The Big Country Theme

[@timwilliams1238]

As an Englishman this is the most american piece of music ever ....pure genius full of hope.generosity.decency and vision....superb.

[@user-iv7pl2uo7q]

Have felt the same since I first saw the film in 1960. Impossibly rich, fully representative of the visual expansiveness of the film & the genre. Every track is flawless & unforgettable.

[@cma8789]

Yet, very much like "Tintagel", by the English composer Arnold Bax.

[@user-iv7pl2uo7q]

@@cma8789 I know Bax's music, but not that composition. Will listen.

[@bryanhead2670]

As a Scotsman I couldn't agree more !!!

[@warpigeonofdoom]

America could do with a bit more of the Manifest Destiny enshrined by this music.

[@stephaniemazzella5985]

My dad was a big fan of Western movies and tv . Im 74 and grateful 😂

[@wandaguz8541]

My dad too .

[@Jean-rg4sp]

All my uncles loved a good western when I was a small boy. I am 76 in twelve days. I miss them all.

[@loydapenafielcolom8597]

My dad too 😊

[@Gianniutah]

Likewise but I’m a tad younger 😂

[@shilo1949]

I saw this movie when I was 8 years old with my Mom at the movie show. She loved Gregory Peck. I'm 74 too and this song has stuck with me through all my years. Love it!

[@ILoveBANFF1974]

Definitely one of the greatest westerns of all time ! Beautiful movie score , absolutely breathtaking! What a magnificent cast !! Wow !!

[@jackjones7504]

Depends on what you are looking for in a western, but its a great movie for sure. For me as Kid at that time Westerns had Injuns in em.

[@gsbealer]

Memories of my Dad, who was a huge movie fan, having worked in London for MGM and having met a slew of movie stars as a result. He met Gregory Peck at his home, when returning his son from a mutual friend’s house. Dad imparted his love of movies to me. Thanks Dad.

[@jewellclarke6512]

My Dad was such a fan of Westerns. This brings back so many memories that I had forgotten. Love and miss you Dad 😘❤️

[@eldoncollins7254]

How true.

[@大坂屋喜兵衛]

My uncle, who died this year, also loved westerns and had a tape with this song in the background music of his car. Every time I listen to this song, I remember when his uncle was fine.

[@peterlewis6820]

Chin up Jewell,he would be proud of you

[@MysticZet]

my dad died 2 months ago, and that song was his favourite western song... fucking corona ;((((((

[@VinylPanda-NaturallyClean]

I wanted to write exactly the same about my father. He was a big fan of Western and WWII movies. Unfortunately lost him more than 20 years ago.

[@jamespearson5928]

Pure class from an era gone by we need more of this

[@pubkrocknroll]

This is such a heartwarming piece of music. Truly beautiful.

[@johnnyblade4351]

Dad Passed last month .......... 91 he was a western man ... This is an iconic peace of Miusic 4 Him

[@nicksflicks9592]

One of the best epic film scores ever. Full of hope, action, energy, motivation and yearning. A musical tribute to American pioneering, courage, conflict and justice.

[@stroonZe1]

These are the same kinds of feelings I get. Sadly, our country is a bit off kilter These days. ✌

[@tompease8810]

I'd love to see this on tv again and I love the theme song

[@scottmiller6495]

Jerome Moross should have gotten the academy award for the film score of this terrific movie along with 4 other awards, mainly Best Picture of 1958! Thank God Burl Ives got his supporting actor award because he stole the picture in every way !!!!!

[@scottmiller6495]

@@tompease8810 You're right but unfortunately the young people of this changed world would not appreciate it nor would they like it much either!

[@k.j.mcelrath3627]

@@scottmiller6495 Moross actually composed this as part of an orchestral suite that didn't get performed or something. When the producer approached him on scoring this film, he pulled this out of his drawer (composers do that a lot 😆)

[@markmoore4237]

I travel, at least once a year, to Red River, New Mexico. As you travel over Bobcat Pass and head downhill into the valley, you take several hair pin turns, all the while waiting for the last one where you can see the entire town from above. I cue up this song on my phone, and hit play the moment I see the town. It fits. And I shed a tear. Every time. Good music to celebrate a great place to be.

