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And our second Golden Age title:
THE CISCO KID
Composed and Conducted by Albert Glasser
What a fascinating and colorful history the character of The Cisco Kid has. The character was introduced by author O. Henry in 1907 in the short story “The Caballero’s Way,” which was published in a collection called Hearts of the West.
After a whole slew of Cisco Kid films (the first was made in 1914) involving several different actors in the title role, in 1945 came another series of three films, this time from programmer studio Monogram. This time the film starred the man who would forever by identified with the role, Duncan Renaldo. Then yet another series of films were made, six in all, and all made in one year – those all starred Gilbert Roland as the Kid. Then Renaldo returned to the role in 1948 with The Valiant Hombre – this time Pancho was played by Leo Carillo. Renaldo and Carillo would do five films and then they both starred in what would be the most popular iteration of them all – the classic TV series filmed by ZIV starting in 1950. There is no kid who grew up watching the show who didn’t say the series’ classic tag line, “Oh, Cisco” “Oh, Pancho.”
For the series of films with Duncan Renaldo, The Cisco Kid got a new musical voice – composer Albert Glasser, who’d been scoring low-budget programmers since 1941. It was Glasser’s music that would become identified with The Cisco Kid and of course he went on to score all the episodes of the TV shows. His main theme was iconic and instantly identifiable, and his music for the films and TV show was exciting, melodic, and classic Glasser, especially in the blaring chase scenes.
This release comes from a tape made by Mr. Glasser, a tape that was in decent enough sound (some of his tapes were better than others), but other than the title, the tape box contained no real information. This tape and others from its era were from his acetates. When we began working on this project, we all assumed this tape contained cues from the TV series, but while Glasser did recycle quite a bit of music from the film series into the TV series, after a lot of research we realized that what we in fact had was the almost-complete score to the 1949 film, The Gay Amigo, which was the second of the final five Cisco Kid films prior to the TV show. There were slates, of course, but for this release we gave the tracks some titles, just for fun. The masterful Chris Malone labored over the sound for a long time and the result is as good as this is going to sound. To fill out the CD, we include suites from the TV series, Big Town, as well as short suites from the films The Buckskin Lady and Top of the World.
THE CISCO KID is limited to 500 copies only and priced at $19.98, plus shipping. CDs will ship by the third week of January, but never fear, we’ve actually been averaging three to five weeks early in terms of shipping ahead of the official ship date. To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.
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It's a weird PayPal glitch that we're trying to get them to figure out. You get one title in the cart, then go to the other one and the button isn't clickable. Close out of the site, then click on the other title and it works fine. Hopefully PayPal can tell us what's what.
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The kid sitting in front of his first TV set was me. To this day who can forget Mr. Glasser's opehihg title. Not me. Thank you so much, Bruce. PFK and Niall... where are you guys ?
Cody I'm here, PFK is having his beauty sleep, he's getting on a bit now and listening to his huge collection of old 78s and LP records does take a lot out of him you know! Anyway, what a wonderful release by Kritzerland, well done Bruce and all concerned! The Cisco Kid was one of the earliest childrens shows broadcast on Radio Telefís Eireann in the early 1960s. Needless to say this kid loved it! After all these years I can still feel that quiver of excitement everytime the show started. This long awaited release is the perfect memento! Bruce has kept his part of the bargain and now it's our turn! Ordering!
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It's a weird PayPal glitch that we're trying to get them to figure out. You get one title in the cart, then go to the other one and the button isn't clickable. Close out of the site, then click on the other title and it works fine. Hopefully PayPal can tell us what's what.
Have you considered perhaps selling Kritzerland titles through Amazon, Bruce?
And again, THANKS FOR THE ALFRED!!!!!
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I do sell on Amazon - but we can't list there until we actually have the stock.
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I do sell on Amazon - but we can't list there until we actually have the stock.
And it cuts into your profit, no?
That it does.
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Talk about digging into childhood memories!
Did not remember the specifics of this score until the first few notes brought it all back.
Thanks!
And our second Golden Age title:
THE CISCO KID
Composed and Conducted by Albert Glasser
What a fascinating and colorful history the character of The Cisco Kid has. The character was introduced by author O. Henry in 1907 in the short story “The Caballero’s Way,” which was published in a collection called Hearts of the West.
After a whole slew of Cisco Kid films (the first was made in 1914) involving several different actors in the title role, in 1945 came another series of three films, this time from programmer studio Monogram. This time the film starred the man who would forever by identified with the role, Duncan Renaldo. Then yet another series of films were made, six in all, and all made in one year – those all starred Gilbert Roland as the Kid. Then Renaldo returned to the role in 1948 with The Valiant Hombre – this time Pancho was played by Leo Carillo. Renaldo and Carillo would do five films and then they both starred in what would be the most popular iteration of them all – the classic TV series filmed by ZIV starting in 1950. There is no kid who grew up watching the show who didn’t say the series’ classic tag line, “Oh, Cisco” “Oh, Pancho.”
For the series of films with Duncan Renaldo, The Cisco Kid got a new musical voice – composer Albert Glasser, who’d been scoring low-budget programmers since 1941. It was Glasser’s music that would become identified with The Cisco Kid and of course he went on to score all the episodes of the TV shows. His main theme was iconic and instantly identifiable, and his music for the films and TV show was exciting, melodic, and classic Glasser, especially in the blaring chase scenes.
This release comes from a tape made by Mr. Glasser, a tape that was in decent enough sound (some of his tapes were better than others), but other than the title, the tape box contained no real information. This tape and others from its era were from his acetates. When we began working on this project, we all assumed this tape contained cues from the TV series, but while Glasser did recycle quite a bit of music from the film series into the TV series, after a lot of research we realized that what we in fact had was the almost-complete score to the 1949 film, The Gay Amigo, which was the second of the final five Cisco Kid films prior to the TV show. There were slates, of course, but for this release we gave the tracks some titles, just for fun. The masterful Chris Malone labored over the sound for a long time and the result is as good as this is going to sound. To fill out the CD, we include suites from the TV series, Big Town, as well as short suites from the films The Buckskin Lady and Top of the World.
THE CISCO KID is limited to 500 copies only and priced at $19.98, plus shipping. CDs will ship by the third week of January, but never fear, we’ve actually been averaging three to five weeks early in terms of shipping ahead of the official ship date. To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.
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I've been watching them on nostalgia TV recently, and in color!
I read yesterday that Cisco Kid was the first TV western series filmed in color.
Yep. That little factoid is in our liner notes 
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I thought Bonanza was the first tv series aired in color.
What? Cisco Kid started Sept. 5, 1950 …….. Bonanza started Sept. 12, 1959.
Even the color TV Superman series started 1955.
The Lone Ranger was also an early filmed color show, but not shown that way until much later.
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FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC! Bien joué Bruce!
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