When I was 8 yrs old and living in Okinawa, this was my favorite song. Vaughn Monroe's voice still brings back memories of a little girl who loved cowboys while living on a small island in the Pacific.
The part that never fails to send chills down my spine is "If you wanna save your soul from Hell a' ridein' on your range then cowboy change your ways today or with us you will ride, tryin to catch the Devil's heard across these endless skies."
I love on Vaugh to listen to Vaughn Monroe and ghost riders in the sky since I was a kid. I'm 74 years old now and it's still a terrific song that I listen to very often. I'm still mesmerized by his. voice
I'll be 71 in a few months and it was a long time after I first heard the song that I ever heard a version by anyone by anyone but Vaugh Monroe. I still prefer his version to anyone else's.
@@daveboley8371 I'm a 49 years old french citizen borned in Morrocco and I love this song...the first voice i heard was J. Cash...but Vaugh's voice is better.
The very first record I purchased. I was 6. I put it in the back of my uncle's Buick and it melted! I was devastated! It's a beginning anchor point for my life's timeline. I'm 72 now.
When this song was issued it was about 1948/49 when I was six years old. I would always try to tune our large, wooden, tube type radio for this tune. It was my favorite and I still periodically return to listen again and again. The old westerns were my favorites along with the radio "serials". We had this old radio up until the mid 1960"s !!! The music is still available - amazing !!!!!.
I first heard this song on my grandma's record player. It was about 1958 & I was 5. His voice is perfect for the song! I have this saved on my phone, along with many others! & I listen to them often.❤
In 1949 I sat in front of our large old wooden tube type radio completely mesmerized while listening to this song. It was my favorite, along with a couple of Roy Rogers songs. Thanks to modern technology, I can pop this up anytime and enjoy my past memories. Of course now I am mature enough to understand its message.
An 87 year old patient sang this today while listening to the "best of jazz and swing" music channel they play for the seniors in the hospital. Broke my heart a little...
@@ernestogasulla7763 That floored me, too. I was 8 when I heard it on our old radio, and it stayed in my memory as a magnificent song by a singer without equal.
Beyond doubt, the quintessential version of this song. May I recommend "My Lady Love" by Vaughn to any fans who are just discovering my hero. Kind regards from an 87 year old English fan. January, 2024.
I loved Vaughn Monroe's voice when I was little. I grew up on Highway 101 in northern California, and "Terror of Highway 101" was the song I first remember hearing by him. This and Burl Ives' versions of "Ghost Riders" are my favorites.
I watched the movie Singing Guns and he sang 3 songs in that movie WOW WHAT A VOICE that man has. Wish I knew what the name of the movie is where this song was sung.
When I was in the second grade, I fell in love with song and this version of it. Being a careless kid, the 78 rpm's that Mom and Dad got for me had a way of getting broken and the cost of replacements stretched their budget but they came through.
This song come out in the late 1940' and continued through today. I was an elementary school student in the late 40's and early 1950's and I sat in front of our old large wooden tube type radio and tuned in to one of the few channels that were broadcasting. This was my favorite song, along with Tumbling Tumbleweed. This particular version was/is still my favorite and I periodically return to hear it again. Thanks
"our old large wooden tube type radio and tuned in to one of the few channels that were broadcasting" Was there, did that, same kind of radio. Wish I had it now.
Here it is 5 yrs later and I'm hoping this answer gets to you. I was a WWII baby and heard this as a small boy in the late 1940s or early 1950s. The lyric's poetry moved me because Monroe was so understandable in his lyrics. I've remembered this song for 75 yrs now. I still love to hear Monroe's voice. I hope there are still oldsters in another 75 years who hear it and feel the movement of its message.
@@nomadpi1 I must have posted here before now, but wanted to join you in admiring Vaughn Monroe, and assure you that those of us born in that era are still kicking and thankful to have YT to remind us of how good we had life as children, during some scary times for our adults in the family.
Did you ever hear "In My Adobe Hacienda?" Not until I researched all aspects of historical Mexico for my novels did I learn that a hacienda is the entire estate. The HOUSE might be adobe or rock and is called the casa grande, or the Big House.