[@andrewjohnstone963]

@@markmoore4237 wow 👌 👏 😍 👍

[@Celluloidwatcher]

Jerome Moross goes down in entertainment history as being one of the most underrated composers of Hollywood movie and television scores, mainly for Westerns. You can't overlook the majestic tone of Moross' music. So full of life and vigor with the need to expand one's horizons. It makes for great admiration for an exceptional talent. Thank you for presenting the theme from The Big Country (1958).

[@randompalmtopgaming7541]

Wonderful comment

[@maryannesteinberger7652]

You got that right. This should have won the Oscar. Politics…

[@sfmpr29]

Amazing score. The best!

[@mathieuj]

Jerome Moross was very underrated! Thankfully, we have Mom's & Dad's spirit locked into that song.

[@andrewarmitage9491]

I have my Dad's funeral in a few days. This is going to play him out. I never forgot in my teens I would say to him why are you watching another western. He just said 'there is no such thing as a bad western'. This was his all time favourite.

[@MA_808]

sorry for your loss RIP to your Dad

[@milkdrumk]

I remember when I was a kid, we went on a trip to Arizona, and I made my dad play this over and over as we drove through the mountains. :3

[@terinasargeant138]

That is living the dream when you play your iconic head music on vacation yes. I do stuff like that.

[@scottmiller6495]

Very suitable for a trip anywhere in the mountains and out west as well!

[@cynthiahusband106]

One of my most favorite music score’s made for a western -yes there are others that beautiful but this one is so full of joy, hope, powerful score , still brilliant after so many years , the movie is just as great , wonderful cast chuck conners I remember was just great in it so was Charleston Heston , carol baker Gregory peck great great movie love tombstone unforgiven Wyatt Earp but I also love the big country!

[@yordanagarciagarcia6283]

I remember when was a boy, I listened this theme from a radio hystoty un 1962 inMaracai, Venezuela. It's a beautiful.theme.

[@martinpugh1008]

I bet that was a sight and the scenery must have been fantastic and something to behold I am from South Wales UK and I'd would certainly like to experience a trip like that 👍😃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@janegarcia5783]

This is one of the most exhilarating movie themes ever. In fact, as stupendous as the opening is, the reprise at 1:52 is even more goosebumpy.

[@maryannesteinberger7652]

Vince DeRosa’s horn solo is stupendous. Naturally.

[@stunned.6707]

This music brings visions of mesas and western mountains Truly music fits the scene.

[@empressjudi5736]

Memories of you Dad & watching some long long western films with you. Miss you dearly Dad 💜🙏🏾🕯💫

[@ratkojovanovic2272]

Yes amen i to remember those precious moments watching TV with my loving dad now in heaven

[@Beagle3561]

I'm just so sad that music will NEVER be written like this again. Thank you, Jerome Moross.

[@oscarjimenezgarrido7591]

It will come back eventually. The public is starving for emotions right now, they just aren't aware of it. The fact that comment sections for crap like the Man of Steel soundtrack - a _richly textured_ (as some say, sigh) -crescendo- huge heap of nothingness that leads *absolutely nowhere,* - for example, are full of praise for the perceived magnificence of the music and the emotions it allegedly elates, when in reality it's just a badly concocted frankenstein of library loops and samples that tells absolutely nothing either in aural or emotive terms. Zimmer, of whose work I used to be a devout aficionado back in the 90s when he was actually good and composed real, wonderful music - like Prince of Egypt - has devolved into a complete hack whose pool of melodies ran completely dry around the 2000 year mark and, after realizing he couldn't sustain his career exclusively through badly disguised rehashes of his own old music sheets for much longer - as his "collaborative" work in Pirates of the Caribbean revealed to anyone with a working ear - reinvented his laureated self into an experimental slash commercial composer whose work, allegedly, is not about hooks, but moods and emotions. Yeah, right. See, there's more emotion contained in the sound of a road maintenance worker whistling some heartfelt tune while paving some street under the scorching summer sun than in the entirety of Zimmer's body of work over the last 20 years, including Sherlock Holmes - the only occasion where he actually seemed to care enough to provide some actual, kind of memorable melody work to accompany the rythm, harmony and textures -. The worst part of it is how his schlockness has infected the whole world of big budget moviemaking like a virus, to the point where producers and directors get to hire actually good composers, like Elfman or Giacchino, only to end up instructing and imposing them to suppress their natural artistic tendencies and end up delivering a post-2000-zimmeresque dud way below their true and tested talents, of which the recent disappointment that was the music soundtrack for The Batman - a wildly overrated effort in every other cinematic sense, on the other hand, so no surprises here - serves as a perfect, paradigmatic example. If you're still reading, know that not everything is lost yet, as good composers and good music haven't been entirely vanished; they're just pushed to the gutter and harder to spot, that's all. Just try to give a listen to the wonderful soundtrack that Austin Wintory, one of the most promising younger composers I've come across in a long time, created a few years ago for the Assassin's Creed: Syndicate video game - skip the standard album order and go for "Danza Alla Daggers" first for a proper hook that will accompany you through the whole listening experience -. There's still quality, talent and an artistic penchant for true greatness to be found out there, it's just that it's no longer sitting in the front row at plain sight as it used to be, which is the tragic part. Fortunately, we got the Great Library of Alexandria that is the Internet to make up for that - if only it was smarter in terms of always understanding exactly what you're looking for all of the time, but, hey, I guess you can't have it all.

