Hell Bent for Leather!

Hell Bent for Leather!
Studio album by Frankie Laine
Released	c. October 1961 [1]
Genre	Western
Length	30:11
Label	Columbia
Producer	None listed
Frankie Laine chronology
Frankie Laine, Balladeer (1959) Hell Bent for Leather! (1961) Deuces Wild (1961)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Billboard	[3]

Hell Bent for Leather! is a studio album by Frankie Laine released in 1961 on Columbia Records, featuring contemporary western songs. The instrumental and vocal accompaniments were arranged by John Williams. ^[4]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Wanted Man"	Bob Hilliard L. Pockriss	2:37
2.	"High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)"		2:24
3.	"Gunfight at O.K. Corral"		2:09
4.	"Bowie Knife"		2:54
5.	"Along the Navajo Trail"		2:30
6.	"The Cry of the Wild Goose"		2:54

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Rawhide"		2:00
2.	"City Boy"		2:39
3.	"Cool Water"	B. Nolan	2:50
4.	"The 3:10 to Yuma"		2:25
5.	"The Hanging Tree"	M. David J. Livingston	2:17
6.	"Mule Train"	J. Lange H. Heath F. Glickman	2:32

Charts

Chart (1961)	Peak position
UK Albums (OCC) [5]	7
U.S. Billboard Top LP's — 150 Best Selling Monaural LP's [6] [7]	71

References

1. Billboard October 23, 1961
2. Frankie Laine - Hell Bent for Leather!. AllMusic . Retrieved January 6, 2023.
3. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. April 3, 1961. pp. 22–.
4. "Frankie Laine - Hell Bent For Leather!". Discogs . Retrieved January 6, 2023.
5. "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
6. Joel Whitburn (2006). The Billboard Albums: Includes Every Album that Made the Billboard 200 Chart : 50 Year History of the Rock Era. Record Research Incorporated. p. 581. ISBN   978-0-89820-166-6.
7. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. December 4, 1961.