Artist	Song
Elmer Bernstein	The Magnificent Seven (Theme)
from Great Composers: Elmer Bernstein (1999)
Ennio Morricone	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (The Good the Bad and the Ugly)
from Ennio Morricone: Film Music Maestro (2007)
Billy Strange	Bonanza
from Great Western Themes (1996)
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra & Erich Kunzel	William Tell Overture: Finale (Lone Ranger Theme)
from Round-Up (2006)
Frankie Laine	Theme from Rawhide
from The Best of Western Movie Themes (2007)
Frankie Laine	High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) [Re-Recorded]
from The Best of Frankie Laine (Re-Recorded Versions) (2007)
Billy Strange	Hang 'Em High
from Great Western Themes (1996)
Bruce Broughton	Main Theme (From "Silverado")
from The Wild West - The Essential Western Film Music Collection (1999)
Various Artists	The Big Country - Main Title
from Cinema Century: A Musical Celebration of 100 Years of Cinema (2005)
Johnny Western	The Ballad of Paladin
from Television Themes 16 Most Requested Songs (1994)
Ennio Morricone	Once Upon a Time In the West (Once Upon a Time In the West)
from Ennio Morricone: Film Music Maestro (2007)
John Barry	The John Dunbar Theme
from Dances With Wolves (2004)
Marty Robbins	El Paso
from The Essential Marty Robbins (2005)
Ennio Morricone	Per un pugno di dollari
from The Original Masters: Spaghetti Western, Vol. 1 (2007)
Johnny Cash	The Rebel - Johnny Yuma
from Television Themes 16 Most Requested Songs (1994)
Gene Autry	Back In the Saddle Again
from Gene Autry: His Greatest Hits (Re-recorded Version) (2006)
Sugo Music Artists	The Rifleman
from Wild Wild West (2005)
Mitch Miller	The Yellow Rose of Texas
from Greatest Hits (1999)
Fess Parker	Ballad of Davy Crockett
from Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 3: Americana (1990)
Richard Markowitz	Theme (From "The Wild Wild West")
from The Wild West - The Essential Western Film Music Collection (1999)
Ennio Morricone	Per qualche dollaro in più
from The Music of Italy: Cinema Italiano - Ennio Morricone, Vol. 2 (2008)
John Raitt	Oklahoma! - Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'
from Oklahoma! (2002)
Glen Campbell	True Grit
from Glen Campbell: All The Best (2003)
Michael Tilson Thomas & San Francisco Symphony	Rodeo: Hoe-Down
from Classic Library Series: Copland: Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid & Rodeo (2005)

Comment:

The West, particularly the romanticized West of our imagination, Zane Grey novels, and Hollywood cowboy epics, inspired some of our most talented musicians to set themselves a task thorny as a Saguaro cactus: capture that huge and majestic territory in sound. Some, like Elmer Bernstein in "The Magnificent Seven," made it appear even larger than life, while others, such as singing cowboys Gene Autry (in "Back in the Saddle Again") and Roy Rogers (in "Happy Trails"), took the micro view, with the West reduced to a campfire, a sagebrush, and a hot cup of joe after a long day of cattle punching.

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