[@nickbrodziak611]

It is Truly beautiful ans touching. The best years this country ever had

[@dutamulia]

@@oscarjimenezgarrido7591 Thank you

[@andrewjohnstone963]

My parent's brought home this wonderful soundtrack in their 60s i was only a child spellbound doesn't cover it Dad passed away in March and i sat with the headphones and toasted his life Wonderful and wondrous peice of music thanx dad❤ mums still with us thanx mum ❤

[@debbachebachir]

RIP. your father

[@tinabazor8529]

I get chills every time this song plays. The best western and theme song ever. Brings back my childhood.

[@slyslaughter5115]

How I came to wear a cowboy hat and write songs. This theme is celestial.

[@annewatson8113]

My dad loved westerns and this reminds me of my dad I love this film big time and Gregory peck is my most loved and the most humble and beautiful gentleman he is the best actor I have ever watched and no one can top him he is just himself and so natural a genius who will live in my heart forever amazing man x

[@FCSchaefer]

My personal favorites are The Wild Bunch, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and High Noon; but the music from the The Big County is awesome and the film is an exceptional example of the great Technicolor epics that came out in the 1950's with a once in a lifetime cast headed by Gregory Peck at his finest. Sadly, I think this movie has been forgotten today except by die hard western fans.

[@420haxx]

You have great taste in westerns, The Wild Bunch and TGBATU are amazing. As for 'modern' westerns Tombstone, Unforgiven and Lonesome Dove are among the best.

[@FCSchaefer]

@@420haxx Unforgiven is a masterpiece, stands the test of time. Among more recent westerns, I'm a fan of The Hateful Eight and the remake of 3:10 to Yuma.

[@rogerscollier7424]

One of the grandest and greatest scenes to open a movie ever. Must’ve been a absolutely thrilling experience in the days of the grand movie houses. A student of Aaron Copland and his influence on Moross is obvious.

[@johnbarnes7274]

I a, with your dad love this western and sound track god bless. Xxxx

[@ericwilliams295]

Had not seen this movie in decades. I played it back one day on a DVD recording a friend had lent me. SMACK!!! Right upside my head. It all came RUSHING BACK, like an avalanche. Sitting at the Radio City Music Hall cinema with both of my parents as a six year old boy. How I felt so safe, and secure, and yet engulfed with the BIG SCREEN and BIG SOUND of a 'downtown' REAL movie theatre. The thunder of the hoofs of the horses pulling that stage coach. Everything in that movie was big. My dad telling me that there were Black Cowboys back in the day who were Freemen, as well. But, that image of a big screen vista of the so-called 'Old West' so ensconced in the consciousness of American folk of all stripes. The first ten minutes of this movie brought it all back. Thanks to whoever placed this soundtrack here. This is truly awesome.

[@robertredmond8359]

The Big Country and Lawrence of Arabia are the two cinematic masterpieces which, if you are lucky enough to experience in a theatre, have the ability to completely remove you from the world and transport you to a different time and place. All the 'low tech" stuff that allows the true artistry to show through.

