Rawhide (song)

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"Rawhide"
Song by Frankie Laine
LanguageEnglish
Length2:00
Composer(s) Dimitri Tiomkin
Lyricist(s) Ned Washington

"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 all time. [1]

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Background

The song is about the job of a drover on a cattle drive.

In other media

Notable covers

See also

References

  1. Western Writers of America (2010). "The Top 100 Western Songs". American Cowboy. Archived from the original on 19 October 2010.
  2. Video on YouTube
  3. ufrp136 (2014-06-06), FRANK CHACKSFIELD - RAWHIDE, archived from the original on 2021-12-19, retrieved 2017-10-03{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. Chacksfield, Frank (3 October 2017). "Audio: Veronica news jingle with Dragnet and Rawhide".
  5. "Ensiferum "One Man Army"".
  6. Video on YouTube
  7. "New Zealand Railways. Rollin', rollin', rollin', rail freight". Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  8. Video on YouTube
  9. "Fedora Rawhide history" . Retrieved 26 June 2016.