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Cowboys up and down the trail revised The Cowboy's Lament, and in his memoir, Maynard alleged that cowboys from Texas changed the title to "The Streets of Laredo" after he claimed authorship of the song in a 1924 interview with journalism professor Elmo Scott Watson, then on the faculty of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. [3]
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.
The many variants feature various young soldiers, sailors, maids, and cowboys, being "cut down in their prime" and contemplating their deaths. [14] It has been claimed that a similar story set to a different tune become the standard "St. James Infirmary Blues". [15] This claim has been disputed on various grounds. [16]
He recorded eight songs for Columbia Records "The Cowboy's Lament (Columbia 2310-D 149832 and "The Lone Star Trail" (Columbia 2310=D 149833) became the only issued album. Ken Maynard donated the eight one-sided pressings of his 4/14/1930 recording session with Columbia Records to the John Edwards Memorial Foundation.
Klapper was a real-life cowboy who features in a poignant cameo in the episode. When Rip (Cole Houser) is in Pampa, Texas, moving a cattle heard south, Lloyd (Forrie J. Smith) tells him he had an ...
Legendary cowboy and spur maker Billy Klapper had a cameo in season 5, episode 9 of 'Yellowstone,' and was also honored following his recent death.
The scenes bounce to the cowboy’s pushing cattle, the president’s visit, then back to Monica and Summer. “If you want to know John Dutton, you’re in the right place,” Monica says, as ...
Sammy Davis Jr., appears in the episode "Blue Boss and Willie Shay" (March 12, 1961) as singing cowboy Willie Shay, who sings part of the western song, "The Streets of Laredo," also known as "The Cowboy's Lament".