[@richardolexsak96]

great movies have to be seen in theaters. you're right. no distractions in a theatre.

[@d.e.b.b5788]

Home theater is now availabe to the masses. In 2004, I purchased a svga projector for $1500. Just mounted it on the ceiling, and projected it onto a white wall (after I took a picture down). Hooked the dvd player to my stereo, stuck in a reverb gadget from Radio Shack, and viola! Instant theater. Once you have a good movie playing, you won't even notice that it's not HD. I promise. Those old projectors are available now for less than $400. Stop putting off buying one just because you can't afford HD. A ten foot screen on any white wall will make you feel like your in one of the old big movie theaters.

[@scribe56]

Saw it on regular network TV station about six months ago. Wow. Music, location, and the actors -- Peck, Jean Simmons, etc. Good story. I get a thrill hearing the music.

[@nicholasdavies6264]

Eric Williams Su bloody perb piece of music and the movie was a classic!

[@robertnymand9889]

Great movie I could watch over and over. Wonderful cast!

[@tonyslome9792]

I had the pleasure of playing this with the Blackpool Symphony Orchestra in 2019

[@kingforaday8725]

I only had late Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons to enjoy watching westerns with my dad. He was working the rest of the time. What I would give to do it just one more time.

[@fossie32]

Yes! Thank you for the Opportunity to listen to this :)

[@shrimpy8188]

Incredible. I've had the good fortune to visit your great country 20 years ago and loved every square inch of what I saw. Would love the chance to go back. God bless America.

[@bobbij3030]

Could watch this again and again. The Chuck, Chuck and Chuck show. LOVE THIS!!!

[@Grogster2007]

Fantastic....... Reminds me of being a youngster watching these westerns with by dad and bothers....you can almost smell the prairie

[@lancechamplain]

Indeed

[@MsSoundguy]

Grogster2007 And the popcorn.

[@Milesco]

+Grogster2007 : Hope your dad didn't "bother" you too much! ;-)

[@janschacher3874]

Grogster2007 und

[@dianechavez3394]

I sat endlessly and enjoyed all the TV westerns with my wonderful Grandfather Manuel from Santa Rita New Mexico! I was in love with the Westerns! The Rifleman was one of them and that theme song was out of this world! Tombstone lives up to the old westerns!

[@mr.richardl.visnickersr.5150]

I was fortunate to see this film when I was 14 years old and an impression that it made on me about the West with will never die and I'm 75 now

[@TheCrackerMan21]

Walt, it you weren't a guy, I'd kiss you. You've nailed this soundtrack perfectly. The composer, Jerome Morross was snubbed by the Oscars and lost out to Dimitri Tiomkin's forgettable score for 'The Old Man and the Sea'. Mr. Morooss seemed to suffer from this loss (I did a paper on him for college), and it's a crying shame this work isn't appreciated more for what it is: it defines a genre with such impact that words cannot describe it. I swear if it were possible, it could wake the dead!

[@scottmiller6495]

I can't agree with you more! It killed him and he needs to recognized even now for this Superb Score and his composing Wagon Train as Well Period!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@deacondavis5098]

I agree 100%. This score was sinfully snubbed. It without doubt deserves recognition!!!!

[@williambrandt9254]

Oh that’s interesting about Jerome. As far as the quality of his music people are still listening to this 60 years later. Stephen Bogart for a while used to have a wonderful Internet series called the icons radio. He interviewed many classic movie stars or their family members. He interviewed Catherine Wyler, William Wyler‘s daughter, and a Director and producer in her own right. She was of the opinion that the music score in this movie was a bit overpowering and I think she is probably right. It’s supposed to complement the scenes and not draw attention away from them. That being said he wrote beautiful music. The fact that people still listen to this today and not the music score from the old man and the sea tells you something about the stupid Oscars and why I haven’t watch them for years

[@scottmiller6495]

@@williambrandt9254 I don't agree with that lady's interpretation of Jerome Moross,s score of Big Country! It is very overpowering but it draws your interest into the picture not take you away from it! That's an untrue statement and the three reasons this film was Superb were: The Acting, the Scenery and the Music PERIOD!!!!!

