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This album is a collection of favorite Western tunes inspired by the Woody's Roundup TV show featured in the film Toy Story 2, including a number of original Riders compositions, songs by longtime Toy Story composer Randy Newman, and cover songs. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children at the Grammy Awards of 2001.
Riders in the Sky is an American Western music and comedy group which began performing in 1977. [1] The band has released more than 40 albums, starred in a single-season self-titled television series on CBS, wrote and starred in an NPR syndicated radio drama Riders Radio Theater, and appeared in television series and films including as featured contributors to Ken Burns' Country Music.
It is the theme song for the Woody's Roundup television show, while also being used in the end-credit music. The film carried over one song from Toy Story , "You've Got a Friend in Me," sung at two different points during the film by Tom Hanks as Woody and Robert Goulet, the singing voice of Wheezy.
Woody sees this and has an epiphany, realizing that his mission as a toy is to be there for a child. The Woody's Roundup version was performed by Tom Hanks , with acoustic guitar backing; Wheezy's version was sung by Robert Goulet (though the character was voiced by Joe Ranft ); and the Spanish version, "You've Got a Friend in Me (Para el Buzz ...
The two songs made their first US album appearance on Yesterday and Today, released in the U.S. on June 20, 1966. When the single was reissued on Apple Records in 1971, "Act Naturally" had the "full apple" side and "Yesterday" ended up on the "sliced apple" side. [15]
Douglas Bruce Green (born March 20, 1946), better known by his stage name Ranger Doug, is an American musician, arranger, award-winning Western music songwriter, and Grand Ole Opry member best known for his work with Western music and the group Riders in the Sky in which he plays guitar and sings lead and baritone vocals.
The album is a “Record Store Day Black Friday Exclusive” limited-edition special and copies are likely to vanish as soon as they hit the shelves — don’t worry, such releases usually land ...
Live is a live recording by the Western band Riders in the Sky released in 1984. It is available as a single CD. It was recorded at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia, on March 5 and 6, 1983.