Jay Livingston

A prolific composer and lyricist, Livingston will probably be remembered best for the television themes to Bonanza and Mr. Ed. The Oscar winner’s career spanned nearly 50 years, penning songs for some of the greatest movies, including “The Paramount-Don’t-Want-Me Blues” (Sunset Boulevard), “Buttons and Bows” (Son of Paleface), and “Que Sera, Sera” (The Man Who Knew Too Much).

Composing with long-time collaborator, Ray Evans, Livingston wrote for numerous movies and television shows — even The Bugs Bunny Show. His music may also be heard in the Westerns, The Paleface, Streets of Laredo, Whispering Smith, Night of the Grizzly, Copper Canyon and Lawman (TV).

In recent years, Livingston was also responsible for the non-Westerns Hudson Hawk and The Godfather; Part III.

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Western film and television shows helped shape the moral values of many people in this country. Children grew up watching Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger, and many other heroes of the silver screen following the "Code of the West." The battle of wrong vs. right was the theme of virtually every Western movie and television show, and the right always prevailed.

Wildest Westerns is a Western magazine that is dedicated to revisiting those "thrilling tales of yesteryear" in the articles, interviews, reviews, and photos on our magazine pages. Some of America's most respected and remembered heroes and villains came from these Western genres. It is our hope that this Western magazine will awaken the memories in your heart, and also help bring to light the values of the Western to those who didn't have the benefit of knowing these wonderful heroes and villains. We will always remember them, and would like to say "Thank You" to all the actors, actresses, directors, producers, studios, and all the unsung heroes behind the scenes that brought us the Western.