O.K. Stan Jones wrote it, must have sang it. But did not record it.....I played an Ives album as a kid. This was not on it though.
Howdy Relevent,
I pulled up my archive, You're right of course,
about Stan Jones, being the songwriter. He was a
Park Ranger, who was entertaining some movie stars,
who were on location, filming a Glen Ford Western Movie.
Someone recognized that he was writing Great Songs,
and so then they took him out to Hollywood, where
he struck gold...
The original title was "Riders In The Sky".
The song was recorded by Vaughn Monroe,
and became a "Million Seller". The first song
for Stan Jones, was a million seller...
... I was thinking however, about Gene Autry.
He recorded and sang the song with "Ghost" added
to the "Title" and soundtrack in his movie, with
Republic Productions, also in 1949, and did
very well with it...
Just as he did quite well, was very popular with
all of his movies, and songs back then...
So with my careful wording, "the first
Country Western Music artist", I was
right there too. I almost added the
word Country Western Music "Actor",
when I wrote the Clue, but thought
it would be too much of a give away,
tho' would have cinched it...
I still like The Outlaws Ghostly Rendition tho', the best, ... Crosse
