Themes From The Hip - Bud Wattles

Wanted Dead Or Alive

Themes From The Hip
Bud Wattles and His Orchestra
Produced by Bob Ancell
Roulette R 25073
1958

From the back cover: The brilliant arranger is Bud Wattles, a young man with whom I worked for the past year in Cleveland, Ohio. Bud is now musical director for radio station WERE. The 24 year old vibist was formerly arranger for Calvin Jackson on the coast. He has also scored many motion pictures and television shows. Notable was "The Helen Morgan Story." Bud has corralled a group of fine western (mid, that is) musicians who not only love horse operas, but who have peeked in on Peter Gunn, played with top jazz groups and made those wild sounds in many of the smoke filled, dark places, known as night clubs. Solo work features Knobby Lee with a soaring trumpet on Lawman. Herb Summers works around his trombone as easily as Matt Dillon rides a horse. Chuck Campbell approaches the bass trombone like a cowpoke approaches a rodeo. The driving clarinet solo on Black Saddle and the tenor work on Wanted – Dead Or Alive is interwoven by Bobby Jone. Other tenor solos and flute (that's right, partner, flute), Bob Sikora ridin' herd on bass and Vince Bilardo taking aim on drums and you've got yourself some might unusual listening. – Bob Ancell - Radio Station WGBS Miami, Florida

The Ballad Of Paladin
Black Saddle
Gunsmoke
Colt .45
Wagon Train
Wanted - Dead Or Alive
Maverick
Lawman
Bat Masterson Theme
The Legend Of Wyatt Earp
Lone Ranger
The Restless Gun