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The tune and lyrics were collected and published in Carl Sandburg's 1927 American Songbag. [ 9 ] An important recording in this song's history was the 1927 Columbia Records master (15206-D) performed by Hugh Cross and Riley Puckett under the actual title of "Red River Valley".
"Take Me Back to Tulsa" is a Western swing standard song. Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan added words and music to the melody of the traditional fiddle tune "Walkin' Georgia Rose" in 1940. [3] The song is one of eight country music performances selected for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs That Shaped Rock & Roll". [4]
The following year, the melody and lyrics were collected and published in Carl Sandburg's American Songbag. [10] An article published in the Uvalde, Texas, Uvalde Leader-News in 1928 suggests that the origin of the song was the small town of Lohn, Texas. The article states that the song was originally about the Lohn Prairie, and was later ...
is "a delightful folksy lullaby with gorgeous harmonies, lilting country guitars and worldly wise lyrics". [6] Mick Mercer of Melody Maker described it as "a cornball country and western tune" which "slightly disguis[es] MacColl's usual cunning lyrics in there, concerning the problems with men's attitudes to women and the balance between carnal ...
The single was his follow up to "The Golden Rocket". "The Rhumba Boogie" was Hank Snow's third number one in a row on the Country & Western Best Seller chart where it stayed at the top for eight weeks and a total of twenty-seven weeks on the chart.
"Rawhide" is a Western song written by Ned Washington (lyrics) and composed by Dimitri Tiomkin in 1958. It was originally recorded by Frankie Laine. The song was used as the theme to Rawhide, a western television series that ran on CBS from 1959 to 1965. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of ...
[7] [15] Higley's original lyrics are similar to those of the modern version of the song, but not identical. For instance, the original poem did not contain the words "on the range". [13] Ranchers, cowboys, and other western settlers adopted the song as a rural anthem and it spread throughout the United States in various forms. [16]
"Ragtime Cowboy Joe" is a popular western swing song. The lyrics were written by Grant Clarke and the music was composed by Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams. It was copyrighted and published in 1912 by F.A. Mills. [1]