[@williambrandt9254]

@@scottmiller6495 I'm just telling you what Katherin Wyler, daughter of the director William Wyler, thought. YMMV

[@brucelopez2333]

My Dad too he was a Big fan of western movies and this was one most common music in western movies! It's brings back good old memories!

[@davidweber1320]

The quintessential western music theme. As exciting and rugged as the old west combined with great acting and the sprawling panorama of the frontier. A riveting and haunting score.

[@Milesco]

+david weber : You said it, Dave!

[@TheGreenbison07]

Sensational music that never ceases to bring back memories of watching it with family at xmas as a kid

[@tonibarber6404]

Listening to this fantastical theme gives my goose bumps more goose bumps.

[@martinpugh1008]

I'm a massive fan of westerns and the theme music that comes with it the big country is one or my favourites i could listen to it for hours and still not tire of it iam also a big fan of Clint Eastwood westerns and the theme music that comes with those I have only just discovered this channel and wish I'd known about it sooner guess what I'm watching on the television at this very moment yes the big country hense what prompted me to Google to find out if I could find any information about the theme music of this film I love it its absolutely bloody brilliant greetings from Swansea South Wales UK 👍❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@TheRepty818]

One if the greatest forgotten western themes. it's so amazing. Thank God Disney still uses it at Frontier land.

[@Milesco]

+TheRepty818 : Forgotten, indeed! Funny you should mention Frontierland. Back in 1990 I saw the Wild West Stunt Show at Knott’s Berry Farm, and they played this tune before the show while the audience was filtering in. I really liked it - it sounded “quintessentially western”, as david weber [elsewhere in this comment section] said. It sounded vaguely familiar, although I couldn’t recall having heard it before. I wonder if that’s where I previously heard it - Frontierland at Disneyland? (I had gone there a couple times in the ’70s as a kid.) Anyway, this “mystery tune” stayed with me for years after that. I didn’t know the name of it, and it never got played on the radio, so I gave up hope of ever being able to hear it again. For all I knew, it wasn't even a real track that a person could buy - it may have been just some nameless, stock “western-sounding” background music for commercial purposes. Eventually, over time, I even forgot how the melody went, which _really_ destroyed my chances of ever finding it again. :-( Then one day, several years later, and about 18-20 years after I first heard it at Knott’s Berry Farm, the melody unexpectedly popped back into my head while I was taking a shower. At that point, I couldn't even be sure if this was the tune I had been looking for for years, or if it was just a new melody that my brain created out of pure imagination. Then in 2011, I attended a 4th of July concert. The orchestra started playing the rousing fanfare intro, which I didn’t recognize, but it sure sounded Western. That got me thinking again about that long-lost melody from over two decades earlier, that I was sure I’d never hear again. Imagine my amazement when the fanfare ended and the main melody of this composition started playing. Oh my God! This is it!!! And it sounded EXACTLY as I remembered it! My recovered memory turned out to be right on target, note for note. Best of all, I had the concert program, so after 21 years, I finally knew the name of the composition. From then on, I could play it any time I wanted. That was an incredible evening.

[@randallanderson6477]

I saw this movie when I was 12 yrs old - the movie and the music has remained with me ever since. That was 65 years ago.

[@wandaguz8541]

J saw it when I was a little girl, with my dad, in a cinema in Poland. I remeber it very well. I have 70 now and my dad is dead 😅

[@stewartclifton3068]

WOW! Memories come flooding back, thanks.

[@edwardgunyo3638]

Met Gregory Pack in 2002 during his tour of taking to folks that loved old movies and people like him still alive. Well, I talked to him 6 ft plus tall and the same great voice. He passed away the next year. Sad, but what a great talent and a wonderful human being. Will miss him for the rest of my life, but we still have the movies, and that is important. Thanks. Ed

[@snidely261]

This is the best Western theme song ever ,you can feel the music and I love it ..

[@angel1962ize]

jerome moross, try the valley of gwangi

[@keithcloyd6097]

Certainly one of my favorite western scores alone with High Noon, & Magnificent 7.

[@phillipwalker6517]

Magnificent seven was pretty good too.

