Robert Mitchum wrote and sang two songs from "Thunder Road"
-- "The Ballad of Thunder Road" and "Whippoorwill." Both
appear on his first album, "That Man Robert Mitchum Sings".
He later released the aforementioned calypson album, the
re-release of which contains a cut or two from the first
album as well. "That Man....." has Mitchum singing fairly
well in a Sixties Dean Martin kind of style. Mitchum was
quite a fellow, very wide-ranging. He wrote an oratorio
produced by Orson Welles at the Hollywood Bowl, as well as
the previously mentioned songs. His role in the HB and noir
film genre cannot be underestimated, particularly in "Out of
the Past," (from Daniel Mainwaring's "Build My Gallows High")
and as Chandler's Marlowe in "Farewell My Lovely."
> Sounds great. I haven't seen the film, so I haven't
heard the song. But
> I understand from what you say that it's been
released, right? Has it
> ever been rereleased? "The Collected Songs of Robert
Mitchum"? Did he
> ever record any other songs?
>
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