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When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama.
"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 ...
Its lyrics reflect more generally on human existence as a whole, as suggested in the line "They say the life of man is made up of four seasons". The song is built up around four basic verses. The first, coming after a brief intro on the guitar, reflects on the eponymous train, the 3:10 to Yuma.
A singing cowboy was a subtype of the archetypal cowboy hero of early Western films. It references real-world campfire side ballads in the American frontier.The original cowboys sang of life on the trail with all the challenges, hardships, and dangers encountered while pushing cattle for miles up the trails and across the prairies.
The Blues Brothers Band recorded the song as part of their 1998 film Blues Brothers 2000. [citation needed] Ned Sublette recorded the song, in a Cuban-influenced style, on his 1999 album "Cowboy Rumba". [21] In the 1993 video game Back to the Future Part III the song is rendered in Chiptune for background music during the first level.
Film Music, Vol. 1: The Collection (1987) Film Music, Vol. 2 (1988) Once Upon a Time in the West: 20 Famous Film Tracks of Ennio Morricone (1989) Zijn Grootste Successen (1990) Chamber Music (1990) The Legendary Italian Westerns (1990) Original Film Musik Von Ennio Morricone (1993) 93 Movie Sounds (1994) Classic Ennio Morricone (1994)
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.
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