Songs of the West (Burl Ives album)

1961 studio album by Burl Ives

Songs of the West

Studio album by

Burl Ives

Released| 1961
Genre| Country Western
Length| 32:23
Label| Decca

Songs of the West (Decca DL 4179, 1961) is one of the several albums from the early 1960s that signalled Burl Ives's move away from folk music into country western and pop. In Ives's discography this album is immediately preceded by The Versatile Burl Ives! and followed by It's Just My Funny Way of Laughin', two Decca albums containing songs ("A Little Bitty Tear", "Call Mr. In-Between" and "Funny Way of Laughin'") that earned Ives his highest rankings on Billboard's pop, country, and easy-listening charts.[1]

Songs of the West is an album of twelve "Cowboy" songs.[2] As the back of the album cover states, "[The songs] span the gamut of western music from the time-honored Cowboy's National Anthem, 'Home on the Range,' which dates back to the 1870s, through the western classics ..., to the years of western music's peak popularity -- represented here by songs by Billy Hill ... -- and finally on to 'My Adobe Hacienda' and 'Jingle Jangle Jingle,' two popular hits that have been adopted into the repertoires of almost all western music enthusiasts."[3]

## Track listing

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### Side 1

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Track | Song Title | Writer/Composer[4] | Length

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1. | Home on the Range | Brewster Higley, Daniel Kelley | 2:26
2. | When the Bloom Is on the Sage | Nat Vincent, Fred Howard Wright | 2:10
3. | Cool Water | Bob Nolan | 3:54
4. | Empty Saddles | Billy Hill | 2:39
5. | Mexicali Rose | Helen Stone, Jack Tenney | 2:25
6. | The Oregon Trail | Peter de Rose, Billy Hill | 2:31

### Side 2

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Track | Song Title | Writer/Composer | Length

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1. | The Last Round-Up | Billy Hill | 4:02
2. | O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie | Traditional | 2:19
3. | Cowboy's Dream | Traditional | 2:58
4. | Tumbling Tumbleweeds | Bob Nolan | 2:14
5. | My Adobe Hacienda | Louise Massey, Lee Penny | 2:27
6. | Jingle Jangle Jingle | J.J. Lilley, Frank Loesser | 2:13

## References

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1. ^ Allmusic: Burl Ives: Charts & Awards: Billboard Singles: link
2. ^ Library of Congress Catalog: LCCN 93718570: link.
3. ^ Burl Ives, Songs of the West, Decca DL 4179, 1961.
4. ^ Burl Ives, Songs of the West, Decca DL 4179, 1961. Information about the writer/composer of each song can be found on the record label.

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Burl Ives

Albums|

* Okeh Presents the Wayfaring Stranger (1941)
* The Wayfaring Stranger (1944)
* The Return of the Wayfaring Stranger (1949)
* Historical America in Song (1950)
* Christmas Day in the Morning (1952)
* Down to the Sea in Ships (1956)
* Burl Ives Sings... For Fun (1956)
* Australian Folk Songs (1958)
* Little White Duck (1959)
* The Versatile Burl Ives! (1961)
* Songs of the West (1961)
* It's Just My Funny Way of Laughin' (1962)
* Sing of Faith and Joy (1963)
* America's Musical Heritage (1963)
* Animal Folk (1963)
* Scouting Along (1964)
* Pearly Shells (1964)
* Chim Chim Cheree (1964)
* Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
* Have a Holly Jolly Christmas (1965)
* The Times They Are a-Changin' (1968)
* Christmas at the White House (1972)
* Christmas by the Bay (1977)

Singles|

* "Blue Tail Fly"
* "Foggy Dew"
* "The Wayfaring Stranger"
* "Lavender's Blue"
* "The Big Rock Candy Mountains"
* "Riders in the Sky"
* "On Top of Old Smoky"
* "The Wild Side of Life"
* "A Little Bitty Tear"
* "Funny Way of Laughin'"
* "Chim Chim Cher-ee"
* "A Holly Jolly Christmas"

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* List of works by Burl Ives

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