Snapshots #301: A Top Ten Songs About Famous Wild West Heroes & Outlaws

Yesterday we had Butch Cassidy, today it's the Sundance Kid. See? Easy when you know how. And he's got a pair of those special binoculars with a camera inside. You ought to get a pair yourself. 

Here are ten songs I had to group together under the rather long-winded title of "Famous Wild West Heroes & Outlaws".

10. Big tents, like the moon.

The Marquees - Wyatt Earp

Featuring a very young Marvin Gaye, on a track co-written by Bo Diddley.

9. Sounds like you're a bit foggy about that invoice.

You must be in a bill haze.

Bill Hayes - The Ballad Of Davy Crockett

8. Tweedy lady and man in desperate circumstances.

Harris Tweed & Dire Straits.

Emmylou Harris & Mark Knopfler - Belle Starr

7. Where Ray Davies creates his Magnum. 

Ray Davies was a Kink. If he's creating something, it could be his Magnum Opus.

Opus Kink - Wild Bill

6. And I might still wear it in the afternoon.

My Morning Jacket - Butch Cassidy

5. Or is it on D-Day?

Doris Day - The Deadwood Stage (Calamity Jane)

4. Often bald.

The Eagles - Doolin' Dalton (The Wild Bunch)

3. A conk tingle.

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Nat King Cole - The Ballad of Cat Ballou

2. Cotton-eyed in Cambridgeshire.

Cotton Eye Joe lives in Ely these days.

Joe Ely - Me & Billy The Kid

1. Singer found in comic hero.

Comic hero.

Cher - Just Like Jesse James

Tonight we're gonna go down in flames... but we'll be back next Saturday with more of the same.