Bonanza-Maverick-The Rebel-Bat Masterson-Gunsmoke-Wagon Trail-Wyatt Earp-Have Gun Will Travel- Rawhide(Medley)/O Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie-Red River Valley-Home On The Range-Whoopie Ti Yi Yo- Tumbling Tumbleweeds(Medley)/The Yellow Rose Of Texas/Wagon Wheels/Riders In The Sky/Cool Water/The Last Roundup/Arkansas Traveller-The Devil’s Dream-Chicken Reel-Thunder Hornpipe-Paddy Whack-Pop Goes The Weasel-Miss McCloud’s Reel-Turkey In The Straw-Stop Buck-Soldier’s Joy-The Rakes Of Mallow- Lamplighter’s Hornpipe(Medley)
Pops Roundup was the Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra’s first chart album of popular music and includes many well known TV western themes of the time. (US:29)
“Arthur Fiedler was neither a great conductor nor a top-notch musicologist. But he had a great sense of his audience and what worked with them, and he understood how his orchestra could deliver the musical goods.”
“Includes the theme songs for a variety of Westerns that I remember from high school. They got me jazzed up then, and recall neat memories even now.”
“Although maestro Fiedler didn't only perform popular tunes, that's what he and the Pops were known for. And this was always my favourite album. The two special medleys, Pops Hoe-Down and the title piece, are beautifully done. You’ve got to love the sound effects on the former.”
“The LP contains many of the old favourite western songs I grew up listening to. Hearing them with such wonderful orchestration was a joy.”
“The quality is outstanding and the performance is perfect. It sounds a lot like a film score to me but I like things like that from time to time.”
“The Pops Orchestra effectively conjures up childhood images and dreams of the old west; cowboys, gunfighters and pioneers.”
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