My neighbor and I as kids found this, I think it was a 78 record in the garage and played the hell out of it. Nice to know other people can hear it here, it, hear it here, it, oooh....damn! skip in my brain!
Yes, "Hell Bent For Leather" was made in 1961 I bought my copy the day it came out. The Mule Train that was on your album was a remake from this album and not the Mercury Hit version of 1949.
This came out when I was about 10, about 1950. It must have been in the colder months of the year. We had a wood burning stove in the kitchen and I remember singing this song while I was taking the wood upstairs from the basement. It was my very first "favorite song".