I still enjoy returning back to hear this tune. I can still remember as a child riding my broom wooden stick horse around the house while listening to this song.
I am attempting to introduce a my latest adopted son (PS he just turned 40) to music from the 1940 and 50's. Eventually everything that is old is becomes new again.
All of you viewers here who were young and impressionable around 1956 - 1959, please read my quest and if you can help, I'd be overjoyed. During those years, here in Burke County NC, our local radio station played an introductory theme to the broadcast called Rhythm Rendezvous. That site doesn't display what I hear but it's own into that goes right into music that was contemporary at the time. The theme I heard apparently had orchestration with instruments that throbbed like drums and sounded like galloping horses. It stayed in my head for decades, but is starting to fade due to my sampling of recordings that held promise. I was advised to ask the radio station, which had changed hands and those in charge now claimed not to have any archives of programming in those years.
At four-score years of age now, I first heard this song as a small boy. This is the best version. No other singer has had the ability to make it believable. No one. Vaughn Monroe's voice is the perfect tonal pitch for this poetic reading of an old cowboy's spiritual anthem. Even small children understood this poem because Monroe's singing lyrics were so understandable. I hope someone else in another four-score years can also appreciate it.
I was twelve when I first played this on 78 RPM, part of a bunch of records a neighbor gave us as he was moving away. I wore the record out. This song and the flip side "Single Saddle", which is one of the best cowboy songs I've ever heard.
Ol' Leather Lungs could sure belt them out. Take a look at his other songs too, "Dance Ballarina", "Racing with the Moon", "Let it snow" is also one of my favorites of his.
The imagry his voice mixed with the haunting pained ghostly chorus conjured such terrifying images for me as a child but I loved it! This music touches the soul..
Many of the posts here echo my experience in the early days, listening to our radio, and loving Vaughn Monroe. I still like THIS version better than any of the many I've sampled since then.
Monroe had an immediately recognizable voice + being my favorite male big band male singer of his time & this along with Johnny Cash are the greatest performances of this my #1 western song of all although I am no expert when it comes to these type of music.
This was the first time (2022) that I heard the original. The version I had heard was J. Cash. It is nice to hear it being sung. I figure he covered it but didn’t know who did the original.
When l retired , l bought a Fender Jazz bass, and this was the first tune l could thump out. Fifty years is a long time to wait, but first things first. Still thumping out tunes from my early years.😁😁😁😁
This song came out toward the end of 1948 and the next year V. Monroe recorded it and made it a real hit. I listened to it on our old large wooden console tube type radio. It was one of my favorites. It has almost been 65+ years and I still enjoy it. Thanks
I keep a radio in my room and I have it on a local AM station that plays music from the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's. This song scared the crap out of me when I was younger, especially when it came on at 3 A.M., that was the worst. Anyone else?
Someone gave me a 78-rpm copy of this when I was a kid. That copy's long gone but I found a replacement 78 at a flea market some years ago. My son still loves it today.
I think this is the best version of "Ghost Riders." Vaughn Monroe had a wonderful voice -- with sort of a spooky quality here. Of course, I remember all the air play "Black Leather Jacket and Motorcycle Boots (Terror of Highway 101)" very well, too ( I grew up in small towns on that highway)!
Russ Dee, your comment made me look up what song was number one on my birth date, it was one of my favorites, Frankie Laine's "That Lucky Old Sun." I never knew that, but I really do love the song, Ghost Riders too.
Ghost Riders in the Sky was one of the 45's on a table next to my parent's record player in the 50's. Sugartime by the Mcguire Sisters and Volare by Domenico Modugno were other favorites. Today, unfortunately, there is a wide assortment of crap and very little music
My favorite recording of this song, with the Sons of the Pioneers backing up the great Vaughn Monroe! After I heard this years ago I went to Amazon and purchased 'The Very Best of Vaughn Monroe.' 20 songs including 'Racing With the Moon' (Vaughan's Theme). I also really liked 'When the Lights Go On Again (All Over the World).' A song about England and Europe during WWII and when the blackout would finally end and the lights would go on again. And of course the song that was at the very end of the movie 'Die Hard,' Vaughn's great version of 'Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!' 9 of the 20 songs hit #1, including 'Riders in the Sky,' and 7 more were in the Top Ten!
