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"(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" [a] is a cowboy-styled country/western song written in 1948 by American songwriter Stan Jones. [2] A number of versions were crossover hits on the pop charts in 1949, the most successful being by Vaughn Monroe. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as the greatest western song of all ...
Vaughn Wilton Monroe (October 7, 1911 – May 21, 1973) [1] was an American baritone singer, trumpeter and big band leader who was most popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame , one for recording and another for radio performance.
Claire played drums, sang, and arranged the songs; Rich played saxophone. [1] They added Vinny Lee on lead guitar, and Gene Morro on second guitar. [1] At the end of 1960, they recorded their instrumental arrangement of "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky", a song written by Stan Jones which had been a big hit in 1949 for Vaughn Monroe. [1]
Spike's 1949 parody of Vaughn Monroe's rendition of "Ghost Riders in the Sky" was performed as if sung by a drunkard and ridiculed Monroe by name in its final stanza: [11] [12] CHORUS: ...'cause all we hear is "Ghost Riders" sung by Vaughn Monroe. I.W. HARPER: I can do without his singing. SIR FREDERICK GAS: But I wish I had his dough!
In his free time he wrote songs, and eventually more than 100 were recorded. His most famous, "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky", was written in 1948 (or 1949) [1] when he worked for the National Park Service in Death Valley, California. As the guide for a group of Hollywood scouts who were looking at potential locations for films, he sang "Riders in ...
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Ryan Gosling brought the house down at the 2024 Oscars on Sunday, with his long-awaited performance of "I'm Just Ken" from the Barbie movie.Gosling was joined by the song's producers, Mark Ronson ...
"Riders on the Storm" has been classified as a psychedelic rock, [8] jazz rock, [9] [10] art rock song, [11] and a precursor of gothic music. [12] [13] According to guitarist Robby Krieger and keyboardist Ray Manzarek, it was inspired by the country song "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend", written by Stan Jones and popularized by Vaughn Monroe. [14]