[@scottmiller6495]

Yes it was. Certainly worthy of an Academy award which it unfortunately never got!!!!!

[@davidviner5783]

There are many challengers to that claim, including the mag seven TGTBTU, ecstasy of gold, how the west was won, once upona time in the west to name few. They are all superb.

[@joeymakowski6340]

I’m 31 years old and I absolutely love westerns movies. Just watch this one for the first time. It’s a great movie.

[@brainsareus]

Gregory Peck...one of the most decent humans to have walked the planet,let alone Hollywood. what a piece of music...!!

[@KeldorDAntrell]

Decent in terms of on-screen persona. He seemed born to play men of integrity. How decent he was off-screen, I can't say.

[@alanplant2262]

Fantastic man great actor. Missed. Loved the yearling when I was a kid.

[@roddyteague6246]

Yes he was apparently. Robert Mitchum became good friends with him during the filming of Cape Fear & called the drinking trio of Peck, Mitchum & (Telly) Savalas the Good, the Bad & the Ugly!

[@ricardovelasco3976]

Maybe so, but he was also a Pacifist who refused to fight in World War 2. That damages his reputation.

[@roddyteague6246]

@@ricardovelasco3976 Not so. He crocked his back (during dancing lessons?!) & was declared unfit for military service. Typically the Studio tried to make out it was due to a rowing injury but Peck would have none of it.

[@paulmoon6642]

One the greatest westerns ever made , one of the grandest scores !!

[@susantreece7176]

Loved this since I was a child. So emotional!

[@kermitwood6152]

Bringing The BIG SCREEN to ALL of US!!!OUTSTANDING...

[@mizar970]

What a great song!!! I remember when the group YES combined this song with a Richie Havens song, "NO OPPORTUNITY NECESSARY, NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED". Give it listen some time on KZbin.

[@dannymacgyver]

I can here because I am a yes fan was waiting to see someone comment about this

[@barnabasgordon1199]

Can’t tell your mama

[@2Hearts3]

One of the greatest themes ever, a masterpiece ✨🏆👏

[@kaywinfield8508]

Remember playing this with the school orchestra back in the 70s. The music teacher, Mr Sage introduced it to the long suffering parents as quite a risk to play something that people knew rather than something obscure. ... I can only be thankful that no one had camera phones back in the day... I doubt it sounded much like this. But it brings back wonderful memories... especially as parents no longer with alive. They of course thought it was great .. or at least they said so at the time. :)

[@kaywinfield8508]

Apologies for typo/ grammar re parents no longer with us / alive.

[@kaywinfield8508]

That teacher had to have made an impact ... remembering his name after 40 odd years... Ken Sage you were a legend

[@halcyon289]

My grandfathers favourite movie . The music stirred him like nothing else .

[@765kvline]

The Greatest, most effectively lyrically landscaped western movie music ever written!

[@FlyOnTheMoon.]

What a beautiful composition!

[@dfaircloth30]

One of the best westerns and western songs ever

[@mickmcmenemy7701]

Maybe the greatest western film score ever. Love to America

[@Starz723]

One of the greatest film scores ever. Awesome.. I remember hearing this since I was a kid and never tire of it. It is one of the best, if not the best.

[@dave3130]

Watched this on a Sunday with my dad after a roast dinner ❤

[@markswitzer2204]

This is certainly a Masterpiece !!!! I wish todays music sounded this good ! It is an ELITE PIECE that's enjoyed by many . Mark Switzer

[@CowboyMusicArt-pb8qu]

I am a nurse and i just got off working two weeks night shifts and trying to switch my sleeping schedule and sleep at night listening to this at 4 AM I feel less moody and more calm this is soothing like a hug thank you ❤

[@caroldavis6928]

Watching the movie again for the umpteenth time as I write this and the score gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. Absolute perfection - the canyon scene is magnificent.

[@feeberizer]

It's Dec 16, 2023 and I'm watching the movie on GritTV. The score is magnificent and it's so nice to be able to play it anytime I want.

[@edchapman5801]

60 years ago - remember my dormitory at Stephen F. Austin in Nacogdoches, Texas back in the early '60's - one guy down the hall played this (the main theme) and then the next one, "the welcoming," over and over really loud but nobody complained - we all loved it - really goose bump music, especially in Texas.