This is one of those songs I remember from childhood, Billy Vaughn's Shifting "Whispering Sands" being another one, that has stayed in my memory banks for 60 plus years. You have done a very nice video to accompany the song and the lyrics are special to read. This is my favorite of all the recordings. Thanks for this nice video.
ettab47, I agree with all that you have said...though I might be your Senior by some years, I remember Monroe and his songs from that era. And I too want to say thanks for this nice video.
The Batman That's probably the nicest words ever directed to me....my wife has always said that I was "Tasteless"; no pun intended! But what does she know? She's just a "durl"; a word I invented to describe the "fairer sex". The truth is; men are more romantic than women!* Ergo we know good music when we hear it..... *It's a fact....Sociologists have deigned that we guys are more "Romantic"!
Certainly the best VOICE ever to record this. I knew Frankie Laine's haunting, clear-voiced version best when I was a little kid. It was on every juke box n 1949-50, but THIS is wonderful singing. Burl IVES was the very first to record it, and his version in high clear tenor voice with simple guitar accompaniment is the most expressive. Johnny Cash sounds very tired in this, and sings consistently flat. Peggy Lee remains one of the great loves of my pop song life, but Riders was just not right for her.
What a butch manly voice. I have the 78rpm version i bought when a schoolboy. I believe that the recording heard here is not the same one!.His last note kinda proves it, man!
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Many have tried but only Vaughn Monroe ever got it right. He owns it!!!
I agree with those that say Vaughn had a definitive version of this song. He sure sang with power and conviction.
The old ones are still the best !!!!!!!!!
Exactly 💯
When I was 8 yrs old and living in Okinawa, this was my favorite song. Vaughn Monroe's voice still brings back memories of a little girl who loved cowboys while living on a small island in the Pacific.
How is Okinawa today? Do you speak Japanese? Nihon go ga hanamemasu ka?
Military brat?
The part that never fails to send chills down my spine is "If you wanna save your soul from Hell a' ridein' on your range then cowboy change your ways today or with us you will ride, tryin to catch the Devil's heard across these endless skies."
Agreed... today's generation has no clue of what they have lost and continue to lose... keeping these great songs alive is all we can do.
I first heard this song 70 years ago and I still get the willies, even today, when ever I hear it.
I love on Vaugh to listen to Vaughn Monroe and ghost riders in the sky since I was a kid. I'm 74 years old now and it's still a terrific song that I listen to very often. I'm still mesmerized by his. voice
I'll be 71 in a few months and it was a long time after I first heard the song that I ever heard a version by anyone by anyone but Vaugh Monroe. I still prefer his version to anyone else's.
74 here too...
@@daveboley8371 I'm a 49 years old french citizen borned in Morrocco and I love this song...the first voice i heard was J. Cash...but Vaugh's voice is better.
Yes, God gave Mr. Monroe a wonderful gift.
Definitive version, great voice, thanks for posting.
Magnificent baritone voice!
Yes, A Very Rich Voice!
@@billobrien5118 He was also a band leader and spokesperson for RCA products--when RCA was RCA.
I’m 12 and I’ve fallen in love with this music
It looks like only 70 somethings like this song as I do myself. Like wayward wind and crazy. Great ld songs
The very first record I purchased. I was 6. I put it in the back of my uncle's Buick and it melted! I was devastated! It's a beginning anchor point for my life's timeline. I'm 72 now.
I grew up listening to that song.
When this song was issued it was about 1948/49 when I was six years old. I would always try to tune our large, wooden, tube type radio for this tune. It was my favorite and I still periodically return to listen again and again. The old westerns were my favorites along with
the radio "serials". We had this old radio up until the mid 1960"s !!! The music is still available - amazing !!!!!.
Excelente gracias, saludos desde Venezuela diciembre 2022.
I first heard this song on my grandma's record player. It was about 1958 & I was 5. His voice is perfect for the song! I have this saved on my phone, along with many others! & I listen to them often.❤
LOVE this version! Old western cowboy touch!
In 1949 I sat in front of our large old wooden tube type radio completely mesmerized while listening to this song. It was my favorite, along with a couple of Roy Rogers songs. Thanks to modern technology, I can pop this up anytime and enjoy my past memories. Of course now I am mature enough to understand its message.
