Long before I ever saw "High Noon" on TV, my introduction to Tex Ritter was an old 78 RPM record from my grandmother's collection with "Blood on the Saddle" on one side. My brother and I cracked up over this song (which was supposed to be serious and sad) and sang it endlessly in our best Tex Ritter imitations. Years later we were amazed to hear the song played at Disneyland's Bear Jamboree. We thought we were the only people ever to have heard it.
By the way, the other side of the record was "Bad Brahma Bull," a story song that was SUPPOSED to be funny and really was.This great tune has stuck in my mind for some fifty years; I can still sing it (badly) at the drop of a Stetson hat.
