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The earliest written version of the song was published in John Lomax's Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads in 1910. It would first be recorded by Carl T. Sprague in 1926, and was released on a 10" single through Victor Records. [9] The following year, the melody and lyrics were collected and published in Carl Sandburg's American Songbag.
"Streets of Laredo" (Laws B01, Roud 23650), [1] also known as "The Dying Cowboy", is a famous American cowboy ballad in which a dying ranger tells his story to another cowboy. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
The song was written during the Urban Cowboy fad [7] while living with his wife in Manhattan next to a gay country bar on Christopher Street called Boots and Saddles. He explains, "Gay life in 1981 was very vibrant in those days. It was part of the culture of the city and cowboy imagery is a part of gay iconography." He wrote the song with ...
This list (like the article List of the Child Ballads) also serves as a link to articles about the songs, which may use a very different song title. The songs are listed in the index by accession number, rather than (for example) by subject matter or in order of importance. Some well-known songs have low Roud numbers (for example, many of the ...
My Cowboy's Last Ride; My God Is Real (Yes, God Is Real) (My) Grandfather's Clock; My Merry Christmas Song; My Mother Was A Lady; My Old Faded Rose; My Old Kentucky Home (Turpentine And Dandelion Wine) My Ship Will Sail; My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You; My Treasure; My Wife June At Sea Of Galilee; The Mystery Of Life; Mystery Of Number Five
It was this song that Patsy Montana reworked into her million-seller hit "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" (1935). Hamblen wrote the hit songs " This Ole House " (1954) (popularized by Rosemary Clooney, among others) and " Open Up Your Heart (And Let the Sunshine In) " (not to be confused with the song from the Broadway musical Hair ).
John Forrest "Fuzzy" Knight (May 9, 1901 – February 23, 1976) was an American film and television actor. He was also a singer, especially in his early career. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1928 and 1967, usually as a cowboy hero's comic sidekick.
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.