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The words of the labor song "The Ballad of Bloody Thursday" – inspired by a deadly clash between strikers and police during the 1934 San Francisco longshoremen's strike – also follow the "Streets of Laredo" pattern and tune. As for "The Cowboy's Lament/Streets of Laredo" itself, Austin E. and Alta S. Fife in Songs of the Cowboys (1966) say
“Jody Like a Melody” is probably one of my favorite songs because as a songwriter, up until I had written that song, I had been writing songs in three chords, you know, real simple stuff. In that song I wrote the string arrangements and key changes and everything. It opened up a lot of doors for me.
Vikingarna recorded an instrumental version of the song on the 1981 album Kramgoa låtar 9, entitled "Home on the Ranch". [28] [29] An instrumental version of the song was used in the 2011 video game, Rage. In 2016, the American progressive rock band Kansas released a version of the song as a bonus track on their album The Prelude Implicit.
"Ragtime Cowboy Joe" is also the fight song of the University of Wyoming. Traditionally, Cowboy fans stand and clap to the beat of the song as played by Wyoming's Western Thunder Marching Band. The version of the song appropriated by Wyoming was written by Francis Edwin Stroup (1909–2010) [3] in 1961. He rewrote the chorus. [4]
Dave Dudley (born David Darwin Pedruska; [1] May 3, 1928 – December 22, 2003) [2] was an American country music singer best known for his truck-driving country anthems of the 1960s and 1970s and his semi-slurred bass.
The Blues Brothers Band recorded the song as part of their 1998 film Blues Brothers 2000. [citation needed] Ned Sublette recorded the song, in a Cuban-influenced style, on his 1999 album "Cowboy Rumba". [21] In the 1993 video game Back to the Future Part III the song is rendered in Chiptune for background music during the first level.
You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song is an album by folk singer Ella Jenkins. She is joined by members of the Urban Gateways Children's Chorus. [ 2 ] It was added to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2007.
Wakely earlier recorded the song as "Oklahoma Blues." This one (with "City") is a little shorter, but has the same words and tune. [253] "Oklahoma City Blues" – Neal Pattman, 1999. [254] (Wakely's and Pattman's songs are two completely different compositions.)