[@swwei]

A tune that perfectly corresponds to the majesty of the American West.

[@deborahives6318]

This is one fantastic piece of music and a very nostalgic feeling it brings with it too.... Just love it... x

[@tlcorrenti]

Wow one of my favorite movies and theme songs! These movies were so classy! I miss all these fine actors!

[@Samjs3822]

This is a stinkin' awesome theme song for a western. Brings back all kinds of great memories.

[@AlessioRomaMusic]

Masterpiece.. The great American history 🎬✨️🎶

[@Gianniutah]

When a America was becoming great!! A bold soundtrack for bold people and country

[@SOTONTEE]

Gregory Peck was a great actor and this was a good western.Thanks.

[@phillipdavenport4997]

We played this in our highschool marching band uil routine in my highschool days 80s

[@kim22ratte]

Jerome Moross is one of the great film composers of all time. Also his score to “The Cardinal” shows his great ability and versatility as a composer!

[@waybear7]

I was at a very impressionable age when I first heard this music...I was 9 years old! This haunting melody has stayed within my subconscience for 52 years, (lmao). So glad KZbin has it...I'm enjoying this composition once aagain, THANKS

[@craiggerrard5117]

It's a great film and the music complements it perfectly.

[@davkatjenn]

I can feel the buckboard while I'm listening to this masterpiece. It's gorgeous!

[@theiceman6941]

This is truly one of the greatest movies ever. Great theme too of course.

[@juancarlosl4133]

No I can't believe it, Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, William Wyler...I really admire those three! and together, I did not know this movie...and what a theme! Thank you so much.

[@andreasashes]

Loved this film, still do, loved the theme tune and loved the actors.

[@nhmooytis7058]

Great theme for a great film! Up there with The Magnificent Seven!

[@TheLadybug778]

One of the songs my Dad loved & I heard this in the 70's for the 1st time.

[@MrAlamo1957]

OH for a return to those days Great theme music, Great films and the stars who graced our screens.

[@jameslear2938]

I watched this yesterday for the 1st time, this is in my top 10, what a film, highly recommend!

[@redskindan78]

Spectacular music, a perfect fit for one of the greatest westerns. This theme is repeated in so many disguises, so many variations, so many combinations of instrument.

[@MarkSwitzer-mu2dj]

Every time I play this movie theme , I feel like a Million Bucks ! This is absolutely the finest theme ever composed .

[@lbroderick783]

A beautiful movie with a great soundtrack! I loved watching Jean Simmons and Gregory Peck together. Burl Ives was awesome in this movie, too.

[@marcoperez6952]

Totally consumate actors on this film. What a great Western masterpiece. But the camera work and this theme made the movie what it was.

[@scottmiller6495]

@@marcoperez6952 It should have won Best Picture of 1958 along with atleast 3 other oscars, it was much better than that awful overrated Gigi by a mile!!!!!

[@大坂屋喜兵衛]

It's been a year since my uncle died, and every time I listen to this music, I remember my uncle's half-life. My uncle has been involved in tunnel construction related to railways, but every time I think that the route has become convenient thanks to his uncle, it is very difficult to do daily work under the "pioneering spirit". I'm proud of you.

[@leslieseabaugh6914]

watching those horses running, the stagecoach wheels, the country, beautiful scenery fantastic music

[@marwray1]

Jewel Clarke. God bless you. My Dad was too. May they rest in heavenly peace. ✌🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🥰

[@answerman1949]

The BEST western theme ever written.

[@Milesco]

Indeed it is.

[@mfpageprb]

Ditto.

[@quaker57]

Totally agree, it shows how good it is because there are some great Western movie tracks out there and this tops them all for me.

[@standingwave73]

Yes it was although "How The West Was Won" comes close.

[@scatcom6]

Definitely a top 5 for me.

[@nicolasfumarola8175]

fantastic music and film a classic of its time. could not believe it when i saw it when i was a kid. stayed with me through all the years. i now own it in dvd form and still find it as engaging as ever, brilliant.

