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Laine had a big hit with “High Noon,” but as I’m sure you know, Paul, the song on the movie soundtrack was sung by country star Tex Ritter.
Movies where Laine sung the title songs include “3:10 to Yuma,” “Gunfight at OK Corral,” “Blowing Wild,” and the ridiculous “Blazing Saddles.” He also sang the title song for the TV series “Rawhide,” which gave him something of a resurgence in the ’60s.”
Laine had big pop hits with “Your Cheatin’ Heart” and, with Joe Stafford, “Hey Good Lookin’.”
According to Laine’s autobiography, Marty Robbins personally pitched him “You Gave Me a Mountain” and said that he’d been trying to get it to Laine for a couple of years. Frankie said he knew that he could make a hit with that song as soon as he heard it and had to fight his record label to let him record it. Frankie said he was still seething that his label had made him turn down “The Impossible Dream” a few years earlier (Jack Jones and Robert Goulet grabbed it) and he was not going to let “You Gave Me a Mountain” get away from him.
I don’t know if Marty had already released his own version of “Mountain” when Frankie had the big easy listening hit with it.
Given how Laine has fallen out of favor in recent years, I suspect that the most heard version of “You Gave Me a Mountain” now is Elvis Presley’s cover.