Well, what do you know…
GROAN 
Nope, that wasn’t the one I saw with Spock. It was called “Hot Dust.”
“Clowns in the circus are funny, but on the highway, they’re murder!”
This isn’t the best rendition in the world, and it’s missing the beginning, but it captures the flavor…
High camp!! great stuff. Thx
Overmod, that is the one! One I saw last night, “Revenge,” there’s scenes at a railroad station, everyone waiting for the ex-con who was away for five years. First, a steam locomotive passes pulling a bunch of box cars and baggage cars and one lone coach. Couldn’t make out the wheel arrangement, but it’s number was 3735. Then, a passenger train goes by pulled by an Alco PA! The bad guy wasn’t on either train. He got off at a different station from another train with lots of baggage and box cars and one coach only this was pulled by an F7 or F3. ( I think, anyway, the A & B units each had 3 portholes down their sides.) Good stuff!
Is this astounding pun really to go unremarked and unpraised?
Dave Nelson
Unpunished as well. [:P]
Gene! What a pitney you guys have to stoop so low.
Just as I was starting to get my appetite back…
It could be verse[swg]
And who can forget those classic lines in that gravelly warble voice of his: " Punks like you are a dime a dozen!" CLASSIC !
An interesting point (maybe?) is that the song “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” was based on the John Wayne / James Stewart movie of the same name…but the song wasn’t used in the movie; it came out after the movie.
His hit song “Last Exit to Brooklyn” was also the name of a well-known (and somewhat scandalous) novel, but AFAIK other than the title had no connection to the novel.
Gene Pitney wasn’t the only one, remember Johnny Horton’s song, “Sink the Bismarck?” It came out after the movie of the same name. The thing about movies back then, like Liberty Valance, Spartacus and say, The Flight of the Phoenix is that when they opened it was a big deal, lots of newspaper promotions, banners and whatnot.and they played in theatres for months on end. The last movie like that was Star Wars. Can’t think of any others since.
The thing about Liberty Valance is that it was directed by John Ford and every one of his westerns was a “big” picture. Stagecoach from 1938 remains one of my favourite movies and there is a worthy remake from 1966 with Bing Crosby playing the Thomas Mitchell part and Ann-Margaret (yow!) playing Claire Trevor’s role. Not to ramble on so much but Edmund O’Brien played the Thomas Mitchell role in Liberty Valance.
God bless Johnny Horton! “Sink the Bismarck”, “North to Alaska”, “Battle of New Orleans”, I could go on. What a loss. RIP Johnny.
The theme music for Highway Patrol had a special fan in my boyhood neighborhood.
Highway Patrol had long been cancelled when a local station picked it up in reruns. Every weekday afternoon at 4:00 P. M., Highway Patrol aired. The biggest fan in the neighborhood was a dog.
The dog’s owners tuned in and two legged neighbors would bring visitors to hear the sing along. As soon as the ominous opening four notes played, the dog would howl along. The dog howled along until the theme finished.
The dog never sang along to any other music, only Highway Patrol.
Must’ve been a police dog.