Ghost Riders In The Sky

[fire>everything]

http://rapidshare.com/files/2041100...rs_in_the_Sky___BEST_version_around_.mp3.html

 

[Vartha]

Thanks Gotta find a good metal version that would round out all the different types of covers.

 

[Vartha]

I Nominate Fire As Our New Music Guy!

 

[fire>everything]

Metal? Not sure...only other two versions I've got is one by Ventures and the other by REM. I'm still lookin' around, but it's like a blind search on my end.

*cough.* gal *cough.*

 

[Vartha]

LOL ok MUSIC "PERSON"
Well there are two metal, the one from Sodom and the one from Impladed Nazarene, the 2nd is the newer one, but according to what I've read the Sodom one is a Country/Thrash mix.
HMM Rem and Ventures huh....may have to add those later this Duane Eddy one will be the last one before I got to get ready for work.

 

[fire>everything]

Sounds good.
I'll keep ya'posted if I find either...have fun at work.

 

[crazy sock]

from wikipedia: Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riders_in_the_Sky:_A_Cowboy_Legend

this should help you guys out in finding out whoever has covered the song.
Recordings
The Burl Ives version was recorded on February 17, 1949 and released by Columbia Records as catalog number 38445. The recording first appeared on the Billboard charts on April 22, 1949, lasting 6 weeks and peaking at position #21.

The Vaughn Monroe version was recorded on March 14, 1949 and released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-3411. The recording first appeared on the Billboard charts on April 15, 1949, lasting 22 weeks and peaking at position #1.

The Bing Crosby version was recorded on March 22, 1949 and released by Decca Records as catalog number 24618. The recording first appeared on the Billboard charts on May 6, 1949, lasting 6 weeks and peaking at position #14.

The Peggy Lee version was recorded on April 18, 1949 and released by Capitol Records as catalog number 57-608.

The Spike Jones version was recorded on May 24, 1949 and released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-3741. Copies of the original release, containing lyrics ridiculing RCA stockholder Vaughn Monroe, are rare.

In the UK, the best-known version is that by The Ramrods, which reached number 8 in 1961.

Duane Eddy brought his electrified "twangy guitar" sound along with a sax edition by Jim Horn to a 1966 version on an RCA Album of Duane's best.

Riders in the Sky recorded this song on their debut album, Three on the Trail in 1979, and several of their subsequent albums.

Johnny Cash made a recording in 1979 which was faithful to the original.

The rock band The Outlaws made a recording in 1980 which was faithful to the original.

A version by The Shadows reached number 12 in the UK singles chart in 1980.

Milton Nascimento recorded a version in Portuguese as Cavaleiros Do Céu on his 1981 album Caçador de Mim.

Impaled Nazarene recorded a black metal version of the song, which was released on Sadogoat EP in 1993. Later it was included in the CD version of their bonus album Tol Cormpt Norz Norz Norz.

Ned Sublette included a merengue rendition on his Cowboy Rumba (1999).

The Blues Brothers performed the song in the movie, Blues Brothers 2000. Similar to the "Rawhide" scene in the first movie, the band is mistakenly booked at blue grass festival (announced to the crowd as the "Bluegrass Brothers").

The heavy metal band Die Apokalyptischen Reiter recorded a version that was released on their 2006 single, Friede Sei Mit Dir.

Me First and The Gimme Gimmes covered the song on their 2006 album Love Their Country.

Singer/comedian Sean Morey has recorded a parody called "Ghost Chickens in the Sky", in which the ghosts of chickens hunt a chicken farmer. It ends with the line, "they cooked him extra crispy/and served him with coleslaw".

The German metal band Desperados, which featured members of Sodom, sang a version that can be described as a mix of country and thrash metal.

Deborah Harry, lead singer of Blondie, recorded a techno version of the song which features on the soundtrack to the film "Three Businessmen". The song was available at one time for free on her website deborahharry.com.

The Irish Brigade, an Irish Republican band, recorded the song with different lyrics and named it "The S.A.M. Song" referring to Surface to Air Missiles which had been procured by the Provisional IRA.

Both Dick Dale and The Ventures made surf rock covers of the song.

Raphael recorded a version in Spanish.

Singer and actor Armand Mestral recorded a version in French (Les Cavaliers du Ciel) in the early fifties.

During his tour as "Giant Robot" Buckethead played a dub style version of the song.

During the credits of the film version of Ghost Rider a rock cover by the band SpiderBait is played. An Instrumental of it is also heard at points in the film.

