title: Stan Kenton! Tex Ritter!
text: # Stan Kenton! Tex Ritter!
  
  Stan Kenton! Tex Ritter! is an album by the Stan Kenton Orchestra with country music vocalist Tex Ritter performing country music compositions arranged in a big band style recorded and released by Capitol Records in 1962.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | Allmusic | |
  
  The Allmusic review by Bruce Eder noted "overall this wasn't the worst idea in the world. The public never bought it, however, and the album was quickly deleted".
  
  ## Track listing
  
  * "The Bandit of Brazil" (Alfredo Nascimento, Michael Carr, John Turner) – 2:23
  * "The Green Leaves of Summer" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:24
  * "Home on the Range" (Traditional) – 3:18
  * "Wagon Wheels" (Billy Hill, Peter DeRose) – 2:09
  * "Empty Saddles" (Hill) – 2:36
  * "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)" (Tiomkin, Ned Washington) – 2:42
  * "Cool Water" (Bob Nolan) – 2:34
  * "September Song" (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) – 3:57
  * "Red River Valley" (Traditional) – 3:56
  * "Cimarron (Roll On)" (Johnny Bond) – 3:20
  * "Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle" (Teddy Powell, Walter G. Samuels, Leonard Whitcup 2:45
  * "The Last Round Up" (Hill) – 3:42
  * Recorded at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, CA on March 26, 1962 (tracks 7 & 8), March 29, 1962 (tracks 2, 3, 5 & 9) and March 30, 1962 (tracks 1, 4, 6 & 10–12).
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Stan Kenton – piano, celeste, arranger, conductor (tracks 2, 3, 5 & 7–9)
  * Tex Ritter – vocals
  * Dee Barton, Bob Fitzpatrick, Newell Parker – trombone
  * Jim Amlotte, – bass trombone
  * Dave Wheeler – bass trombone, tuba
  * Dwight Carver, Gene Roland, Carl Saunders, Ray Starling – mellophonium
  * Lex de Azevedo – piano, celeste (tracks 1, 4, 6 & 10–12)
  * Alvino Rey – console guitar
  * Don Bagley – bass
  * Art Anton – drums
  * Lennie Niehaus – arranger, conductor (tracks 1, 4, 6 & 10–12)
  