How can anyone not like this song?
An 87 year old patient sang this today while listening to the "best of jazz and swing" music channel they play for the seniors in the hospital. Broke my heart a little...
It does break my heart too that this can be considered a jazz / swing tune.
@@ernestogasulla7763 That floored me, too. I was 8 when I heard it on our old radio, and it stayed in my memory as a magnificent song by a singer without equal.
My favorite song as a child - still LOVE it all these decades later, but only Vaughn Monroe's voice will do! Thanks, Mr. Monroe XXX OOO
The first version I'd heard as a kid and still the finest! Thanks
Love his voice ❤
Beyond doubt, the quintessential version of this song. May I recommend "My Lady Love" by Vaughn to any fans who are just discovering my hero. Kind regards from an 87 year old English fan. January, 2024.
Vaughn was definitely an icon singing and I loved him acting in Westerns also. You have good taste.
Nothing less than a legend.
I loved Vaughn Monroe's voice when I was little. I grew up on Highway 101 in northern California, and "Terror of Highway 101" was the song I first remember hearing by him. This and Burl Ives' versions of "Ghost Riders" are my favorites.
This is awesome. What a singer! I wish contemporary pop and country singers would sing like this. Thank you so much for posting!
I'm 73 now and this was the first song I remember from my youth.
Ray Manzarek said that the Doors were playing around with this tune and that was what led them to Riders on the Storm.
Great
I hear the influence.
Thats why I'm here too!
I watched the movie Singing Guns and he sang 3 songs in that movie WOW WHAT A VOICE that man has. Wish I knew what the name of the movie is where this song was sung.
When I was in the second grade, I fell in love with song and this version of it. Being a careless kid, the 78 rpm's that Mom and Dad got for me had a way of getting broken and the cost of replacements stretched their budget but they came through.
Yes!!!! 78s. Still have my Mom's old ones.
Spooky, substantive and excellent all at the same time. What a well written and performed song!
I NEED to listen this song every few months, but especially around winter when the skies outside are dark and cloudy.
This song come out in the late 1940' and continued through today. I was an elementary school student in the late 40's and early 1950's and I sat in front of our old large wooden tube type radio and tuned in to one of the few channels that were broadcasting. This was my favorite song, along with Tumbling Tumbleweed. This particular version was/is still my favorite and I periodically return to hear it again. Thanks
"our old large wooden tube type radio and tuned in to one of the few channels that were broadcasting" Was there, did that, same kind of radio. Wish I had it now.
Here it is 5 yrs later and I'm hoping this answer gets to you. I was a WWII baby and heard this as a small boy in the late 1940s or early 1950s. The lyric's poetry moved me because Monroe was so understandable in his lyrics. I've remembered this song for 75 yrs now. I still love to hear Monroe's voice. I hope there are still oldsters in another 75 years who hear it and feel the movement of its message.
@@nomadpi1 I must have posted here before now, but wanted to join you in admiring Vaughn Monroe, and assure you that those of us born in that era are still kicking and thankful to have YT to remind us of how good we had life as children, during some scary times for our adults in the family.
Did you ever hear "In My Adobe Hacienda?" Not until I researched all aspects of historical Mexico for my novels did I learn that a hacienda is the entire estate. The HOUSE might be adobe or rock and is called the casa grande, or the Big House.
Ghost riders in the sky has been my favorite since I was a kid I'm 73
I still enjoy returning back to hear this tune. I can still remember as a child riding my broom wooden stick horse around the house while listening to this song.
I am attempting to introduce a my latest adopted son (PS he just turned 40) to music from the 1940 and 50's. Eventually everything that is old is becomes new again.
I always thought Vaughn Monroe was the original singer of this great song. Now I just found out that Stan Jones released it 1948!
I think this is the best version of this song.
All of you viewers here who were young and impressionable around 1956 - 1959, please read my quest and if you can help, I'd be overjoyed. During those years, here in Burke County NC, our local radio station played an introductory theme to the broadcast called Rhythm Rendezvous. That site doesn't display what I hear but it's own into that goes right into music that was contemporary at the time. The theme I heard apparently had orchestration with instruments that throbbed like drums and sounded like galloping horses. It stayed in my head for decades, but is starting to fade due to my sampling of recordings that held promise. I was advised to ask the radio station, which had changed hands and those in charge now claimed not to have any archives of programming in those years.
