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Along Came Jones: Directed by Stuart Heisler. With Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, Dan Duryea. A good-natured saddle tramp traveling with his sidekick is mistaken for a ruthless outlaw with a price on his head.
Classic Coasters.
Along Came Jones is a 1945 American Western comedy film directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, and Dan Duryea. The film was adapted by Nunnally Johnson from the 1944 novel Useless Cowboy by Alan Le May .
"Along Came Jones" is a comedic song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally recorded by the Coasters, in 1959 peaking at number 9 in the Billboard Hot 100 but recorded by many other groups and individuals in the years that followed.
Grumpy George (William Demarest) and laconic Melody Jones (Gary Cooper, also the producer) mosey into a town they don't know is threatened by a gunman with the initials "MJ," writer and co-producer Nunnally Johnson playing a pun, co-star Loretta Young introduced, in Along Came Jones, 1945.
Along Came Jones. by The Coasters. Album: The Ultimate Coasters ( 1959) Charted: 9. License This Song . songfacts ®. I plopped down in my easy chair and turned on Channel Two. A bad gunslinger called Salty Sam was chasin' poor Sweet Sue. He trapped her in the old sawmill and said with an evil laugh.
Melody Jones (Gary Cooper) is a laid-back cowboy who gets lost on the trail and ends up in the small town of Payneville. Seeing the initials "MJ" on his saddle, the people of...
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