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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 ...
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]
In 1994, country music group Gibson/Miller Band recorded a cover version on its album Red, White and Blue Collar. This version peaked at #49 on the Hot Country Songs chart, and was featured in the soundtrack for the movie The Cowboy Way. [11] It also appeared on the band's second and final studio album, Red, White and Blue Collar.
Likewise, Bugs Bunny sings the song in both The Fair-Haired Hare (1951) and Oily Hare (1952), the latter containing original lyrics specific to Texas oilmen. The song is used in The Simpsons episode " Lisa's Substitute " (1991) in which Lisa is inspired by a substitute teacher who dresses as a cowboy and sings the song with commentary.
The 19th-century Manitoba song "Red River Valley" is played weekly on TV in the Philippines on a GMA TV comedy show titled Bubble Gang, with varied Tagalog humorous lyrics sung to the accompaniment of ukuleles, recurring from circa 2011 to present day by various performers.
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I Ride an Old Paint is a traditional American cowboy song, collected and published in 1927 by Carl Sandburg in his American Songbag. [1] [2] Traveling the American Southwest, Sandburg found the song through western poets Margaret Larkin and Linn Riggs.
"Jesse James" is a 20th-century American folk song about the outlaw of the same name, first recorded by Bentley Ball in 1919 [1] and subsequently by many others, including Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Vernon Dalhart, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, The Kingston Trio, The Pogues, The Ramblin' Riversiders, The Country Gentlemen, Willy DeVille, Van Morrison, Harry McClintock, Grandpa Jones, Bob Seger, The ...