What a Voice!
the first time I heard Vaughn Monroe sing, was this song on a Disney movie. loved it and his voice ever since.
What movie?
At four-score years of age now, I first heard this song as a small boy. This is the best version. No other singer has had the ability to make it believable. No one. Vaughn Monroe's voice is the perfect tonal pitch for this poetic reading of an old cowboy's spiritual anthem. Even small children understood this poem because Monroe's singing lyrics were so understandable. I hope someone else in another four-score years can also appreciate it.
I was twelve when I first played this on 78 RPM, part of a bunch of records a neighbor gave us as he was moving away. I wore the record out. This song and the flip side "Single Saddle", which is one of the best cowboy songs I've ever heard.
Love this song. Love this version.Thanks.
The Best Version IMHO
the voice in perfect sinc with the story,goose bumps
What a voice. What a song. Thanks for posting
I love this song. I remember hearing it on the radio.
Ol' Leather Lungs could sure belt them out. Take a look at his other songs too, "Dance Ballarina", "Racing with the Moon", "Let it snow" is also one of my favorites of his.
The imagry his voice mixed with the haunting pained ghostly chorus conjured such terrifying images for me as a child but I loved it! This music touches the soul..
There are other good singers who have done this song proud, but Vaugh Monroe has the best voice for this one. IMHO
Many of the posts here echo my experience in the early days, listening to our radio, and loving Vaughn Monroe. I still like THIS version better than any of the many I've sampled since then.
This is the best version
Monroe had an immediately recognizable voice + being my favorite male big band male singer of his time & this along with Johnny Cash are the greatest performances of this my #1 western song of all although I am no expert when it comes to these type of music.
When I was 3 years old, my grandmom showed me this song, I fell in love with it. Today music sucks
Great singer and good actor
This was the first time (2022) that I heard the original. The version I had heard was J. Cash. It is nice to hear it being sung. I figure he covered it but didn’t know who did the original.
When l retired , l bought a Fender Jazz bass, and this was the first tune l could thump out. Fifty years is a long time to wait, but first things first. Still thumping out tunes from my early years.😁😁😁😁
No doubt about it this version is the best ominous and haunting
My mom had a 1949 78RPM of this. First song I ever heard. Have loved it ever since.
The best version great voice
thanks xxxxxx
A melhor voz. Vaughn Monroe !
Love how the first picture you see is Marston lol
OH, to have a voice like that!!! -Jeep-USN.Ret.-
Always loved Vaughan Monroe’s voice
This song came out toward the end of 1948 and the next year V. Monroe recorded it and made it a real hit. I listened to it on our old large wooden console tube type radio. It was one of my favorites. It has almost been 65+ years and I still enjoy it. Thanks
TYVM, dsfc!!!! Those first 4 letters stand for "Thank You Very Much." For including the lyrics. Nice photographs, too.
I keep a radio in my room and I have it on a local AM station that plays music from the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's. This song scared the crap out of me when I was younger, especially when it came on at 3 A.M., that was the worst. Anyone else?
WHAT A VOICE SO FULL AND THROUGH VOCAL TONE WANTED BY MANY OTHERS. SIMPLY ENJOYABLE AND FULLFILLING FEELING..
Happy birthday to Vaughan Monroe his birth verse is Matthew 10:7 rest in Heaven Blessings and hugs 🤗💞😂💘💘❤️🤗💞🤗🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏!
Someone gave me a 78-rpm copy of this when I was a kid. That copy's long gone but I found a replacement 78 at a flea market some years ago. My son still loves it today.
I think this is the best version of "Ghost Riders." Vaughn Monroe had a wonderful voice -- with sort of a spooky quality here. Of course, I remember all the air play "Black Leather Jacket and Motorcycle Boots (Terror of Highway 101)" very well, too ( I grew up in small towns on that highway)!
The song that inspired The Doors to make Riders on the Storm !
Amazing voice!
