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One Tin Soldier Rides Away – Billy’s Sacrifice


The culmination of the film. Billy sacrifices himself the Jean and the kids, choosing to negotiate his surrender rather than go out in his preferred warrior blaze of glory. The kids, in appreciation of…

‘Billy Jack’ Soundtrack Lust Poll

Tweet I’ve heard from a few ardent Billy Jack fans that they simply MUST HAVE the new, DTS HD-Master restored soundtrack (by our good friends at MiCasa Multimedia) or the world will end for them as they know it. While we certainly don’t doubt anyone’s sincerity, we’d like a bit bigger sampling. So we’ve created…

Original TV Commercial – ‘The Hug’


‘Billy Jack’ Recording Session

Tweet The soundtrack for the search of the school, and the freedom bus is recorded in Los Angeles. Groups of singers are bunched together to have on-screen and off-screen sound. Gwen Smith (Angela) is solo on a mike for her impressive vocals in both scenes. The session is being filmed, but I don’t have any…

‘One Tin Soldier’ Single

Tweet ‘Billy Jack’ was such a low-budget film, and was so not expected to succeed, that no record company wanted to release the soundtrack to the film. But when Tom re-released the film in 1973 he pioneered TV advertising and tagged each TV spot with a snippet of Jinx Dawson’s incredible version of ‘One Tin…