[@brit1066]

This is one of two movies that qualify for the best movies ever made. The story is classic, the setting is marvelous, the acting is superb from a superb cast and the music is, well words fail me. No the music is thrilling and fits the time and the whole tenor of the movie. I remember seeing this movie when it first came out with my best friend, we went to see it primarily because we were both in love with Jean Simmons. But we were both enthralled and captivated by the whole experience. On the way out of the ice a we met one of our school masters on his way in, he was a young man and he told us he also came to see Jean Simmons

[@nessieg23]

+Keith Grove with you there, amazing film, Peck brilliant and the fight scene with him and Heston done in complete silence - wonderful.

[@Milesco]

+Keith Grove : Jean Simmons was also excellent as the bass player for KISS. ;-)

[@skat1140]

+Keith Grove It's definitely a _great_ movie. (And, it's amazing Heston took on a role that is auxiliary and unflattering; kudos to him.) Not sure it's the "best." Not sure it can knock The Good, The Bad, The Ugly off its almost insurmountably high pedestal. Peck's insistence that _no one_ see him try out the horse nor know he's tried out the horse, that he not get in a fight (when he's actually a great fighter), borders on autistic. By being so self-abnegating, he's not following a greater moral code, he's merely following his own neurotic code that calls all the more attention to himself just as he's supposedly trying to deflect attention. Also, the ending is a little too pat and unrealistic (for me); the two heads of rival families duel it out rather than let there minions take the risks for them. C'mon. That only happened in King Arthur's time, because King Arthur is fictional. But, not gonna get in an argument with you. I can tell you've had a few drinks. (No, wait, that's me.)

[@harryoconnor3550]

What's the other film?

[@brit1066]

+Hazza O The Lion in Winter, O'Toole was beyond genius in the part of Henry II, he goes from affable clown to psychotic lunacy in a heart beat and back again, truly a chilling performance. Katherine Hepburn out Lady Macbethed, Lady Macbeth and the two together were!!!!! well words are not enough. Anthony Hopkins as Richard I, wow you can see the beginings of Hannibal Lecter there. The music in my humble opinion is even better than the Big Country, it was written by John Barry who you will remember wrote the great James Bond music. Yes a fantastic movie, a movie of shock and awe but in the 12th century.

[@jamestregellas803]

These old theme tunes are simply timeless & fantastic to listen to again.

[@kew4612]

Even as a kid and today when I watch this film I love the way that the character of Gregory Peck (Jim) bucks the trend of the rough tough cowboy and does not have to prove himself to any one because he knows his own strengths and weakness. Peck was perfect for this role. Burl Ives - I told you I'd kill yer boy. love it !!!

[@johnminger9610]

My favorite western, and I’ve seen a bunch. I’m 72 yrs. Old.

[@michaeldj5]

Would love to listen to this driving from Dallas to my old home of Tucson, a road trip I love very dearly, through the great, wide open expanses of west Texas, the beautiful deserts of southern New Mexico, and finally into the most beautiful desert in the world, the incomparable Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona.

[@bikebrian]

How perfect!

[@Charles_Young]

This New England’s is jealous.

[@pdm2201]

My father who was born in 1901, was British, and preferred reading over films which he did not like much. However I recall he made it a point to go out and see this and I can only guess he read a review somewhere. My father loved this movie.

[@matthewleblanc6024]

Charlton Heston was a star at this time, but took a lower billing just so he could work with the direction William Wyler. Wyler remembered Heston did this, and cast him as the lead in small movie later on: "Ben-Hur."

[@scottmiller6495]

Small Movie! Ben Hur was One of the greatest Films of all time 😁 Winning 11 Academy awards and Deserved it as Well Period!!!!!

[@aileenlightbody91]

@@scottmiller6495 lol I think Matthew was being tongue in cheek here!

[@chel3SEY]

One of the best scores for one of the best Westerns. Really great stuff. Thanks for posting.

[@avalongha]

one of the best western movie themes.

[@nancyhilliard267]

This is the most beautiful theme song ever!🌹

[@brittainladd3374]

This is by far one of the best motion picture themes and soundtracks ever created for any film. I use this music when I speak on webinars about business, and I use this theme when I appear at conferences to speak. The audience always love this music and I make it a point to make sure they know that Jerome Moross is the composer. As for the film itself, I think it’s arguably one of the best Westerns ever made.