This disc includes music that was released on CERBERUS RECORDS some 20 years ago as well as the premiere release of Herrmann's score for the GUNSMOKE episode THE TALL TRAPPER.

The CD will feature notes by Jon Burlingame.

Starting in late 1956, Bernard Herrmann received several television commissions from CBS, including considerable music for a genre that largely eluded him in feature films: the western. One of his themes, "Have Gun -- Will Travel," ran for six years on the network and then had a healthy decades-long run in syndication.

Among the music on this CD, two of these scores were written specifically "to picture," these were the pilot score for the Richard Boone TV Series "Have Gun,Will Travel" and Herrmann's score for the episode THE TALL TRAPPER from the long-running TV series "Gunsmoke" starring James Arness.

HAVE GUN,WILL TRAVEL pilot: "Three Bells to Perdido"
1. Suite (10:19)

WESTERN SUITE
2. Prelude (1:26)
3. The Ambush (2:55)
4. Tranquil Landscape (3:28)
5. Dark Valley (2:15)
6. The Meadows (3:21)
7. Bad Man (1:53)
8. Gunfight (1:34)
9. Rain Clouds (2:58)
10. Sun Clouds (1:24)

GUNSMOKE: THE TALL TRAPPER
11. Suite (9:24)

THE INDIAN SUITE
12. Indian Ambush (3:28)
13. Indian Echo (1:11)
14. Indian Signals (2:18)
15. Indian Fight (2:10)

WESTERN SAGA
16. Prelude (:55)
17. Street Music (1:44)
18. Open Spaces (3:29)
19. The Hunt (2:08)
20. The Watching (3:09)
21. The Canyons (2:23)
22. Gunsmoke (1:55)
23. Gunfight (1:15)
24. Victory! (:44)