo Like Me from the film on YT, so it must be on some record. Apparently sung by someone called Dicky Jones. In the SWDb it says that this is Peter Tevis though (but it doesn’t sound like him).

  • Song: “A Gringo Like Me” sung by Peter Tevis [as Dicky Jones]
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I hear Maurizio Graf :open_mouth: Could it be him, but low-quality mic?

I also think it sounds like a mix of Tevis&Graf, but made with AI :joy:

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There was a guy called Dickie Jones, but it’s probably not the same one.

From Wikipedia:

Richard Percy Jones (February 25, 1927 – July 7, 2014), known as Dick Jones or Dickie Jones, was an American actor and singer who achieved success as a child performer and as a young adult, especially in B-Westerns. In 1938, he played Artimer “Artie” Peters, nephew of Buck Peters, in the Hopalong Cassidy film The Frontiersman. He is also known as the voice of Pinocchio in Walt Disney’s film of the same name.

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In the credits the names Dan Savio and Leo Nichols appear, both are Morricone himself and he used these for other SWs as well, as you probably know. :smile:

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My top 20 (all are the main vocal theme from the film unless said otherwise):

  1. Day of Anger
  2. The Good The Bad and The Ugly - Ecstasy of Gold
  3. The Big Gundown
  4. Run Man Run
  5. The Return of Ringo
  6. Massacre Time
  7. Silver Saddle
  8. Sabata
  9. The Forgotten Pistolero
  10. Johnny Hamlet - Find A Man
  11. Few Dollars for Django
  12. A Lone and Angry Man
  13. Any Gun Can Play - Stranger
  14. Once Upon A Time in the West - Final Duel
  15. The Return of Sabata
  16. Kill The Wicked
  17. My Name is Pecos
  18. Killer Caliber 32
  19. Arizona Colt
  20. 10,000 For A Massacre

Honorable mentions:

  • The Man Who Cried For Revenge
  • Django
  • A Fistful Of Dollars
  • Cemetery Without Crosses - Rope and A Colt song
  • Death Rides A Horse
    *Texas Addios

Very hard to choose a top 20 as I’d say there are more SWs with amazing soundtracks than there are with bad soundtracks. My actual order isn’t that specific, it’s more of a general favourite 20. I’m also a fan of the cheesy lyrical opening title songs.

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This one is rather unusual for a SW, more like a catchy pop song, from Djurado (1966).

And this one is good even though the lyrics are a bit misogynic, very spaghetti-esque with the screams. From Those Dirty Dogs (1973).

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Do you think this one is cheesy?

It’s from $100,000 for Ringo (1965). Composed by Bruno Nicolai. Sung by Bobby Solo, he is also a bit Elvis-esque.

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From Euro-western Hannie Caulder (1971), not bad I think.

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This is a great one, in my opinion

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And I’m waiting for the day when someone puts this banger on their Top 20 SW Songs list :laughing: I think it’s been more featured on the Worst SW soundtracks thread :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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It’s unusual. but I like it. :grin:

And I had no idea there was a Worst SW Song-thread, but I checked and you’re right. :sweat_smile:

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Black artist Don Powell did several SW songs. There is an English guy by the same name but he is another person, he was the drummer for the band Slade.

From Discogs about the SW Don Powell:

American vocalist, pianist and actor born in 1936, Los Angeles, CA, USA and died in 1995, Udine, Friuli Venezia-Giulia, Italy.

Powell arrived in Italy in the early 60s as an Archie Savage ballet’s conductor. At the end of the tour, he settled in Rome and founded The King’s Men Orchestra with whom he performed with great success at some of the most important Italian clubs, both as singer and pianist. His first single in Italy was Com’È Grande Questa Casa Senza Te / Mani Fredde, two romantic songs well suited to the deep, warm tones of his voice. He later worked with the Parade label, where the released several 7" with music from Spaghetti Western movies, for composers such as Marcello Giombini, Carlo Savina and Nico Fidenco.

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Who is the singer?

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Two very underrated SW themes, at least in my opinion:

Francesco de Masi - Ringo, Mark of Vengeance

Vasco & Mancuso - I am Sartana, Your Angel of Death

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