Recordings have also been made by the Boston Pops, Lawrence Welk, REM, Fred Penner, The Dixie Chicks, and The Doors.

Parodies
During a writers' strike, an episode of the Smothers Brothers' television variety show featured a chorus of men and women wearing Groucho glasses and singing "Ghost Writers in Disguise."
Gary Larson has also touched on the theme in his popular cartoon The Far Side. The cartoon features a woman calling out "Henry! Hurry or you're gonna miss it - ghost riders in the kitchen!" as a pair of phantom riders herd some steer through her home.
The song is also used by supporters of the Aston Villa Football Club. The lyrics are changed to "Holtenders in the Sky" in reference to the hardcore fans who sit in Villa Park's infamous main stand: The Holte End.


"(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" is a country and cowboy-style song. It was written on June 5, 1948 by Stan Jones. [1] A number of versions were also [[crossover hit]s] on the pop charts in 1949.

Also Sesame Street Had the Dirtiest town in the west. Where A marshall came to show the townsfolk how to clean their town. The song features the same melody as the original Ghost Riders in the sky.



The song is about a cowboy who has a vision of red-eyed, fire-breathing cattle thundering across the sky, being chased by the ghosts of damned cowboys. One warns him that if he does not change his ways he will be doomed to join them, forever "trying to catch the Devil's herd across the endless skies." More than fifty different artists have recorded versions of this classic. Charting versions were recorded by Vaughn Monroe (with orchestra and vocal quartet), by Bing Crosby (with the Ken Darby Singers), and by Burl Ives. Other contemporary versions were recorded by Peggy Lee (with the Jud Conlon Singers), and by Spike Jones and his City Slickers, with the most recent version of the song being performed by Spiderbait, for the 2007 movie Ghost Rider.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Aasgaardreien_peter_nicolai_arbo_mindre.jpg

 

[fire>everything]

Hope this is the right version you were lookin' for Vartha. Only luck I had for the metal one. No find on Sodom's version.

http://rapidshare.com/files/20441055/_Impaled_Nazarene__-_01_-_Ghost_Riders.mp3.html

 

[Vartha]

ooOOOoo was expecting Ventures and REM when I got back lol this could be better. lol thanks again!

 

[Ultimate Movie-Man]

What I have in order is:
Vaughn 1949
spike jones 1949
duane 1966
Cash 1979
Marshall tucker 1981
Deborah Harry 1998
Blues Bro.s 2000
Me first and the Gimmes 2006
Spiderbait 2006

Isn't Spiderbait's version technically 2007?

 

[Vartha]

Well I'm not sure U.M.M., I thought they had recorded it in 2006, I could be wrong.
As for the Nazrene version, I think I'll leave that one off the cd, it's a nice find, but not really THAT great.

 

[Ultimate Movie-Man]

well you can shoot a movie like Epic Movie in 2006 but it's the release date ie 2007.

I think its the same for music

Well whatever year it is, it should be last IMO

 

[Vartha]

Yeah Spiderbaits is the newest version, the Gimme's version did come out last year.

 

[fire>everything]

Sorry-I have those two up now. They're better than the last one I put up.
http://rapidshare.com/files/20501498/Ventures_-_Ghostriders_in_the_Sky.mp3.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/20501736/REM_-_19_-_Ghostriders_in_the_Sky.mp3.html

 

[Vartha]

COOL Thanks again Fire! I'll have something to listen to tonight at work lol

 

[fire>everything]

Welcome. And I now have something to listen to in my govn't class. Score!

 

[Vartha]

Well the problem of the type of Music Nazrene plays is it sounds like they mix english and german, and even most group don't sing that kind of metal too well. I've rarely understood a death metal band

 

[fire>everything]

Ah, well, I feel the same way you do then. I'll stick to Pantera or Slayer if I want anything like that.
I'm still curious of how the Sodom version sounds, but to the looks of things, it might be a while before I find it. Oh well.

 

[zer00]

Fantastical

 

[Vartha]

...... fantastical??? who are you and what did you do with Zer00?

 

[jgreenjr]

the guy did the song is stan jones wrote it back in 1948 and also check out outlaws sing it too

jgreenjr

 

[Vartha]

Yup have the outlaws version too.
Welcome aboard by the way lol, not that too much is going on these days.

 

[jgreenjr]

Yup have the outlaws version too.
Welcome aboard by the way lol, not that too much is going on these days.

i have fender guitar i might play it lol cool can't that song off my head hihi

and thank you for welcome to aboard !