His Best
Tex Ritter
Release Date: 2007
From the CD:
Tex Ritter was a major star, with his own series of western films starting in 1936, and for the next decade he was one of the screen’s most popular western stars. He made 85 movies, 78 of which were westerns.
When the era of Singing Cowboy films came to an end, Ritter continued with his career in music, and over the next two decades he was a consistent hit maker, charting 25 hits in Billboard Magazine.
Tex Ritter was the first western performer voted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame.
Includes the Tex Ritter classics “High Noon,” and “(I Dreamed Of A) Hill-Billy Heaven.”
All tracks were recorded for Jimmy Wakely’s Shasta Records label.
TRACK LISTING
1. High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)
2. Green Grow The Lilacs
3. Have I Stayed Away Too Long?
4. The Gallows Pole
5. The Fool’s Paradise
6. The Boll Weevil
7. Cielito Lindo
8. Conversation with A Gun
9. The Keeper Of The Keys
10. (I Dreamed Of A) Hill-Billy Heaven