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Ghost Riders World
I dunno about the best song ever, but this page full of Ghost Riders in the Sky versions is a pretty definitive rundown of one of the best melodies in country and western. It was written by a park ranger, which seems appropriate.
My Xmas gift this year was a set of 78 RPM records from the 1940's; someone's lovingly organized collection, stored in 6 fake-alligator skin binders that look like photo albums. And that how LPs became known as albums I suppose- 'cause people were already storing their discs in these things. Whoever assembled the 70 or so records in this collection had three versions of Ghost Riders; the Sons of the Pioneers, the Vaughn Monroe and the Burl Ives version included on this page. There's no other folk stuff or anything similar to Burl Ives, so they must have really loved this song. Going through these records is gradually giving a glimpse into someone's life. For some reason, I have a hard time picturing a 1940s version of a record nerd into Country music- I think of those habits as being confined to jazz fans until the LP era.
Anyways, the page has a ton of great versions. I don't have a copy handy, but the Trashman did a excellent take that falls somewhere between the Ventures and the Dick Dale version. And then there's this rough take from Radio Birdman. Radio Birdman were an Australian band that stumbled across the punk sound in the mid-70s, before it was even called punk. They drew from instro surf as much as the Ramones took from the Beach Boys, and their best cuts have hardly dated at all.
Radio Birdman - Ghost Riders.
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