Music Composed and Conducted by Alex North.

Two western scores, as exceptional as any, ranking with the best and lacking only in fame (due to the relative obscurity of their respective films), are released together in this spectacular Masters Film Music double-CD set.

Both scores were drawn from Alex North’s personal archive mastertape collection and are presented in glorious mono.

Disc One: THE WONDERFUL COUNTRY

1. Main Title (2:01)
2. Riding Into Pueblo (3:48)
3. Helen’s Theme (1:24)
4. Smuggling Guns (2:07)
5. Across the Rio Grande (1:54)
6. Chief Pistolero (1:14)
7. Murder at the Fiesta (2:54)
8. Escape (1:34)
9. Reunion With Castro (1:10)
10. General Marcos (1:05)
11. Capitol City (1:34)
12. Reunion at Fort Jefflin (4:01)
13. End Title (Album) (1:23)
14. The Chase (3:23)
15. Indian Fight (3:24)
16. Brady and Helen (3:09)
17. End Title (3:39)

Disc Two: THE KING AND FOUR QUEENS

1. Main Title (3:30)
2. Wagon Mound (1:46)
3. Ma’s Girls (4:18)
4. My Boy (2:47)
5. Once Over (2:37)
6. Sabina (2:55)
7. R4P1a (1:22)
8. R4P2 (:38)
v 9. R5P5/R6P1 (2:29)
10. Ruby (3:08)
11. Search (1:48)
12. Square Dance (2:03)
13. Oralie (2:26)
14. Ruby Spurned/Oralie Spurned (2:53)
15. Spied (1:34)
16. Farewell (1:52)
17. Gone (:40)
18. End Sequence and End Title (2:43)

Bonus Tracks:

19. Rosebud (3:29)
20. Square Dance (for Accordion and Guitar) (1:31)

THE WONDERFUL COUNTRY - Although a mood of melancholy or worse pervades this excellent western, it remains an honest and hard-hitting look at the realistic adventures of Martin Brady (Robert Mitchum -- who produced). Brady fled to Mexico while still quite young in order to avoid prison in the U.S. -- he had killed his father's murderer. After years spent working as a gunman for a wealthy "padron," he hates white Americans but has to go north to get weapons. Once on the wrong side of the border, he gets into trouble with U.S. Army for not helping them hunt down Apaches. But the people he meets in a small town, one a European immigrant, begin to change his black-and-white view of the world. Meanwhile, he and Ellen Colton (Julie London), the unhappy wife of an army major, begin to fall in love. Several more adventures and a tragedy or two affect the unlikely couple's future -- ultimately for the better. Baseball hero "Satchel" Paige shows up in a cameo role, leading an Afro-American unit of the U.S. army. Mexican star Pedro Armendariz is Brady's boss, Governor Castro. Directed by Robert Parrish. Also stars Gary Merrill and Jack Oakie. 1959

THE KING AND FOUR QUEENS - was the first (and last) project from Clark Gable's own production company, GABCO. Gable stars as western fugitive Dan Kehoe, who hides out in a small ghost town. Here he whiles away his time with the town's only inhabitants: Ma McDade (Jeanette Nolan), matriarch of the outlaw McDade family, and the four wives (Eleanor Parker, Jean Willes, Barbara Nichols and Sara Shane) of Mrs. McDade's gunslinging sons. Three of the four McDade boys are dead; the fourth is expected to return at any minute with the loot from a recent stagecoach robbery. Since no one knows which of the McDades is dead, all four wives make a play for the bemused Kehoe; he in turn responds to their advances, hoping to get a share of the gold. The fur really begins to fly when it turns out that one of the wives is a phony, who intends to double-cross the other three and ride off into the sunset with Kehoe. When King and Four Queens proved a box-office disappointment, Clark Gable gave up the notion of producing his own films and returned to freelancing at the major studios. Also stars Jo Van Fleet and Jay C. Flippen. 1956