Colonel William A. Phillips

Stan Kenton! Tex Ritter! is an album by the Stan Kenton Orchestra with country music vocalist Tex Ritter performing country music compositions arranged in a big band style recorded and released by Capitol Records in 1962.^[1][2][3]

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[4]

The Allmusic review by Bruce Eder noted "overall this wasn't the worst idea in the world. The public never bought it, however, and the album was quickly deleted".^[4]

Track listing

1. "The Bandit of Brazil" (Alfredo Nascimento, Michael Carr, John Turner) – 2:23
2. "The Green Leaves of Summer" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:24
3. "Home on the Range" (Traditional) – 3:18
4. "Wagon Wheels" (Billy Hill, Peter DeRose) – 2:09
5. "Empty Saddles" (Hill) – 2:36
6. "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)" (Tiomkin, Ned Washington) – 2:42
7. "Cool Water" (Bob Nolan) – 2:34
8. "September Song" (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) – 3:57
9. "Red River Valley" (Traditional) – 3:56
10. "Cimarron (Roll On)" (Johnny Bond) – 3:20
11. "Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle" (Teddy Powell, Walter G. Samuels, Leonard Whitcup 2:45
12. "The Last Round Up" (Hill) – 3:42

• Recorded at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, CA on March 26, 1962 (tracks 7 & 8), March 29, 1962 (tracks 2, 3, 5 & 9) and March 30, 1962 (tracks 1, 4, 6 & 10–12).

Personnel

• Stan Kenton – piano, celeste, arranger, conductor (tracks 2, 3, 5 & 7–9)
• Tex Ritter – vocals
• Dee Barton, Bob Fitzpatrick, Newell Parker – trombone
• Jim Amlotte, – bass trombone
• Dave Wheeler – bass trombone, tuba
• Dwight Carver, Gene Roland, Carl Saunders, Ray Starling – mellophonium
• Lex de Azevedo – piano, celeste (tracks 1, 4, 6 & 10–12)
• Alvino Rey – console guitar
• Don Bagley – bass
• Art Anton – drums
• Lennie Niehaus – arranger, conductor (tracks 1, 4, 6 & 10–12)

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