The first and still the best...
such beautiful comments on an evergreen cowboy song...vaughn monroe forever!!!
The "Santa Compaña" version western.
Excellent video. Cowboy Gospel at its best.
The #1 song on the day I was born. 5/20/49
Why are linking your personal information
Russ Dee, your comment made me look up what song was number one on my birth date, it was one of my favorites, Frankie Laine's "That Lucky Old Sun." I never knew that, but I really do love the song, Ghost Riders too.
Love Vaughn Monroe
best version bar none
Got the 78...this is most deffinately the best version of this song..!!!.
hearing this on the radio as a child graves me chill bumps. I would run out of the room in fear. scary song
brings goosebumps!
Fantastic! Thanks for the U/L. brings back very good memories.
still the best version
This song always made me feel scared. Like ghost stories my mom used to tell us. I have a very old CD with this on it.
Ghost Riders in the Sky was one of the 45's on a table next to my parent's record player in the 50's. Sugartime by the Mcguire Sisters and Volare by Domenico Modugno were other favorites. Today, unfortunately, there is a wide assortment of crap and very little music
My favorite recording of this song, with the Sons of the Pioneers backing up the great Vaughn Monroe! After I heard this years ago I went to Amazon and purchased 'The Very Best of Vaughn Monroe.' 20 songs including 'Racing With the Moon' (Vaughan's Theme). I also really liked 'When the Lights Go On Again (All Over the World).' A song about England and Europe during WWII and when the blackout would finally end and the lights would go on again. And of course the song that was at the very end of the movie 'Die Hard,' Vaughn's great version of 'Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!' 9 of the 20 songs hit #1, including 'Riders in the Sky,' and 7 more were in the Top Ten!
Sons of the Pioneers had a 15 mins programme on Radio Luxembourg way, way back!
A never ending battle, for they never catch the #Devils herd. #RodSerling mentioned, you can catch a Devil, but, you can't keep him for long.
Stanley Kubrick's photos for Look Magazine August 16, 1949 brought me here
This is one of those songs I remember from childhood, Billy Vaughn's Shifting "Whispering Sands" being another one, that has stayed in my memory banks for 60 plus years. You have done a very nice video to accompany the song and the lyrics are special to read. This is my favorite of all the recordings. Thanks for this nice video.
ettab47, I agree with all that you have said...though I might be your Senior by some years, I remember Monroe and his songs from that era. And I too want to say thanks for this nice video.
The song always sends a shiver down my spine if sung by Billy Vaughn, Johnny Cash or Burl ives.
The Batman Batman, you are surely not "Blind as a Bat"; you are so right...I love those guys too!
wesley hill That shows you have taste.
The Batman That's probably the nicest words ever directed to me....my wife has always said that I was "Tasteless"; no pun intended! But what does she know? She's just a "durl"; a word I invented to describe the "fairer sex". The truth is; men are more romantic than women!* Ergo we know good music when we hear it.....
*It's a fact....Sociologists have deigned that we guys are more "Romantic"!
far better than the Burl Ives version
Got my dads original vinyl of this song. Brilliant ❤️
Tou are right Adolph, it is the very best !!!
nice rendition
Wish I lived back then
This version is the best. Edit - This is only my opinion.
Adolph Oliver Bush Along side the one sung by Johnny Cash.
Ah, man, I posited an opinion, and I shouldn't have done that. I should have written "My FAVORITE is Vaughn Monroe's..."
Peace, everyone.
well i think this one is the best version.so strong voice.
+Adolph Oliver Bush AGREED!
Certainly the best VOICE ever to record this. I knew Frankie Laine's haunting, clear-voiced version best when I was a little kid. It was on every juke box n 1949-50, but THIS is wonderful singing. Burl IVES was the very first to record it, and his version in high clear tenor voice with simple guitar accompaniment is the most expressive. Johnny Cash sounds very tired in this, and sings consistently flat. Peggy Lee remains one of the great loves of my pop song life, but Riders was just not right for her.
Awesome!
Still listening in 2017.
What a butch manly voice. I have the 78rpm version i bought when a schoolboy. I believe that the recording heard here is not the same one!.His last note kinda proves it, man!
I am still waiting, folks.