Paducah, Illinois

**Song:** *The Ballad of Paladin* **Popularized by:** Johnny Western **Written by:** Johnny Western, Richard Boone, and Francis M. Cockrell Best remembered as the theme from *Have Gun – Will Travel*, this 1950s television song names Paducah as the sort of out-of-the-way Western stop that fits the show's wandering-gunslinger mood. Western's rugged vocal made it widely recognizable, and the song became far more famous than many of the dusty towns it evokes.

Bloomington, Illinois, United States