Rawhide (song)

"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, the western television series that ran on CBS from 1959 to 1966. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.^[1]

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

Notable covers

Frankie Laine (performed again with Jimmy Carroll and his orchestra). This version was used in 2013 in an advertisement for Google Chrome.
Liza Minnelli
Link Wray
Big John Bates
Riders in the Sky
The Ventures
Dead Kennedys^[2]
The Blues Brothers (on the soundtrack to their eponymous film)
101 Strings Orchestra
Greenbriar Boys
Sublime
The Jackson 5
The Meteors
The Men They Couldn't Hang
Dezperadoz (The legend and the truth album, 2006)
Litfiba (Pirata live album, 1989)
Oingo Boingo
Jan Rot translated the song in Dutch as "Yippieyayee" for the album An + Jan gaan landelijk, 2008
Johnny Western
Happy Feet Two
Johnny Cash
The New Zealand Railways Department used a cover of the song in a 1978 television advertisement for its freight services.^[3]^[4]
Nassim (full name Nassim Ait-Kaci) recorded an instrumental version for the soundtrack of Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.
Ensiferum^[5]

^ Western Writers of America (2010). "The Top 100 Western Songs". American Cowboy. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ Video on YouTube
^ "New Zealand Railways: "Rolling, rolling, rolling, rail freight" advertisement". The New Zealand Film Archive. Retrieved 1 April 2013..
^ Video on YouTube
^ "Ensiferum "One Man Army"".

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