What's the "cowboy music" called?

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It’s nearly high noon. Two cowboys are facing eachother, hands hovering above their holsters. A tumbleweed blows by, and a familiar tune starts playing. But what is the name of it? Is it part of some larger piece, or does it just stand on its own with a few bars?

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it can be heard in a recent commercial (for Mountain Dew, I think) where two guys are having a showdown in an amusement park. Also, at the beginning of the Vandal’s “Urban Struggle” aka I Want to be a Cowboy.

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I have never heard the Vandals song, but one piece of music that is very frequently used in gunfight-showdown scenes is from Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack score for The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

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Is it the theme to The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly by Ennio Morricone? That’s what I think of when I think of dueling cowboys.

[whistle whistle whis] whaa whaa whaa

4

Rio, by Duran Duran.

ducks

Seriously, another vote for GB&U. I’d have left it alone, except mobo’s description of the song was exactly the one I was going to use, if I couldn’t find somewhere I could confirm had a working clip of the song. (Which I didn’t.)

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The tune at the beginning of Urban Struggle (I want to be a cowboy) are from the theme to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. You should watch it some time, it’s a hoot.

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Perhaps the tune * “60 seconds to what?” * from the film For A Few Dollars More.

The scene : a musical pocket watch plays its chimes. The two gunslingers will start shooting when the chimes stop.

You can hear it here

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