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Subsequently, the first three notes of Foy's song and the title were used by Dale Evans in writing her version of "Happy Trails" for both the original The Roy Rogers Show and the short-lived The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show, which aired on ABC in 1962. Dale's is the version that is popularly played and sung today, albeit without giving credit ...
It was the title song of the 1945 Roy Rogers film Along the Navajo Trail. It was also used in the 1945 film Don't Fence Me In, when it was sung by Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers. [2] Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. [3]
In 1945, the song was sung again as the title tune of another Roy Rogers film, Don't Fence Me In (1945), in which Dale Evans plays a magazine reporter who comes to Roy Rogers' and Gabby Whittaker's (George "Gabby" Hayes) ranch to research her story about a legendary late gunslinger. When it's revealed that Whittaker is actually the supposedly ...
In 1933, Gene Autry and Jimmie Long made it into a cowboy song with some revisions of the lyrics, for example, replacing "no other darkey knows her, no darkey only me" with "no other fellow knows her, nobody else but me." Roy Rogers performed a version of the song in the 1944 film The Yellow Rose of Texas. The lyrics continued to evolve in the ...
The earliest commercial recording of the song was by Harry "Mac" McClintock in 1929 (released on Victor V-40016 as "Get Along, Little Doggies"). Roy Rogers performed the song in the 1940 film West of the Badlands. Bing Crosby covered the song for his 1959 album How the West Was Won. [5] The Kingston Trio covered the song for their 1962 album ...
1943 King of the Cowboys [7] - sung by Roy Rogers. 1947 The Mild West, a Paramount Noveltoon, in a bouncing ball sequence; 1954 I Love Lucy - sung by Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance in the season 3 episode "Home Movies". 1987 Innerspace - Robert Picardo performs a verse. [8] 2012 Men in Black 3 - The Sons of the Pioneers version is heard. [9]
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. [10]
Performed by Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes and the Sons of the Pioneers I'm A Happy Guy In My Levi Britches; Written by Tim Spencer Performed by Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers Cowboy Jubilee; Written by Ken Carson Performed by Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers The Nerve Of Some People; Written by Jack Elliott