Songs Of The West, Vol. 4: Movie & Television Themes -
CD
Has Ballad of Paladin
Treasury
of the West, Vol. 1 - 2 CDs
Western Music CDs
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Have Gun Will Travel Theme Song "Ballad of Paladin" by Johnny
Western, Richard Boone, and Sam Rolfe
Performed by Johnny
Western
Have Gun Will Travel reads the card
of a man.
A knight without armor in a savage land.
His fast gun for
hire head's the calling wind.
A soldier of fotune is the man called
Paladin.
Paladin, Paladin Where do you roam?
Paladin, Paladin, Far,
far from home.
He travels on to wherever he must;
A chess knight of
silver is his badge of trust.
There are campfire legends that the plainsmen
spin
Of the man with the gun,
of the man called Pa-l-l-l-l-a-din
Have Gun Will Travel Tidbits
Paladin (Richard Boone) is a
West Point educated gentleman with a taste for fine wines and foods. Based at
the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco, he was a man for hire.
Paladin would
do anything for those in serious need. He read the newspapers from across the
country and sometimes sent his calling card to those he felt might use his
services as gunfighter, bodyguard or anything else that his skills could
accomodate. His fee to those who could pay was $1,000.
While at the
hotel, he dressed the dandy. But for work, he was a man in black.
He
carried a Colt .45 revolver in a holster with a white knight (the Paladin) on
it and a small derringer under his gunbelt.
Kam Tong, who usually
delivered the message from a potential client, was replaced by Lisa Lu as Hey
Girl for one season ('60-'61) because Tong had a more substantial role in the
show The Garland Touch. He returned to HGWT when Garland failed.
Richard Boone exercised a lot of creative control on this show and his
judgements paid off. HGWT ranked in the Top 4 shows for four years running -
and for three of them, it placed #3 behind
Wagon Train and
Gunsmoke.
Gene Rodenberry polished his
writing skills on this show!
Passings Richard Boone died in 1981 of throat cancer.
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Episodes to watch:
"Three Bells To Perdido" (9/14/1957)
(pilot)
"The Outlaw" (9/21/1957) (fan fave)
"Hey Boy's Revenge"
(9/12/1958) (cited by TV Guide)
"Genesis" (9/15/1962) (tells Paladin's
story)
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Richard Boone
From the
Neil
Kutzen Collection
Richard Boone
From the
Doug Abbott Collection
Richard Boone
From the
Doug Abbott Collection
Richard Boone
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