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The song has been called a modern-day classic, and is said to be known by just about everyone who's worked on a ranch. [1] Michael Martin Murphey has called it the "Mr. Bojangles" of cowboy music. [5] Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. [6]
Gary Lynn Fjellgaard (born August 14, 1937) [1] is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter.. He has released fifteen albums and charted thirty-five songs on the RPM Country Tracks chart between 1977 and 1996, including the Top 10 singles "Walk in the Rain Tonight" (#10, 1987 [2]), "The Moon Is Out to Get Me" (with Linda Kidder, No. 10, 1989 [3]), "Cowboy in Your Heart" (#7, 1989 [4 ...
Cowboy Christmas: Cowboy Songs II is the seventeenth album by American singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphey, his second album of cowboy songs, and his first album of Christmas music. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Track listing
Gary McMahan (born 1948 in Greeley, Colorado) is an American Western music singer-songwriter, yodeler, humorist and cowboy poet, known for his wide-ranging influence in post-19th century Western music and poetry, and for writing "The Old Double Diamond", which members of the Western Writers of America chose as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
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.
With his father, he started his own record label, American Cowboy Songs, in 1970. Under that label he released 22 albums between 1971 and 1990. After gaining recognition from the 1989 Garth Brooks song, " Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old) " he was signed to Liberty Records , where he released 4 studio albums in four years.
The song became a staple of the underscore of western films, to the point of being stereotyped. It also lent itself well to parody. In the 1943 cartoon "Yankee Doodle Daffy", Daffy Duck puts on a cowboy hat and rides Porky Pig like a horse, as the exasperated pig is trying to get rid of and away from the annoying duck, who sings these not-overly-clever lyrics to the same tune: [citation needed]
"Streets of Laredo" (Laws B01, Roud 23650), [1] also known as "The Dying Cowboy", is a famous American cowboy ballad in which a dying ranger tells his story to another cowboy. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.