Hell Bent for Leather!

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Hell Bent for Leather!
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Studio album by
Releasedc. October 1961 [1]
Genre Western
Length30:11
Label Columbia
Producer None listed
Frankie Laine chronology
Frankie Laine, Balladeer
(1959)
Hell Bent for Leather!
(1961)
Deuces Wild
(1961)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Billboard Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [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]

Contents

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Wanted Man"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.TitleWriter(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"2:17
6."Mule Train"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

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References

  1. Billboard October 23, 1961
  2. Frankie Laine - Hell Bent for Leather!. AllMusic . Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  3. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 3 April 1961. pp. 22–.
  4. "Frankie Laine - Hell Bent For Leather!". Discogs . Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  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. 4 December 1961.