GHOST RIDER IN THE SKY WINDOWS
On any normal occasion, she would have preferred the smooth train ride to Sabon-Gari, staring out the windows and soaking in the views of Zazzau, but this wasn’t normal. Zik straddled Bombay, brought her heels to its torso, and held on tight as its mechanical legs whirred into life. “A whole cluster, untethered, unbothered, what a sight! So you see why you have to buy my mangoes, they’ve been blessed by clouds!” “You don’t see that often,” the trader had said to the crowd, grappling her basket of mangoes. The nearest cloud cluster was sixty miles away, almost an hour’s journey if Bombay went at top speed.Ī fruit trader had seen it on her way to Sabon-Gari, floating lazily across the azure sky.
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So many of these old tales go back centuries, if not millenia. Here in the PA Dutch Country there are old tales of the Ewich Yaeger - the Eternal Huntsman - who, if I recall correctly, rides through the night with a pack of ghostly hunting dogs. I suspect that this song might have roots in much older tales. The first mention I could find for the Stan Jones release (Mercury 5320) in Billboard is in the issue (page 35). The same page says Jones' version was recorded and released in May 1949.
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states that the song was first recorded by Burl Ives on Febru(which agrees with the date in this article) and first released by Ives in March 1949. There are some references to the contrary. The early history of this recording isn't well documented but I've found no references that Stan Jones recorded the song in 1948 or before Burl Ives. The original version by Stan Jones was recorded in late 1948.īurl Ives, who recorded his own version a year later. GRITS has been occasionally sung and recorded to alternate tunes over the years - Google now not turning up results which were available some years ago.Ħ0.240.77.120 ( talk) 04:19, 13 February 2018 (UTC) Who recorded and released this song first? Stan Jones or Burl Ives? Which was written by Stan Jones in 1948. - Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.55.221.206 ( talk) 20:12, 7 February 2016 (UTC) Alternate Tunes. Was adapted from Johnny Cash's Ghost Riders in the Sky. Lou Sander ( talk) 15:13, 26 February 2015 (UTC) Adaptation I hope to find the time to do a thorough fix to this article.
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I am very interested in this song and others like it, due to my involvement at THIS SITE. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 15:01, 26 February 2015 (UTC) I agree, but first things first. IMHO, they missed the main point, above.) Lou Sander ( talk) 14:41, 26 February 2015 (UTC) A more pressing need is to improve the article itself.
GHOST RIDER IN THE SKY ARCHIVE
(The archive contains several prior discussions of this matter. I propose to move the article accordingly. That is the name that appears on most of the recordings, or at least the most important ones. The song's official ASCAP name is "Riders in the Sky". 3 Who recorded and released this song first? Stan Jones or Burl Ives?.